In a November 10, 2017 op-ed piece for Politico Magazine, titled “How to Fix the Democratic Party,” Bernie Sanders writes perceptively about what needs to be improved with the Democratic Party.
Standing out is his comment about the Democratic presidential nomination system.
“First, it is absurd that the Democratic Party now gives over 700 superdelegates—almost one-third the number a presidential candidate needs to win the nomination—the power to control the nominating process and ignore the will of voters.”
Yes—I agree. But, when describing this, I would use the word undemocratic.
The reason is because these superdelegates are also human beings who are also private citizens. Thanks to their role in the Democratic Party presidential nomination process, they get to vote more than once. As one who has participated voting in Democratic presidential primaries, from my home state Michigan, for each time I have participated I have been allowed just one vote. So, I have reached the conclusion that superdelegates should go.
I appreciate that the junior United States senator from Vermont mentioned superdelegates.
I will not be quoting anything more from this piece by Bernie Sanders.
I wasn’t particularly moved by enough of what he had written.
Go ahead and read it. You will understand why. (It has to do with what was not mentioned.)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/10/bernie-sanders-how-to-fix-democratic-party-215813
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