The Democrat Party may well have to change its name. With the attention being given to the issue of “super delegates”, it seems clear that the party has little if any interest in Democracy. According to John Hopwood (Associated Content, February 7, 2008):
“Super delegates were created by the Democratic Party in 1980,…The genesis of the creation of super delegates was a desire to dampen down the democracy that was infused in the Democratic Party as a result of the bruising 1968 political convention in
If Democracy doesn’t get Democrats what they want, they have an alternative. Just place some key political hacks in the position of making decisions about nominees. It is that simple. Why didn’t the Republicans think of that?
Maybe because they aren’t fascists.
