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Really?
Was this evening news, or Nickleodeon ?
The irony is too much to bear… Our country has the gall to look at Pakistan and question whether democratic fair and free elections are taking place there while here at home the media and (self ascribed) elites of the “establishment†have foisted upon one party’s people a candidate who does not even carry a majority and the other party “elites†may well (via superdelegates) foist their will upon their people. If ever we needed a third party candidate it is NOW!!!
Our country was never intended to be a democracy but rather a republic. Our Founding Fathers mostly despised democracy. The ’super delegate’ system shouldn’t come as a surprise. Look at our Electoral College. Heck, even U.S. senators originally were not popularly elected until the 17th Amendment changed the Constitution.
If you want a true democracy, study ancient Athens. It fell apart when the choices were made by the people. The poor farmers who ruined that city-state’s achivements are similar to the morons voting today due of the “Motor Voter” laws and other similar legislation and end up voting for the glittering generalities of Barack Obama, an empty suit at best.
Be careful, America, for what you wish for.
A couple mistakes in the story. According to this story in Politco:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8583.html
even the ‘pledged’ delegates can vote any way they want.
Also, the Supreme Court did not ‘decide’ the 2000 election, it merely stopped the selective recount Gore wanted. If Gore had pushed to recount the entire state of Florida, the Supreme Court would not have intervened, but he was just recounting 4 heavily Democrat counties. The Supreme Court said this was unfair, and it was.
What’s the big problem with a democracy? Why is a republican system better?
Protection of individual life, liberty, and property against the dictatorship of the majority and its whims.
What a great idea the founders of the USA had. How unfortunate its perversion.
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This is all well and good; but why the discrepancy in total delegates being collected for the dems, 2025; and the for reps, like 1500 or so. Is it important?
Please explain historical and political forces that have shaped each party’s delegate makeup in such different sizes.
Thank you.
I was born in Oregon in 1950, kept my grandaddies happy till I switched in 1992 to dem. Have flirted with Indeps.
Neither action nor rhetoric are so speedy making their way out here to PNW (God’s country) and some of that’s ok. waste reduction and all. But you’ve got people of good soul here in this state, committing love and sweat and time and shared resources, willing to sacrifice much of what the ‘world’ holds dear, to create communities of loving sanity. in 3-D reality of homes and gardens and shops and studios and schools, and lively nights of music and dance and howlin’ and all. Who will find the voice of our hearts and form them into message; who will then hear us, respect us at their tables, trust our advice from the hearts made supple through our lives’ journeys to wisdom?
If, it is said, Oregon’s primary is too late to matter, what then? Can we find a voice and give it form that will bloom from of Oregon and play out there on the ‘national stage’?