Actually, Super Delegates are a model of what the Democrat Party wants to bring to the Federal Government. They would like a permanent class of experts to control the Senate and the House, because you never know, what those pesky voters are liable to do. They could actually vote in Republicans, that's how stupid the voters are.
Actually, this describes very well the attitude of both major parties, all of the media, all of the lobbyists, and the entire permanent government represented by the civil service and the NGOs (we call them foundations here).
They all HATE, HATE, HATE elections, the very idea that one of them (or all of them) could lose the best job any of them will ever have over the uninformed actions of a bunch of rednecks and yahoos.
So, collectively, they do everything they can to control the elections they cannot (yet) prevent.
The People of the United States have ENORMOUS latent power, as much as the monarch in England - and almost as little chance of using it.
It is a bitter disappointment to me that the high water mark of the red-white-blue people power revolution came in 1994, and that we will not see such again in our lifetimes.
This farce of a "process" to select two loser candidates eleven months before OUR election, so that the maximum amount of advertising dollars can be extracted from the "two party system" while the people are deprived of any meaningful choice, again, is near collapse.
My hope is that there will be four or more candidates this year and that the President will be elected by the People's House, while the media melts down over the phony "Constitutional Crisis".
This would serve the function of a "Fully Informed Electorate Act", to teach our people how much power they really have.
Until the present rigged game is overthrown, nothing can change.
McGovern. And it's interesting that he was the first nominee after the Dems implemented affirmative action for their delegates after the Chicago riots.