Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates

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[ameribbean expat]

Democrats voted Saturday to drastically scale back the controversial superdelegate system that gives elected officials and party insiders an outsize say in the party’s presidential nominating process, delivering a significant victory for Bernie Sanders and his supporters ahead of 2020.

[aomagrat]

KAGA!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga

[McGavin999]

What you have to worry about is all the dummies who don’t realize what they are playing with

[RainMan]

Actually, they think a 10W speaker on an amp that can be turned to volume 20 is louder and has better fidelity than an 80W speaker on amp that can be turned to volume 10

[yesthatjallen]

Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates until they're needed again.

[Repeal 16-17]

Isn’t this undoing changes made 40 years ago to prevent another McGovern from being nominated?

For the most part and hopefully it leads to another McGovern (Sanders?).

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article ameribbean expat. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Democrats Voted To Strip Power From Superdelegates"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Regardless what Democrats do with constitutionally undefined superdelegates, it remains that the Founding States never expressly constitutionally gave ordinary voters the specific power to elect the president.

In other words, the 12th Amendment presidential election process has been badly corrupted by the anti-constitutional republic political parties imo.

More specifically, uniparty Democrats and RINOs fight over which party gets to control state powers and state revenues that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress steals from the states, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• "... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphasis added]." —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe (See middle of third column.)

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Note that one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds to control an aspect of domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (1.8.7).

In other words, if a given federal domestic spending program is not reasonably related to the mail service, then patriots can bet that the program is unconstitutional and be right probably most of the time.

So the key question regarding federal domestic policy is how many political parties does it take to run the mail service?

I say none, no political parties need to run the mail service.

In fact, when the states wise up and repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the repeal amendment needs a provision that prohibits political party support of federal elected officials imo.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he making a mistake."

This is a mistake by Democrats. The whole point of the superdelegate system was to prevent another George McGovern nomination.

[Flaming Conservative]

Bernie will be 78 in 2020. And his protege Occasionally-Corked, will be just 30 years old -— 8(, so hopefully, he’s got someone else just as unelectable, in mind.

[Rebelbase]

Bernie 2020 will be the classic battle Royale between socialist/capitalist.

Trump will destroy him.

[Repeal 16-17]

In other words, the 12th Amendment presidential election process has been badly corrupted by the anti-constitutional republic political parties imo.

The 12th Amendment was an outgrowth of the political parties. The presidential tickets destabilized the original Electoral College voting procedures (Article II, Section 1, Clause 3).

I, of course, agree with everything you said about the 17th Amendment. The States back then were very stupid.

[HamiltonJay]

Of course they did... you can’t be godlike, as long as God exists

[faithhopecharity]

Bernie the Red won’t be the D candidate (too damned old and he looks it too)

but nevertheless, dumping the rigged DNC vote system is a big step forward for the D party

now if they can only break free of SorozNazi and the foreign IslamoNazi dictatorships’ control! ($$)

[Amendment10]

"The 12th Amendment was an outgrowth of the political parties. The presidential tickets destabilized the original Electoral College voting procedures (Article II, Section 1, Clause 3)."

I agree with you to an extent.

But it remains that much of 12A is being wrongly ignored.

[Ticonderoga34]

That would effectively end any chance Hillary might think she would have in 2020. Some big donors have been signaling to her since election night that that (2016) was her final chance.

I was thinking the same thing. This tells me that the Clintons don't have the clout with the DNC that they used to.

BTW, haven't heard much from Hillary lately. Not that I'm complaining.

[Drew68]

Give them some credit. They’re setting up a nomination process that will let Democrat voters do in the future what Republican voters did in 2016: nominate a presidential candidate who isn’t a paid stooge of Wall Street and foreign governments.

Exactly. When you think about it, Sanders and Trump voters have more in common with each other than they do with the mainstream candidates that their respective parties ran.

Anyhow, there's some entertaining fighting going on over this at DU. Kinda wish I still had my troll accounts.

[Rennes Templar]

Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez 2020!

(Or as she's otherwise known as, Occasional Cortex)

[Repeal 16-17]

Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez 2020!

Ocasio-Cortez is ineligible (too young). How about Sanders/Warren?

[Alberta's Child]

Bernie Sanders looks old enough to be Donald Trump’s father. LOL.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL — right.

[SaveFerris]

[Occasionally-Corked]

I like it.