One critical issue of this election season centers on the idea that in a democracy, there is some kind of agreement between the People and the Government, an agreement to which both parties are accountable. The American Government hasn’t been very accountable to its People (or objective reality, for that matter) ever since the democratic process was hijacked in 2000 from voters Florida and at the expense of everyone.
Now, Democratic super delegates are positioned to hijack the democratic process from their own party. In response, Agit-Pop Communications has launched the first in what will hopefully be a series of hip and fact-dense videos on the super delegate problem…
It may seem like a stretch to suggest that a coup-de-tat within the Democratic Party would be as bad as the theft of the Presidency in 2000. That’s certainly farther than Agit-Prop takes the "super delegate Issue" in this slick video. But one sad truth of the matter is that we no longer talk about fact that the election of 2000 was stolen because we understand that the rules of the game allowed for the theft. And it is exactly the same kind of idiotic rules that stand to erase the last traces of democratic electoral accountability from American political life now in 2008.
The Super delegates amount to 2008’s version of the US Senate in 2000. The rules in 2000 said that so long as Senators were o.k. with democracy being stolen in Florida, the concerns of Representatives were unimportant. The Democratic Party’s rules let super delegates cast their powerful votes irrespective of the democratically expressed will of their constituents within the party. In short, the concerns of voters will once again be rendered wholly meaningless, if the super delegates do what Hillary Rodham can only be hoping for.
What she is no doubt hoping for is the super delegates’ complicity in hijacking the democratic process from the Democratic Party. To become the party’s nominee, she needs the super delegates to show that the party doesn’t care any more about the democratic process than the Supreme Court, the Senate, or the thieves in Florida cared in 2000.
For a long time now the Democratic Party has been trying to win by beating the Republican Party at its own game. Americans have reason now, more than ever, to suspect that the Democratic Party isn’t a real alternative to the thieves and charlatans that hijacked the American Government eight years ago. Now, with Hillary Rodham’s continued campaigning in defiance of the majority of Democratic voters, and with so many of the super delegates complicit by not acting to end the charade before it can become reality, the Democratic Party may expose itself as a maser of the means of Republican theft and chicanery as well.
No American alive today is likely to outlive the blemished reputation that comes along with the Bush presidency. Starting with the theft of the government from the People, the American legacy and human history have been marred. Democrats like to think that it will mean something for the Democratic Party to "take back" the White House this fall. But that can be so if a Democrat wins the White House democratically. If the Super delegates make themselves Hillary’s cronies, if they betray the democratic process as it was betrayed in 2000 by Katherine Harris, the Supreme Court, and the Senate, it will be hard to believe that "democracy in America" means much of anything at the Federal level.
Check out whitehouserocks.com for more info on the video, and to sign a petition for super delegate accountability.
How utterly preposterous to suggest that longstanding rules of the Democratic party that have been around since George McGovern should all of a sudden be villified and those undecided super delegates agressively intimidated to influence the outcome of an election. Why do super delegates exist? Because McGovern lost the 1972 election to Nixon by a staggering 520-17 electoral votes. The superdelegates are "supposed to vote their conscience" and do what they think is in the best interest of the Democratic party and the country. They are NOT supposed to blindly follow the popular vote or the delegate count.
Should the super delegates ignore the following (from Paul Krugman in the New York Times)
"In Florida, in particular, the rolling estimate produced by the professionals at Pollster.com shows Mr. McCain running substantially ahead of Mr. Obama, even as he runs significantly behind Mrs. Clinton. Ohio also looks problematic, and Pennsylvania looks closer than it should. It’s true that head-to-head polls five months before the general election have a poor track record. But they certainly give reason to worry.
The point is that Mr. Obama may need those disgruntled Clinton supporters, lest he manage to lose in what ought to be a banner Democratic year. So what should Mr. Obama and his supporters do?
Most immediately, they should realize that the continuing demonization of Mrs. Clinton serves nobody except Mr. McCain. One more trumped-up scandal won’t persuade the millions of voters who stuck with Mrs. Clinton despite incessant attacks on her character that she really was evil all along. But it might incline a few more of them to stay home in November."