Democracy, A Messy Business
Another couple of primaries have gone by the boards and the primary season that we were told would likely end in February with a clear nominee presumptive drags on. The only thing clear to me is that the system is "broke" and nobody knows how to fix it. The whole delegate idea is a bad one, a relic of the days when the pols picked the candidate in smoke-filled lung cancer-friendly rooms. Add to it the "super delegates" and you have the electoral college system that everyone compains about gone whacko. Why is there such an aversion to one man one vote? Count the votes in each state, add them all up, and bingo, a winning candidate. Makes sense to me.
posted by John M Crowther @ 6:51 AM
2 Comments:
That was your first mistake, John C. What you proposed: one person, one vote makes too much sense. Way too easy! So tired of people shouting that Hillary should get out of the race. Why? She has a right to run until the very end and these super dopers are the most stupid idea of any party. Also getting to rather resent the fact that the Dem. are saying that blacks and white educated people are for Obama; poor white and blue collar workers are voting for Hillary. Nothing wrong with being a blue collar worker, many of whom are well educated. Besides, seems as if all these so called experts have forgotten about Florida and Michigan, if I lived in one of these states, I would be livid!
By the way, good cartoon today.
The dirty little secret of course is that those in power only wish to give the “impression” of a democratic process where in truth those in the know know that when push comes to shove they can do what the hell they want to do. This primary, the past elections only prove the farce we live in day to day. Obama must convince the supers that he really is the preferred candidate of the independent swing voters –-the so-called Reagan Democrats who seem to find a white woman a more sympathetic choice that an idealistic black man. Will the system ever change? I doubt it. Very few who run it really believe in the values if a real democracy. But then again, did our founding fathers?
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