What Democracy Means to The "Democratic" Party Today

What Democracy Means to the “Democratic” Party Today

The central concept of democracy is voting where each voter gets one vote and each vote has the same weight.

In 2016, Bernie Saunders had accumulated enough votes during the state’s primaries to ensure that he would be nominated at the Democratic Party’s Convention. However, the party leadership wanted Hillery to be the nominee and invoked the concept of “Super Delegates”; prominent Democrats who are at the convention based on their position within the party, state and national office holders etc. These super delegates were able to arrange for the nomination of Hillery Clinton over Saunders. It was more complicated than that, but that is pretty much what happened . . .Saunders was out and Clinton was in.

In 2020, It looked as though Joe Biden might not get enough primary delegates and the party leadership arranged for the other candidates to drop out. Kamalah Harris was one of them.

Now, in 2024, t President Biden who was a the presumptive nominee and faced no primary voters. When it became obvious that he would lose in the general election, the party leadership somehow compelled him to simply drop out of the race. VP Harris was selected to replace Biden by the party leadership and was installed as the nominee before the convention had even assembled to vote . . . again, short circuiting the central feature of a democracy, voting.

That is where the “Democratic” Party stands on the central principle of any democracy.

Except, we are a Republic - and for good reason. Which is why they keep trying to push the same clap-trap and history denialism and revisionism.

Still obsessed with the Democratic Party. It's really sad.

What Democracy Means to the “Democratic” Party Today

The central concept of democracy is voting where each voter gets one vote and each vote has the same weight. Originally Posted by ICU 812

This isn’t technically true, each vote doesn’t actually have the same weight. Interesting graphic of the different states and their impact on presidential elections, weighted on electoral votes vs population. (The red and blue don’t represent the current election, I believe it was modeled after 2016 but the impact of the particular state is still accurate, disregarding if a state may have lost or gained any EVs since then)