Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Super-Delegates Declare Winner Through Media

[hellofromreddit]

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/07/perfect-end-to-democratic-primary-anonymous-super-delegates-declare-winner-through-media/

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This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary. The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identity the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of super-delegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter.
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It does make charges of corruption and rigging that much stickier, further weakening Clinton before the GE. Smooth move.

[larkrake]

1. a new age begins

[LexVegas]

2. First primary, huh?

[hellofromreddit]

7. What do you expect to accomplish with childish posts like that?

[LexVegas]

10. I take that as a yes. nt

[NurseJackie]

11. Nailed it!

[hellofromreddit]

13. Not my first. Now what were you expecting to accomplish?

[rateyes]

27. Hey, let them gloat. It just makes it that much

Harder to "get every vote."

[Jackilope]

3. The icing on the Coronation Cake is ...

... that the convention is sponsored by Comcast.

No need being suble anymore on how and what runs things in USA.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. Nailed it!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[George II]

4. Superdelegates are not anonymous - they're all known, you can find the full list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2016

You call that "anonymous"?

[TwilightZone]

6. Jinx!

Seconds, George. Mere seconds. lol

[George II]

9. Sorry!!

[hellofromreddit]

12. The event that they say clinched the nomination for Clinton was effectively anonymous.

AP did not list the results of their polling of the supers.

[George II]

19. You can find the list on their website and other sources. The issued a release....

....pointless to list all 571 names in that release.

[hellofromreddit]

23. It is not pointless. If they're going to declare all of the primary voting today pointless

it seems we ought to at least know who got the golden ticket.

[Vattel]

15. Can you read? The names of the ones who have just decided to vote for Clinton were not revealed.

They are anonymous in that sense.

[TwilightZone]

5. They're not anonymous.

Lists are publicly available.

[Vattel]

17. see post 15 but skip the rude part.

[arely staircase]

8. Now we take the fight to Trump and the GOP. Bernie will be HRC'S most powerful surrogate

Nothing can stop us now.

[joshcryer]

16. "likely to be the legitimately chosen winner"

GG is such a two faced writer it's utterly disgusting.

[joshcryer]

18. "she just got more votes. There’s no denying that."

GG is human excrement.

[Orsino]

20. That's what an Establishment is for. n/t

[joshcryer]

21. "status-quo-perpetuating, multi-millionaire militarist"

How's the book sales going? GG. Perpetrator of the survallance state, using Snowden for your own gain, after having written support for Bush's Iraq War, never-mind the nasty defense of a rapist, and illegal activities involving a white supremacist.

[libdem4life]

24. Well, this is a bit inconvenient. But I've wondered about some of these

screen names. So Alpha Male and visions of grandeur to the extreme...mostly with prominent Hs. Really reminds me of Trump. Class or no class...pretty much cut from the same cloth, IMO.

Years ago we used to have a saying...the louder you declare your personal glory, the less you believe in its reality...or something like that.

[pmorlan1]

28. LOL

No wonder you are a Clinton supporter. What total drivel.

[KeepItReal]

22. It really is a fitting way to end this primary.

Thanks for the post.

[senz]

25. Thank God someone is coming out and saying it. Should be shouted from the rooftops.

[warrprayer]

26. Smooth move

Exlax.

[Maedhros]

29. Maybe it's starting to sink in that Democrats do not have liberals/progressives best interests

at heart or in mind?

Look at the lengths they went to this primary season to destroy Sanders and belittle his supporters.

Why do they continue to get our votes and our support?