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In reply to the discussion: Democrats delay change to convention superdelegates [View all]Sophia4
(3,515 posts)voting process is the very definition of corrupt - of spoilage in the system.
The system is supposed to be pure, that is democratic, one vote, one person, and the "leadership" of the Democratic Party inserts itself into the one vote, one person process and places its thumbs, that is, its super delegates, into the mass of elected delegates that reflect the election of the voters, in order to dirty or corrupt the process of electing the candidates.
If you don't like the way I use the word "corrupt," then from now on I will simply use the words, dirty, or manipulate or filthy, or unfair, or some other word. Corrupt means to make a process or a thing dirty, to undermine its purity, its cleanliness, its meaning, to make it filthy or unfair. That is why money is viewed as corrupting politics. That is why favoritism or manipulating an election so that a favored or preferred candidate wins is corruption.
I can only believe that a person would object to my use of the word corruption if they have not read much.
Here is a whole web-page on the meaning of corruption.
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/corruption
Choose any word there.
And somewhere behind the choice of super delegates, someone profits. Trust me on that. The super delegate may be a wonderful, pure, sin-free individual. But someone's job or well being relies on getting the candidate that dependent person wants and if that person is helping to choose or choosing the super delegate then money is a factor in the choice.
But money does not have to be directly involved for something to be corrupt. Corruption in the system can exist if choosing a particular super delegate means that one candidate's staff will be paid while another candidate's staff will not. It can also be there if it means that one voter's candidate will not be on the ballot but another will and the reason for the absence of the one candidate and the naming of the other on the ballot is some impurity in the system like a super delegate.
Super delegates make the Democratic Party look terrible. They are just as much a form of corruption as is paying someone to fix the outcome of an election. There purpose is to fix the outcome of elections even if they do not actually do it as far as we know. That is why the institution is corrupt.