2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bill Press just said, as the former Chairman of the California Democratic Party, I think Bernie wins [View all]BainsBane
(53,026 posts)as well as Montana. But he trails hugely in California and the demographics there do not favor him. The voting patterns in this election are clear. Polls show Bernie trailing Clinton by double digits in California--the same polls that Bernie insists matter more than the votes of actual citizens because they show him doing better against Trump than Clinton does. But the fact he is doesn't have a better chance of beating Trump because is not and will not be the nominee. Super delegates are not going to fulfil Bernie's dreams by overturning the results of democratic elections and impose him in office against the will of the electorate.
There is nothing that signals contempt for the rights of American citizens more than a determination to strip them of their ability to chose their elected officials by the ballot box.
Another point. Clinton won the California primary in 2008 and she at no point trailed in earned delegates by anywhere near what Bernie does now. She still didn't win the nomination. Nor did she argue that she should be able to overturn the results of existing elections because she and her voters were just more important than the rest of Americans. She instead conceded and backed Barack Obama. Bernie instead argues that my vote, the votes of over 12 million Americans, don't really matter in comparison to corporate polls that show him doing better against Trump, even though those same polls show Clinton kicking Trump's ass. That people support his efforts to subvert the people's rights to select their nominee by the ballot box and to nullify the votes of the Democratic electorate--especially people of color, the most loyal Democratic voting groups, who also support Clinton rather than Sanders--tell me the singular goal is now and has always been undermining the rights of the majority.