BS.. "Here's a radical idea: The person with the most votes should be the Democratic nominee"

[The Magistrate]

20. You Provide A Poor Imitation Of A Fool, Sir

I shall do you the courtesy of not taking it seriously, but of instead continuing to believe you capable of understanding the difference between the actual meaning of a statement in context, and the meaning which, stripped out of the context in which it was made, a statement can be made to appear to convey.

Sanders made that statement in support of the proposition that he, with a minority of total delegates, should be granted the nomination even though a great majority of the Party's voters and delegates did not want him to have it. For extra spice, he pitched this stand for his minority share to prevail as a defense of democracy and enactment of the people's will.

In the present context where Mr. Biden will have a solid majority of delegates on the first ballot, Sanders statement is mere noise, on a par with announcing he agrees the sun should rise in the east every morning. There is no doubt the majority prevails, and no one need rise to declaim in support of that. Even Sanders recognizes, evidently, the pointless futility of demanding the candidate with the smallest share of delegates should be granted the nomination.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."