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In reply to the discussion: Sanders-backed DNC plan sparks superdelegate revolt [View all]Gothmog
(144,848 posts)I am sorry that you do not understand the proposal that is being objected to and which is the subject of this thread. Maybe you should consider reading up on what is going on in the real world. The proposal that has been objected to in this thread strips members of the CBC and other super delegates of their right to vote on the first ballot. Taking away one's right to vote is called disenfranchisement in the real world. Literally these super delegates and members of the CBC will not have the right to vote. The right to vote really is the subject of this thread.
Again, the only people pushing this proposal are sanders and his supporters. sanders' feelings were badly hurt because the members of congress who knew him rejected and refused to support him. I am sorry that sanders' feelings were hurt but we should not change the system just to make sanders happy. I really do not care about sanders' feelings
As for flipping my vote, I am a man of my word. I met and liked Hillary Clinton and felt that she was by far the most qualified person. I was a Hillraiser and a member of the Victory Counsel program and the lawyers finance committee. It would take a great deal to convince me that she was not the best candidate.
At the National Convention, I was pressured by sanders delegates to change my vote including having my daughter attacked by these chosen representatives of the sanders campaign and declined. I have a hard time forgiving the sanders delegates who called my daughter the c-word but evidently that is an acceptable tactic for the sanders campaign as was booing Congressman John Lewis. I did stop one of my fellow Clinton delegates from slugging a sanders delegate at the Texas convention breakfast where the sanders team demanded that we condemn Hillary Clinton and vote for sanders.
I would not change my vote unless it was in the best interest of the party. I do not believe in magic and sanders was not viable in the real world without a magical voter revolution. None of sanders' proposals could be adopted in the real world without the aid of a magical voter revolution where millions or billions or trillions of new voters rose up to demand that the GOP be reasonable. If magic actually worked in the real world and if millions or billions or trillions of new voters did rise up due to Sanders, then I might change my mind. Again, the real world is nice place but magic does not work. Sanders was not viable in the real world without a magical voter revolution.
BTW, could you clarify how many new voters were required for the sanders magical voter revolution. Did this magical voter revolution require millions or billions or trillions of new voters. Sanders was never clear on this.