Cobalt6065 has it exactly right.
This year, the Democrats went out and selected their standard-bearer through a singularly undemocratic process, one where party hacks — who they euphemistically call “superdelegates” — hold the whip hand in Denver.
Moreover, it cannot be emphasized enough that it is a process entirely of their own creation. They wrote the script and the rules.
It was their plan.
And we know how Democrats are so fond of reviling any Administration, or for that matter, any significant organization that fails to demonstrate that all along they had a virtually perfect plan in place, regardless of unforseen circumstances! Think FEMA, the military, oil companies . . .
Yet, in the implementation phase of their disasterous and undemocratic candidate selection plan this year, the Democrats also managed to disenfranchise the voters of both Florida and Michigan, and to thereby render meaningless the Democrat primary vote in those two key states — all because those two states did not want to go along with the timing of the process being implemented by “central planning!”
“Off with their heads!” declared Howard Dean. No one objected. In fact, everyone agreed. But Hillary feigned, and then quietly “forgot’ to take her name off the ballots.
And in the end, the Democrats also managed to publicly reveal what may become a significant tear in their party fabric. At the very least, it is a decrement threatening to sunder the unity of purpose underscoring the “coalition” of interest groups. Each has paid it’s dues, and they all want their slice of power, their piece of the action this year.
And they want it now.
But there is only one good-sized slice. So, someone is going to bed hungry for power.
