The story begins with Nancy Pelosi's statement that the people, not super delegates, should decide the outcome of the Obama/Clinton race. No. Wait. It begins with Hillary Clinton's supporters threatening members of Congress. That's why MoveOn has emailed its members.
This is pretty outrageous: A group of Clinton-supporting big Democratic donors are threatening to stop supporting Democrats in Congress because Nancy Pelosi said that the people, not the superdelegates, should decide the presidential nomination.
It's the worst kind of insider politics — billionaires bullying our elected leaders into ignoring the will of the voters.
But when we all pool our resources, together we're stronger than the fat cats. So let's tell Nancy Pelosi that if she keeps standing up for regular Americans, thousands of us will have her back. And we can more than match whatever the CEOs and billionaires refuse to contribute.
Okay. This MoveOn member will likely contribute.
But only on condition. The real problem is that the way Democratic Party rules have it, super delegates are supposed to do their own thing, stepping in to save us from Democratic voters from making a horrible mistake. Super delegates are cousins of Electoral College voters -- designed to protect America from intemperate and ill-informed democrats. MoveOn's attention is needed on the larger issue: whether we want super delegates as part of the nomination system.
So let's come to terms with a Democratic party whose actions, under current rules, make no sense to many of its members. At both state and national levels, the Democratic party is a mess. By all means, let's beat back partisan millionaires peeved at not being able to buy the White House for their candidate. But that's only the beginning of what Democrats need to do before another presidential campaign is screwed up.
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