THE SUPERDELEGATES SCAM

The role of the superdelegates in the Democratic presidential primaries is very shady and that's an understatement.

The Republican party to its credit doesn't allow delegates whether elected or appointed to vote other than the will of the primary or caucus voter in the state they represent. The Democrats , on the other hand, after the 1972 and 1976 elections wherein candidates won whom the establishment didn't like (George McGovern and Jimmy Carter) instituted a system wherein roughly one in six delegates are the so-called superdelegates and they don't have to vote the will of the Democratic primary/caucus voter. That's not democracy!

As Nate Silver has pointed out, it is conceivable that Bernie Sanders could win 58% of the popular vote and still not be the Dem nominee due to superdelegates. In 2008, the superdelegates were the ones who dragged out the process. Obama could have been the nominee a month or two earlier if not for them.

I have no favorite here. I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I feel the two parties are equally corrupt and the only hope for America's future and the things it must do to survive is a multi- party system with a uniform law on ballot access for all candidates in all 50 states, a constitutional amendment on how elections are funded including public financing of campaigns and bans on outside special interest money, a national primary and limited election cycle, and the replacement of the electoral college with one person one vote.

If Sanders is cheated out of the nomination after winning a majority of popular votes, Sanders voters should just stay home this fall. Let a Republican win then once everything goes to hell there can be real reform including booting out all the Clintonian neo-liberals from what should be a progressive political party.