COMMENT ON THE NOTION OF A RIGGED SYSTEM WITH
SUPER-DELEGATES
"This is NOT
democracy."
Well, that could apply to the entire American political
system, not just super-delegates.
The Electoral College is not democratic, and it is what
actually elects the president.
The two-party system is not democratic but a kind of
political duopoly. You can start a new party if you like, but the nation is an
absolute web of traps and barriers created by the two establishment parties
against your success.
America’s press is not democratic in its practices or
desires. It completely favors one of the two institutional candidates. A
Harvard School of Government study has just shown that in the Bernie Sanders’
campaign, at key points the press played a significant role in giving him
little or no voice. After all, the press is owned by the 1%.
Big money for campaigns is not democratic. Automatically,
the requirement for big private money leaves the 1% pretty much determining who
can run and what major policies of the winner will be.
Trump only squeezed through because he is so rich he can
pretty much finance himself, and even that fact is not democratic.
And when any newly-elected president comes to Washington, he
is immediately faced with a massive establishment which is effectively an
unelected government inside the elected government, the military-security
monstrosity and special interests. They blanket everything.
And, in the last instance, should a person manage to rise
and be elected, a person who really does want to change some of the established
practices and institutions, there is always the fact of John Kennedy's
assassination (plus that of his aspiring brother) to provide a powerful
deterrence.
There is no way a reasonable person can look at America and
call it democratic.
And it is stunning how many Americans do not understand that
basic fact.
