Stop the politics, I want to get off
May 31st, 2008
Within fifteen minutes of listening to CNN, they mentioned that tomorrow is the “big day” where some committee of the Democratic Party decides on the delegates for Michigan and Florida, which as you’ve probably heard eighty billion times, were stripped of their delegates because they moved their primaries early.
I agree with Hillary Clinton: yes, everybody should get their vote counted in these two states. Her opinion is slightly flawed though: she was the only person on the ballot in Michigan, and was the only one to visit Florida (not campaigning. That’s not allowed — the party said so. Just visiting). Barack Obama still got quite a bit of the vote — more than should be expected for a “write-in candidate” for just a single state, proving that there’s something going for him.
Earth to Democratic Party: why didn’t you do a “revote” like you said you were thinking about a month ago? It probably would have solved all of this. It would have cost more, yes. But true democracy is everyone being heard — and that would make it work.
But, nope! The committee says that they’re gonna handle everything. The Democratic ticket in the hands of the few. That’s today’s democracy for ya.
Even worse — why do the rules say the delegates get stripped? Why can’t everyone just run amok? That’s democracy.
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