#superdelegates

[dykeseinfeld]

here’s how gideon/cytherea can go canon in alecto the ninth-

[odinsblog]

But….

[decolonize-the-left]

I’m not a registered democrat, I have campaigned for a progressive before, but I’m gonna be real with you. If democrats are “pro-Democracy” and republicans are the “fascists” than why the fuck do the democrats not have debates this year but do have superdelegates? But the repubs don’t have superdelegates and do have debates (even when RFK Jr and Marianne Williamson are both doing better in the polls against Biden then any of the republicans other than DeSantis are doing against trump)? You can make the case he’s an incumbent but half the democrats want someone new. I can’t be the only one who sees this nonsense

fascism(n.)

fas·​cism ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm

a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that

exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader

severe economic and social regimentation

and forcible suppression of opposition

I can't post more than 10 links on a post anymore so I can't provide sources proving that the USA has met all-if not most- of these check marks. But it has. And it has for a long time, before Trump and before Obama. Regardless of party.

Because fascism is fascism. Just like democracy is democracy regardless of which party you align with. Why would which fascist party you like matter? Its fascism.

Like when was the last time any of us Genuinely had a say in anything? We're just now coming out of centuries of genocide, slavery, and systematic abuses against minorities. We all just got human rights within the last generation and not even all of them. And we had to fight tooth and nail, lose family for the ones we do have.

And that's not even talking about how long it took us to get our right to vote and it's still actively & shamelessly suppressed every election.

And we're slipping backwards? Already?

Does our "democracy" think the people suddenly lost interest in the rights and protections our previous generations fought for? Funny that while also adding more laws to make protesting illegal and more funding and protections to police. Did you know Biden labeled people protesting specifically against fascism as terrorists part of a terror group (antifa)?

Why?

Who does it benefit to strip us of rights?

Why do it when that's Not what we want?

What could They want for us?

Why are they censoring protests critiquing capitalism?

Do you want people deciding which rights you should have For you when they think you shouldn't have less?

Is the way this country is functioning right now a healthy democracy?

This is something that someone just made in contrast to the above images I'm sure. I can't find any indication online this is a genuine list.

But it does make a very strong point about the political leanings of the US political climate. And it's certainly not leaning towards any of these things. Always seems to be justifying attacking them or not supporting them instead...which goes back to the scapegoats checkpoint.

The first thing Nazis did was blame minorities for the state of the country. As soon as they had enough support, they started rounding us up.

Kinda like how Mexicans are stealing jobs, Black people steal cuz they don't work, queers are perverting our youth and welfare queens are stealing from taxpayers.

And what are the Dems doing about this rhetoric?

Pushing you right every chance. Like using the pied piper strategy for their nationwide campaigning. Like having superdelegates and not letting progressives participate.... But yeah Republicans will.

At least they listen, right? At least they're honest.

Makes that step right seem way easier than you thought before. Funny, innit?

Democrats are truly personifying the ratchet effect but not just by allowing republicans to pass awful policy while doing Nothing in return. They're also doing nothing at best while the right recruits more and more people (and helping at worst).

I think there are a lot of people in our government who are there for good reason and with good intentions and are "pro-democracy."

I think very few of them are aware enough of the bigger picture to realize they're cogs in a well oiled fascist machine.

That is to say only fascists work in fascist governments.

They're all fash. Not just repubs. Not just Dems.

The only people I have any hope for are progressives and leftists willing to throw a wrench in it.

I'd happily vote for Marianne or Bernie or Andrew Yang if it meant giving fascists a run for their money.

Nothing would scare them more than the people having spare money and time to organize. And we'd have that with higher wages or ubi or universal healthcare.

Voting for a socialist is the best way to beat a fascist. Socialists fundamentally believe everyone deserves rights. There is no greater challenger to fascism than that.

It's why Democrats refuse to push Bernie and Marianne and Andrew Yang. It's why candidates like them with campaigns focused on social programs and increasing life quality are reduced to clowns and radicals nobody should take seriously.

It's all propaganda. All of it.

As long as we still have the ability to vote we should be voting for people like them.

Who cares if they aren't perfect, you know? We're living in the setup stages of another genocide.

Who cares if we lose when we lose either fucking way at this point. Biden is the fucking president and he can't stop what Desantis is doing???? Won't challenge it???

We need someone who will. And WE, together, need to stop settling and putting up with less when we can have So Much More.

Anyone telling you to vote for Biden is a psyop for fascists and I stand by that.

Voting for parties like green party or independents or whatever is not "fascism" because it's splitting the vote. I don't care what Democrats and liberals tell you. It's just you exercising your right to vote for a representative that represents you. Which is what a healthy democracy is supposed function like.

If they call you a fascist/psyop/Russian/bot it's time to start really analyzing what principles and beliefs Democrats stand for in 2023. Do they want you to vote with their beliefs and principles or have they shaped their nationalism to align with their political party which they want you to support without question?

And if they start pressuring you because "the fascists" will win without a unified vote on a democratic candidate then it's time to start considering more aggressive approaches to fascism if we are ONLY ever one election away from it.

If we are One vote away then voting isn't enough to keep it away anyway. And this "warning" coming from the same party year after year that's ALSO promised to "address (voter sticking point) after we win the votes we need" for decades in a row now.

They didn't. In fact we don't have Roe v Wade over it. We're losing human rights over it.

And now Democrats are the Only ones who can stop fascists, huh?

[newtypezaku]

Or as they call it in America, Superdelegate Simulator

[radiofreederry]

Bumper sticker for former Vice President Mike Gravel’a failed 1996 campaign for President.

While Bill Clinton had served loyally as his brother Ted’s Vice President for eight years, former President Robert Kennedy disliked him both personally and politically, and viewed his campaign for the Democratic nomination in 1996 with dismay. Kennedy felt that Clinton’s conservatism posed a threat to the legacy of the New Deal and subsequent programs such as those of the Great Society and his own New Renaissance. He sought to find an heir to the liberal and progressive wings of the Democratic Party to oppose Clinton. His initial choice was Connecticut Senator Paul Newman, who rejected the idea as he felt he was too old. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, and Ohio Governor Dennis Kucinich were similarly uninterested for various reasons, least of all Clinton’s impressive lead in the polls.

Finally, Kennedy was able to recruit Mike Gravel of Alaska, who had taken over as his Vice President from 1974 to 1977 following George McGovern’s taking responsibility for the Colorado Springs bombing and resigning. Gravel announced his candidacy in September of 1995 and the primary field almost immediately narrowed to himself and Clinton, with former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder as an also-ran. Gravel ran on a platform of responsible foreign engagement and non-intervention, strengthening of civil rights protections, and finally passing single-payer healthcare; Clinton campaigned on reducing government spending, reforming social programs, and exerting American strength aboard following the USSR’s reformation into the USER. After a bitter and drawn-out primary, Clinton emerged victorious thanks to lopsided wins in the South and Plains states as well as strong support from superdelegates. Rather than extending an olive branch to Gravel’s faction, Clinton snubbed them with his selection of Florida Senator Bob Graham as his running mate, and a resulting drop in liberal support contributed to his loss against New Hampshire governor Steve Merrill in November.

[lordnot]

Since Dr. Cornel West, by name recognition alone, is clearly the best Third Party Presidential candidate we've had in at least twenty years, it seems like a good time to clarify my stance on the Democratic Primary.

If I could snap my fingers and make a current candidate President, I would choose Marianne Williamson or RFK Jr. in a heartbeat. Flaws and all. They are leagues above Biden, Trump, DeSantis, or Harris when it comes to the good they could do for this country. The problem I have with their candidacies is that supporting them props up the illusion that the Democratic Primary is by any stretch a democratic process.

What people seem to have forgotten is that between Bernie's victory in the 2020 Nevada Caucus and Super Tuesday, the Democratic Party Elites started to get anxious and tipped their hands a little too much. The narrative quickly became "You know we don't actually have to make the person who wins the most delegates our candidate, right?" This all culminated in the February 19th debate, where every candidate was asked whether they would support allowing superdelegates to give the nomination to someone who didn't win the most delegates in the primaries, and everyone but Bernie said they would.

To me, that means the cat is out of the bag. Unless Marianne and RFK's goals are just trying to win support before launching their own Third Party run, which is unlikely, then they are wasting their and everyone else's time. The Party Elites want Biden. Biden wants to run again. Therefore, he will be the nominee.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

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#15yrsago Gitmo operating manual leak https://web.archive.org/web/20071216093109/https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Gitmo-sop.pdf

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#10yrsago UPS to Scouts: no more money until you drop anti-gay policy https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2012/11/12/ups-cuts-funding-to-boy-scouts-over.html

#10yrsago Wall Street is not made up of “numbers guys” https://scienceblogs.com/principles/2012/11/12/financiers-still-arent-rocket-scientists

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#5yrsago Bernie Sanders: to fix the Democratic Party, curb superdelegates, make it easier to vote in primaries, and account for funds https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/10/bernie-sanders-how-to-fix-democratic-party-215813/

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#5yrsago Roy Moore’s scandal is just the tip of American evangelical Christianity’s child bride problem https://web.archive.org/web/20171119043741/http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brightbill-roy-moore-evangelical-culture-20171110-story.html

#1yrago How to be safe(r) online https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/13/opsec-soup-to-nuts/#secured

[songsofprotestpeacerevolution]

Superdelegate · Roy Zimmerman

[theidlerwheeliswiser2012]

wrt aipac throwing millions into ads to sink progressive candidates-- this one of many things that drives me crazy when i see liberals insist that Your Vote Is Your True Power because anyone who pays attention to and studies US politics knows this is and HAS been a problem since the citizens united supreme court case that gave corporations the same political donation rights as individuals. they've been diluting our votes with money, with "superdelegates," etc. for years.

the genocidal old man you're all falling over yourselves to support "because he's the better option" before the options have really been decided is actively lying, playing dirty political games, and harnessing millions on billions in money from the zionist lobby (and almost certainly weapons corps) to eliminate any of the candidates i'd even consider voting for

[dan6085]

In the United States, each political party has its own process for selecting candidates for public office. The Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, uses a system of delegates to select its presidential nominee.

In the Republican Party, the delegates are elected or appointed individuals who represent their state or territory at the party's national convention. These delegates are often chosen through a series of state-level caucuses and primaries, where voters choose which candidate they prefer.

The number of delegates for each state is determined by a formula that takes into account the state's population, past voting patterns, and other factors. Some states use a winner-takes-all system, where the candidate who wins the most votes in the primary or caucus receives all of the state's delegates. Other states use a proportional system, where the delegates are awarded based on the percentage of the vote each candidate receives.

At the Republican National Convention, the delegates cast their votes for the candidate they have been pledged to support. The candidate who receives a majority of the delegates' votes becomes the party's nominee for president.

In addition to the delegates, there are also superdelegates in the Democratic Party, which are party officials and elected officials who are not bound by the results of the primaries and caucuses. However, the Republican Party does not have superdelegates.

[vamptastic]

Can people who don't even live in Florida stop putting the blue no matter who Desantis post on my dash. Fuck that guy dgmr but I want everyone to stop spreading this bullshit bootlicking narrative of "democrats lose elections bc people pick fringe leftist candidates and then refuse to vote when they lose the nomination, so make sure you nominate and vote for the most centrist candidate possible".

Democrats lose elections because they pit the most soulless spineless centrists against populist reactionaries regardless of what their actual voters want. The superdelegate thing is so fucked and we shouldn't just handwave away the fact that one of two major political parties doesn't even let their voters pick the nominees. It's oligarchic.

And yes the Republican party also has bigtime issues with representing their voters interests in the party but people aren't passing around sanctimonious Tumblr posts excusing it. Yeah, duh, don't vote for fucking Desantis, but we're not even in the primaries yet and y'all are already telling people to toss out all of their hopes and dreams and morals and vote for whoever is most likely to win against him no matter what awful policy they want passed or what their legislative history is or whatever personal moral failings they've exhibited.

Polls are bullshit, the Democratic party is a fucking joke, ignore their unsuccessful campaign strategies and vote for whoever is actually gonna try to pass what you want passed.

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[decolonize-the-left]

In 2016, I went balls to the wall for Bernie - was a registered democrat for the duration of the primaries, became a state delegate for Bernie, went to the Philly DNC in support of Bernie. I saw first hand how broken the system was - counting delegates by hand raising, expecting people to physically be in person and take off work without pay, providing no child care services or transportation assistance, how lifelong democrats walked through the delegate aisles to tell all Bernie supporters "when Bernie loses, you're still gonna vote blue." I canvassed houses of registered democrats in Iowa to talk to them about Bernie, and the responses were either: "Bernie is way too radical, Hillary is getting my vote" or "I can't afford to take off work/I don't have someone to babysit/I'm too disabled to get to the caucus, but Bernie has my full support and I wish I could participate." People seem to forget how hard folx went for Bernie, how he and Hillary were neck-and-neck. They seem to forget that the superdelegates chose Hillary - despite seeing a massive swell of voter turnout and participation in the system because of a candidate that was finally outside what the establishment was wanting to prop up. Despite seeing how much Bernie stirred and lit up the voters, they fought against the very demographic that they constantly try to win over. The establishment will always pick their people, regardless of what The People want. The experience was disheartening, it was eye opening, it was cruel, it was rigged. It still is all of those things.

And instead of reading your frustrations, your needs, your real pain, people will just... blame you for how the system is set up? They really think non-voters are the problem? That is telling me that they don't really know how the system is set up beyond the ballot - they haven't actually gone through the state delegate process start to finish nor have they even educated themselves on what the process looks like and what obstacles were put in place (that the establishment, by the way, doesn't want changed). The established parties don't want to digitize the process - they still want people to physically show up in spaces (and a candidate will LOSE state delegates if people who sign up to be delegates don't PHYSICALLY show up on a specific day, at a specific time, for several hours to be counted), but they won't offer child care services, they won't pay for travel or work missed. They would rather blame non-voters rather than make the process accessible.

This is by design, this is not a fluke.

I don't know how many of your anons actually have been inside or around Republican circles, but damn a lot of what they're spouting at you I have heard straight up in Republican dominated spaces. "We don't like Trump, but we can't let a democrat win - we will get killed, our families will be broken, the country will collapse. Life as we know it is under attack and on the verge of destruction. You have to vote Republican no matter what."

I say all of this also as an indigenous, trans, queer activist. I say all this as someone who puts together rallies, workshops, protests, and spaces of healing. I say this as a trans refugee, displaced due to hostile legislation, still working out housing. I see you, I hear you, and you are not my enemy. You are not the reason why things are as they are. The system has failed us all, the system is rigged, thank you for all the on the ground work you're doing outside the state. I think these anons are cowards and punching down - they need to direct that anger towards democrats and republicans. They should read your posts, get angry (about what the system is, how you've been treated by it, and where it is now) and tear into the establishment that has done you (and all of us) wrong. The victim blaming has got to stop.

Agree

[errantimpulses]

Okay political post again….

Please do not hype or believe the narrative on TV that Trump’s 2024 bid is a “huge failure” or whatever left-wing media is trying to tell you (and I am saying this to left wing individuals)

Don’t buy into “even the republicans are turning away from him”

This is EXACTLY what they said in 2016. Many on the left thought he was such a deeply unqualified candidate, and murmurs from the right made them think people would switch sides.

This is probably what contributed to an unpopular (on the whole) candidate running on the left against someone who, in 2012, the left had already supported.

But the general assumption was this election was a lock, so it was okay to support unpopular candidates- even as they displayed the same unhinged and narcissistic behavior as Trump (“every primary I didn’t win was because of voter fraud/suppression”, “superdelegates, many of whom I have personally insulted, should just give me their vote because by the popular vote alone I’d lose.”

This resulted in a divide in the party, with more people voting third party than in previous elections. But the divide that was thought to be present on the right was not actually there.

The midterms were not some massive blowout - they only seemed that way because it was anticipated it would be a blowout in the opposite direction. When many of the races were within 2 percentage points, that’s an easy flip in the future.

So all I’m saying is…stay optimistic, but let’s not fall into the same complacency as 2016.

[greysvita]

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[rivaltimes]

Lopez Obrador hands over the address of the state company Lithium for Mexico to the son of the superdelegate of Sonora

Lopez Obrador hands over the address of the state company Lithium for Mexico to the son of the superdelegate of Sonora

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo.RR SS The lithium company of the Mexican State will remain in the hands of allies close to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The president announced on Wednesday that Pablo Daniel Taddei — son of the Sonora superdelegate, Pablo Taddei — will be the director of Litio for Mexico (LitioMx), the new state company. For his…