This
is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The
nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when
nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous
establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media
organization — incredibly — conceals.
Last night
[6/6], the Associated Press — on a day when nobody voted —
surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary
over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night
before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie
Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization’s
survey of “superdelegates”: the Democratic Party’s 720
insiders, corporate donors, and officials whose votes for the
presidential nominee count the same as the actually elected
delegates. AP claims that superdelegates who had not previously
announced their intentions privately told AP reporters that they
intend to vote for Clinton, bringing her over the threshold. AP is
concealing the identity of the decisive superdelegates who said this.
Although the
Sanders campaign rejected the validity of AP’s declaration — on
the ground that the superdelegates do not vote until the convention
and he intends to try to persuade them to vote for him — most major
media outlets followed the projection and declared Clinton the
winner.
This is the
perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The
nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when
nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous
establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media
organization — incredibly — conceals. The decisive edifice of
superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt:
designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party
establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by
corporate interests, it’s only fitting that its nomination process
ends with such an ignominious, awkward, and undemocratic sputter.
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