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The Year Democrats Found Out Their Votes Don't Matter

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Massive party corruption and "super delegates" are a hot issue during this year's primary elections.

The 2016 primary elections have been an emotional roller-coaster, with major grassroots politicians gaining a lot of popularity from the establishment.

Unfortunately, events that have unfolded over the past few months have revealed massive failures and corruption in the system, especially within the Democratic party. Bernie Sanders supporters tragically saw millions of their votes uncounted in states such as Arizona and California, total media blackouts from major liberal news stations like CNN and MSNBC, and just plainly ignoring the fact that Sanders was a threat to begin with.

But it doesn't matter according to the Democratic Party, thanks to the 1968 creation of Super Delegates. After the major surge of millennials becoming adults and utilizing social media platforms in order to become more politically aware, everyone suddenly became very aware of how much super delegates can really impact the primaries.

The law was passed after the 1968 Democratic National Convention when pro-Vietnam war liberal Hubert Humphrey was nominated for president without having run in a single primary election. The rules were implemented to allow Democrats overall control over who represents their party, ensuring that no grassroots politicians can sweep the vote.

It makes the whole public voting process seem like smoke and mirrors. Inevitably, the superdelegates amass for so much of the vote that the average voter cannot sway the vote, as superdelegates do not have to vote with the popular vote of their county.

And as much as they seem to be "one with the government", realistically, the political parties are just a group of people with a lot of money and publicity and therefore, power, that do not have anything to do with the political process, except that they continuously get elected.

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Party affiliation is so important that when it comes to electing congress, there are only a handful of politicians who are neither Republican nor Democrat. Basically, if you want to be elected and have any influence, you need to pick a powerhouse party – which is pretty anti-democratic.



 


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