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[–] Men13 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Just one more of the "The DNC is telling it how it is. Not even trying to sugar coat it. You've got to give them that." quote.

I mean, you can't say they're lying or even misleading anyone. First the "The whole point of superdelegates is to protect the candidate we want to win from the vote of the people" (paraphrasing slightly), and here's just more of the same.

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[–] McBitches ago 

I don't get how that just happens. What the fuck is the point then?

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[–] Men13 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

The DNC is a private organization. They can do whatever the fuck they want - if you don't like it just vote for some other party. I mean, legally you can have a political party that just tells you "this is who we're running for president. If you don't like it - vote for someone else".

That's more or less what the DNC does. The problem is - the two party system (or "first past the pole") guarantees you don't have a third option. What we need is something like proportional representation - where you don't vote for individuals (congressmen / president) but rather for parties, and the parties "fill the seats" with an amount of people proportional to the number of votes they got.

That way if, say, 5% of people vote for a small, little known, party for a single little cared about issue - that party will still get ~5 congressmen which is nothing to sneeze at. Right now, if 5% of the population thinks an issue is important - no one cares at all.