The only reason I know there is a Democratic Party “debate” Saturday night (9 PM Eastern) is that I listened to Rush briefly on Friday and he mentioned how angry Sanders is that the debate is airing at a time few people watch TV<\/p>\n
The Democratic Presidential selection process has very little to do with going to the polls. The oligarchs of the party and special interest groups like the SEIU control “superdelegate” votes that will choose the candidate. That is why the Democrat party is not “democratic”.<\/p>\n
Unless Hilllary withdraws, has more fainting spells or is sitting in a jail cell, she will be the candidate<\/p>\n
The Democrats made a strategic blunder in the 1960s that fed the polarization of the two parties. The delegate selection process at the party convention was modified to “reward” states that “delivered” the vote in the preceding election. The error was this creates a positive feedback loop. They didn’t factor in “but what if our candidate loses?”<\/p>\n
So when George Wallace drew votes away from Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Humphrey lost to Nixon, the Conservative Democrats from the South lost clout because their states were disloyal. That set up the party to become even more extreme, selecting George McGovern in 1972, who lost every state except Massachusetts to Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n
Dixie had been solidly Democratic since the end of Reconstruction, when the Republicans brought their carpetbags below the Mason Dixon line to “fix” the South. Jim Crow laws, segregation of lunch counters, putting blacks at the back of the bus, using fire hoses and dogs to attack Civil Rights workers was the Southern Democratic Party of the 1969s. Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican.<\/p>\n
The Democrats who won since (other than the current president) have been a peanut farmer from Georgia and the governor of Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The only reason I know there is a Democratic Party “debate” Saturday night (9 PM Eastern) is that I listened to Rush briefly on Friday and he mentioned how angry Sanders is that the debate is airing at a time … Continue reading