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  • OshagHennessey@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 days ago

    We tried that in 2016 when we elected Bernie Sanders as our Dem candidate. The DNC told us to go fuck ourselves and nominated Hillary Clinton anyway. So, no, apparently that won’t work either.

    • leadore@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      Times have changed. They can fight all they want. Like they did against Mamdani, and they lost.

      • ClassStruggle@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Not the same animal though, the DNC manipulated delegate counts at the convention to ensure Hillary won, a tactic they will repeat if a viable threat rises during the general election

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        • leadore@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          But they could only do that for the office of president+VP, a national office. They don’t have conventions for choosing candidates for any of the other offices–those are decided in the primary, period.

          Also because of the backlash from thatm after similar issues in previous years, there was some reform to reduce the power of the superdelegates:

          Superdelegates would now be prohibited from voting on the first ballot at the National Convention if their votes could be influential in the outcome.4 (However, if their votes could not sway the nomination, superdelegates would be permitted to vote on the first ballot.) If no candidate received a majority of pledged delegates on the first ballot, superdelegates would be allowed to vote on subsequent ballots.

          See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7786873/ for more details.

          • ClassStruggle@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Instead of eliminating super delegates they simply changed their structure. It’s still corrupt

                • leadore@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  22 hours ago

                  Pathetic. My entire OP in this thread (along with a bunch of other people’s) is about fighting against the corrupt Democratic party apparatus by primarying their candidates from the left, and you say you give up because they’re corrupt. Well, that’s your choice. Don’t know why you bother to talk about it here, go live your life and let others decide the future then.