Watch it for the eminently punchable ass who is behind the Iowa caucus becoming the absurd power house in electoral politics it is. If I had him in front of me and he said what he did in this, it would take a huge effort on my part to keep from punching the smug, self-satisfied smile off of his face. Mind you, I feel the same about those who promote the anti-democratic, 19th century atrocity, the caucus as anything other than what the disabilities rights activist notes it is, an event for political hobbyists. I have felt it for those stultified caucus stalwarts in my own state. The last one had the most abusrdly stupid rules of any of those I've either voted in or witnessed in more than half a century. They are the most incredibly stupid political system in the United States. And from what I remember reading, Nevada's were even stupider.
The Democratic Party should, I would say must, adopt a rule that says that convention delegates chosen by caucuses will not participate in nominating the presidential candidate of the party.
I would go on to say that the Democratic Party establishment are idiots to not have taken control of the nominating system from state legislators, so often Republican-fascists or their lacky hacks with a D after their names.
A. Democrats should run their own nominations elections OPEN ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN REGISTERED MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR OR SINCE THEY WERE 18. No non-democrats, not Republican ratfuckers, not independents, not Green Party carpetbaggers, etc. should have any say in who the Democratic Party runs as president and vice president.
B. Vice presidents should run independently of presidential candidates or the one who comes in second should automatically be the VP on the ticket. I have no good feeling about who Biden or Sanders would pick, it's too important to be the choice of one man. It's too important to leave up to a small number of states delegates.
C. Those elections should be done by the Democratic Party through the most democratic of all currently available systems, by Democrats voting by ballot delivered by the U.S. Mail. Washington State has proven that to be both possible and certainly likely to produce the largest possible turnout. The role of state legislatures should be removed, entirely from it.
D. They should have it be a nation-wide vote with no state or states or region dominating it.
E. They should have independent running of that vote and as complete transparency as possible.
Such a vote would make the candidate the choice of a far larger number of Democrats, not centered in particular states or regions, it would make the votes of every Democrat in every state equal, it would remove the current idiocy of having states that are whiter than Woody Allen's filmography and voters almost as elderly as he is making that choice.
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