2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocratic Superdelegates: You are stupid and traitors!
That's what I've been reading on my Congressional representative's FB page and on my Senators pages. Posted over and over again by some folks who also claim to be Sanders supporters. Now, they've won elections to their offices in my state, and more than once. Apparently the voters here disagree about their being stupid traitors.
I had a chance to talk to the congressional rep from my district this past Saturday at our state senate district convention. It was a brief conversation. I told her I was sorry that she was having to deal with so many ugly attacks on her FB page (she or a staffer have been deleting them about as fast as they come in). She told me that she would never let such things change her vote at the convention when balloting began. She said that she will be voting, as a superdelegate, for the candidate with the majority of pledged delegates.
So, to all of those folks who think posting vile insults and attacks aimed at superdelegates:
It Won't Work! They are not the stupid ones in this business, I assure you. Nor are they traitors. They are our elected representatives, and they'll do the right thing at the convention by affirming the voters and voting for the candidate with the majority of pledged delegates.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)Now he thinks they could be useful to him so I'm pretty sure that tune has changed a little.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Except for make the people doing it look as if they are crazy.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)What kind of rational people do such vile and unnecessary things anyway? They're just acting-out. It's not as if it will actually accomplish anything.
But, I suppose the only purpose it serves is to make those people feel like they have "control" over a situation that's completely OUT OF their control.
It's a temper tantrum. Not a mature way to handle disappointment, is it?
Cal33
(7,018 posts)Merryland
(1,134 posts)Are you a super delegate?
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)a lowly DFL precinct chair in Minnesota. I will never be a superdelegate. I won't even be a pledged delegate at the convention. I'm not anywhere near that level.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)Everyone knew the rules of this game when the first whistle blew. Superdelegates are a nifty-keen way to keep a lid on things but the reality is it looks bad. Still, and again, these are the rules that everyone agreed to and it makes no sense to attack them.
I'm a Sanders guy but it would never occur to me to even talk to the superdelegates from my state. It is just as likely that an attack would scuttle any chance of that Supe being open to discussion. The Supes will make their decisions based on what they think is in their own best interests and they base that evaluation on their experience with any number of elections over the course of their careers. Nobody is going to intimidate them into changing their minds. Just won't happen.
And as for the Supes yourselves, if the caller gives you his or her contact information you can sort of give them some credence. If not, then they are just Internet trolls and should be ignored as such.
Like the cartoon says, on the Internet nobody can tell you're a dog.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Are they party 'elders' or poor little delicate flowers?
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)The first are elected Democratic Congress members, Senators and Governors. The second group is made up of state party officials who are members of the Democratic Central Committee. I doubt very much that they have any trouble standing the heat. Instead, they look at such attacks with the scorn deserved for such nonsense.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Corrupt pols don't like being called out on it.