Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Sanders Wins Yet Another Primary, Still Losing Race For Democratic Party Nomination for President of U.S.

Bernard Sanders won big in West Virginia, to no avail. Hillary Clinton almost has enough delegates to clinch the party's nomination. Sanders as won in 19 states, Clinton in 23, but Clinton has hundreds of unelected so-called "superdelegates," Democratic party officials who in effect comprise a Clinton Machine, who are going to vote for her at the convention, cheering lustily in the process. Clinton only needs to win 14% of the remaining delegates at stake to put her over the top.

The Clintons have controlled the Democratic Party ever since Bill ran for president in 1992. Indeed, crucial to that takeover was his prominence in the "Democratic Leadership Council,' a right-wing cabal that operated like a communist party central committee, wielding power within the party.

Even though a Clinton hasn't been president for over 15 years, and a Democrat has occupied the White House for almost eight years now, the Clintons still control the undemocratic Democratic Party.

Ironically, the hard right-wing Republican Party is more democratic than the Democrats. A man loathed by party poohbahs, Donald Trump, is on track to win that party's presidential nomination, eliminating 16 competitors in the process (including the royalist Jeb Bush) by dint of winning the votes in the state primaries.

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