Political Party Games

I remember, back when I was a kid, my dad responding to a claim being made by Leftists that there were free elections in the Soviet Union. “Yeah, they have free elections,” he said. “You’re free to vote for whatever Communist is on the ballot.”

Fast-forward to America, 2016.

The Democrat and Republican parties are both working to ensure that populist candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders can never be their party nominees going into the general election. The Democrats are being quite open about it, having designated overwhelming numbers of “super delegates,” those whose job it is to back the candidate …read more