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And When He Sees His Reflection, He’s Fulfilled

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St. Ralph offers some typically shrewd analysis of electoral politics:

“She’s going to win by dictatorship. Twenty-five percent of superdelegates are cronies, mostly. They weren’t elected. They were there in order to stop somebody like Bernie Sanders, who would win by the vote,” he says.

I see — Clinton is winning by “dictatorship” because the unelected superdelegates are going to support…the winner of the most votes and the most pledged delegates of Democratic primary voters.

To date, Clinton has captured 3 million more total votes than Sanders, but Nader argues the results would be different if independents were allowed to participate in each state.

Would more open primaries have helped Sanders? Sure. Would they have made up the difference between him and Clinton? Almost certainly not. Are open primaries self-evidently less democratic than closed ones (unlike New York’s) offer a reasonable deadline to switch primaries? No. Does Nader mention the much more obviously undemocratic method of choosing a candidate — caucuses that make it difficult or impossible for the disabled, workers with night shifts, single parents, etc. etc. to vote — that favored Sanders over Clinton? Nope. Is there any discernible principle here other than Nader’s belief that his preferred candidate should win? Of course not.

Needless to say, Nader is Trump-curious:

The liberal activist says Trump has brought some important issues to the fore.

“He’s questioned the trade agreements. He’s done some challenging of Wall Street – I don’t know how authentic that is. He said he’s against the carried interest racket, for hedge funds. He’s funded himself and therefore attacked special interest money, which is very important,” Nader says.

If you think that Trump wants to increase taxes or regulation on Wall Street, you’ve massively uninformed, a liar, or both. Ditto for anyone who thinks that wealthy funders won’t be supporting Trump. But then, we are dealing someone who combines a relentless, and generally unjustified, leftier-than-all-of-thou affect with a belief that wise billionaires must come to save us all.

And, finally, we get a classic expression of the voter-as-atomistic-consumer model:

A Connecticut resident, Nader would not budge on revealing his November ballot choice, but says Sanders and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein best represent the movement he’s trying to advance.

“Once you endorse somebody by saying you’re going to vote, you’re stuck with all the other things that that person may not be good at,” he says.

If you make the determination that Lyndon Johnson was a better choice to be president than Barry Goldwater, you’re personally responsible for the Vietnam War, so it totally would have been better for Johnson voters to cast write-in votes for themselves and throw the election to Goldwater. This is silly coming from anybody — coming from someone who denies any responsibility for the consequences for his active and successful attempts to throw a presidential election to George W. Bush…what can you even say.

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