Reply #84: Sorry, Peter [View All]

[The Traveler]

Man, that really, really sucks. It has created a big problem. Of course, the Republicans in your state fully intended that when they helped set up this primary in violation of the DNC rules. Crappy politics, but what do you expect?

Bottom line ... the election in Florida is not valid. It was not conducted fairly. Which sucks especially hard for Hillary supporters because even if it had been conducted fairly she probably would have won by a considerable margin. But there is no doubt that the whole process was tainted (again, with the help of our Rethuglican friends).

This is not fair. Period. Not fair to you. Not fair to other voters who, if there had actually been a campaign in Florida might have chosen differently. Not fair to voters from other states, whose primaries and caucuses were conducted appropriately. It is just not fair.

I wish I had a better answer for you. Life, of course, is often unfair ... but in a matter as serious as voting rights in the world's largest representative democracy that unfairness should raise more alarm bells than it apparently does.

The right answer, I believe, was to reschedule the primaries. We all should have chipped in to defray the cost. (By "we" I mean individual voters from all states, the DNC, the Democratic Party structures of all other states ... everybody.) Now wouldn't that have been a powerful example to hurl in the faces of the Rethuglicans? Of course, it is way too late to pull that off now ... I can't help but feel we missed an opportunity.