Originally Posted by
mikem
I go to Arizona state party and county meetings and was dragged to them as a kid in Louisiana cause the family business is suing the cops. Superdelegates look suspicious from afar because they are appointed but it isn’t if you know the actual makeup of party establishment in the states.
The party establishment they are selected from are the volunteer types who bother to show up and do a bunch of thankless mostly unpaid work. The prestige / self importance of being a delegate is what a local teacher’s union chapter head, AME church deacon, or Planned Parenthood manager gets as a payoff.
Could they vote to swing an election against the popular primary vote? Sure, but they won’t. If the party establishment in AZ is picking anyone it isn’t Harris or Biden, but Warren. The problem with the left podcast crowd (not Bernie - he is fine, but his hangers on) is that they are neither culturally part of any section of the American working class nor do they have any genuine personal affection for it. They clearly feel superior to the peons whose lives they are enriching and don’t get why said peons don’t want to join their movement.