In all of this talk of how ridiculous and convoluted the primary process is, with all of the talk of how superdelegates might just decide who they want to run with no regard for how the people actually voted, I saw this news item - 21-year-old Supedelegate to brunch with Chelsea Clinton
The articles goes on in an “aw shucks” tone, as though this isn’t a perfect microcosm of how american democracy is dead, to explain that
“Fuckin’ Hilarious, Bro! High Five! I’m going to decide the fate of the nation, and then we’ll pound jager bombs!”
What went wrong!? Seriously, how does something like this even happen? American Democracy is dead; this is the fall of the Empire. Philip K. Dick was right, it’s actually AD 90 and history if frozen in an 11-bit consciousness cube. The empire never ended.
The statue of liberty is kaput. Democracy is dead. Frat-boy superdelegate is a living metaphor, a self-aware pocket-universe from beyond the end times come to lead us all to the abattoir. Jesus please return soon.
Too many // in the beginning of the URL - delete 'em and it’s all good.
ETA: I read the article, and I’m not sure exactly what’s being pitted. The kid seems pretty reasonable to me. Nothing about Jager-bombs, much to my disappointment.
Click the link and then delete two of the “/” marks, and it works fine.
I don’t see what the OP’s getting all riled up about. He’s a superdelegate because he ran for a spot on the DNC in his homestate and won. I certainly doubt he would’ve emerged victorious in such a contest if he was a vapid, apolitical, beer-chugging party boy. Some political junkies become wonky at a really young age. He should be penalized for being particularly passionate and motivated to get involved in the process?
Uhm, we let people up to 4 years younger than him make decisions that affect the fate of the nation every day. Hell, we put guns in their hands and send them off to war. I’d much rather see a voting stylus in their hands!
HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS EVEN HAPPEN? Do people just elect others now based on what would be “weird” or “funny?” Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger is the fucking GOVERNOR of California! People elected that novelty wrestler guy to be governor of a state!! Is it just like
and then it happens?!?!?
GOD
We are literally living in Idiocracy. This is some St. God’s Memorial Hospital shit.
What’s next? Girls Gone Wild for president? Do we elect a fictional character? Captain Crunch?
I saw him interviewed last night on CNN. He is a dedicated Democratic party member who ran for the DNC in Wisconsin when he was 17. He has walked precincts and manned phones for the Democrats for four years, and now he is trying to choose the candidate who will be best for the party. He seemed intelligent, sincere, and committed to me, and unlikely to be swayed by all of the attention he is receiving. Of all the scary things about the U.S. political system, Jason Rae is at the very bottom of my list.
Shouldn’t all Superdelagagtes be at least 40 years old and firmly entrenched in the party machinery? I mean this 21-year old probably doesn’t even owe anybody any political favors…yet What can he possibly know about…stuff. I mean, sure he can vote and everything, but that hardly means he should have a voice in our political system. I weep for Democracy when just anybody can take part in the process.
Quite the impressive bio to date. Valedictorian, class president, Senate page, VP of the college democrats of WI, chair of the DNC youth council and so on. Not the history of the frat-party boy you seem to want to think he is.