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In response to What role should Superdelegates play?.

Dear American People,
Okay, so what exactly is going on here? I’m gone for a few decades and this is what happens to the election process? I fear that I need some supervision in this area, this superdelegate business. You are meaning to tell me that we have annexed fifty states, amassed technology the likes I had never dreamt upon, and found a better way to make fakery that passes as teeth, but we’ve decimated our ability to elect the frontrunner of this country by allowing shortcuts? I’m serious here, this has to be one colossal joke. I fought a war for this countries livelihood, and not so we could only become as mad as King George! This is corruption, good people, nothing but! This is putting the reigns of power into the hands of those that are, by their very nature of position, bound to one party and even more so one candidate! Seriously, I am ready for the laughter to commence. Am I the only one that feels mocked? Okay, let’s try this from a different angle: by electing these superdelegates, you not only allow them to walk all over your fellow man, but you paint a target upon them the size of your Louisiana Purchase as well! Let us speculate, I will give you an example, purely fictional: this man in my home of Virginia – rather, this man of West Virginia – was to stick by presidential candidate Barack Obama whilst the entire state went with presidential candidate Hilary Rodham Clinton. This brings up two issues: one man’s vote can override an entire states – which was not the point of the entire “effing” labelization of America as a democracy, I turned down monarchy for you people – and issue number two being that now all eyes are on that man, a man who has the high-chance of being blacklisted from any political work ever again. His crime is one of two briefer points: that he spoke with his heart, or that he spoke with his greed. Either that, he is blacklisted. Either way, it is a pity. A pity that such a great idea such as the United States of America has to fail due to want. Yes, I know what you are going to say. Yes, we did jot down the Constitution with the intent for it to be ratified time and time again. This is entirely different. Jefferson wanted a revolution every twenty years. I am beginning to see why. You even waited a good long while after the birth of our electorial process to implement superdelegates. This speaks to me treachery and conspiracy. Someone got angry, someone had a fit, a tantrum. Someone wanted to mask their intentions under the guise of the country. You have no idea what horrors this would bring to the perpetrators of such indecency had this come about in my time. We still had people hanged back then, as I hope that I do not have to tell you. I would of rode the continental army into West Virginia and situated myself there until we had a resolution that did not pertain to gross misconduct.
I wish for the elected official to be Clinton. I wish for it to be Obama. I wish for the elected official to be John McCain. I wish for this president to be elected by the people and not by a ruling class. Men hiding in their towers surrounded by the stench of villainy and the foolishness of ambition. There is no room, or rather, there should be no room in politics for elitism. A politician is a man, or a woman, as it were nowadays. A politician sleeps and eats like the rest of us. My God, he defecates. You should not be able to control a politician’s thoughts, his dreams, his aspirations, or his loyalty. Our freedom is only as good as it is if it means something, and having a freedom that is a sham for someone else’s power is no freedom that I long for. You can take me out and string me up after that dark day in humanity’s book of time. Superdelegates! What a crooked concept! I implore you, citizens, to please shape up. Ask better of your political machine! Abolish this tomfoolery! Do you want to be free or do you want to have your ideals and your dreams taken from you by a few nameless men? Our nation was not meant to be taken hostage. You will be told that superdelegates make this country better, but that will be a grave lie. Make sure your vote counts. Stop nonsense. Ask your government for more than the scraps they give you.

Fifty states. My God. There are fifty states. How many voices, do you think, are not heard?

Sincerely,
George Washington