Today is Super Tuesday. Today, 14 states have their primaries. So today we get a clearer picture of who is leading the field in delegates for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination.
The nomination for the Democratic Party's choice of President seemed fixed with the use of what was called superdelegates in 2016. Those were delegates who qualified to become delegates because of their position in the government, the Party, or by popularity. Those delegates get to choose anyone they want. Their votes for who gets to be nominated are not determined by the voters. And though the last presidential election year, Hillary was leading Bernie in the number of regular delegates, her superdelegate advantage changed a slim lead in delegates to a commanding lead.
From what I understand, the Democratic Party will slightly change how they use superdelegates. But that isn't the issue. The real issue is who will become the Democratic Party's nominee to be President. That is because of the contrast that exists between the positions of a progressive like Sanders and old guard's positions of the establishment candidates.
Bernie has drawn a lot support especially from younger voters with his progressive agenda. That agenda includes heathcare for all, the Green New Deal, college for all who want to go, and his proposed protection for workers. But he seems not to get much support from the Democratic Party establishment because that agenda rubs personal interests of those who have wealth. He is not their number 1 choice. It appears that Joe Biden is one of the candidates that the establishment in the Democratic Party favors. And though Sanders won the primarily white states of Iowa and Vermont, Biden won the South Carolina primary, a state with more minority voters than the first two states.
So the question becomes this, what will happen today as 14 states have their primaries? The past suggests that the establishment's choice for candidate starts to take charge of the race on Super Tuesday. That means that at least one of this year's establishment candidates should emerge victorious when counting all of the delegates from Super Tuesday's 14 states. And after today, we will witness the demise, however slow, of the candidacies of the other candidates. And if that holds, then Sanders will no longer lead in delegates after today. And he will again lose out and be put into the position of having to support a Democratic nominee who does not support his progressive agenda. And in doing that, regardless of how popular Sanders is, makes him become a sheepdog candidate--a candidate whose role in the Party becomes that of herding the fringe members of the Party back into the fold, back to supporting the choice of the Democratic Party's establishment. And that means that the progressives begin to lose their voice in the Democratic Party nominating process for they will be strongly told to support the Party's nominee.
If the Democratic Party's tradition holds, Sanders gets fewer delegates than the Democratic Party's establishment preferred candidate, Joe Biden, on Super Tuesday. Then the establishment of the Democratic Party will regain control of the Party and the dreams of the progressive wing of the Party will become gone with the wind. And those progressives will be told to pay for the parties they had before the primaries and during the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire by kowtowing the candidate predestined by the establishment of the Democratic Party.
Then this year's choice for President will be between thing-one and thing-two with both things being played by wealthy old bumbling white guys whose policies represent the interests of those with wealth and who believe in imposing their archaic view of the world and past solutions onto today's America.
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