The Democratic Party seems to be intent on proving that too much democracy is, well, too much.

First there's the super delegates. When the primaries were in full swing no one seemed to know what the super delegates were to use as the basis for their decisions, with the result that they became whatever either candidate wanted them to be. With the primary season over, it still seems that no one knows exactly what the super delegates are supposed to do. Should they follow the lead of the actual voters? Should each super delegate use his/her own judgment? Would flipping a coin do?

Second there is Michigan and Florida. Everyone and their uncle saw this trainwreck coming: once the Dems announced that these two miscreant states were not going to be seated at the convention as punishment for moving up their primaries, you KNEW they would end up bolloxing everything up. And sure enough, it took a meeting of the Dems-in-charge to resolve the problem. Sort of. As with the super delegates, during the primaries Michigan and Florida became whatever the candidates wanted them to be. Of course, both candidates were left to their own devices in campaigning and even being on the ballots in those two states. Why in the world would two of the most populous and important states be completely taken off the map, primary-wise? Were the Dems-in-charge the only ones who knew they opening the door to enormous problems?

If the dems have suffered during this primary season they have only themselves to blame for it. Imagine that Florida and Michigan BOTH went for Hillary, as seems reasonably likely. Wouldn't that have made Hillary a stronger candidate later into the primary season? Wouldn't it have taken the "concede, Hillary" thing off the table? In the long weeks before the Pennsylvania primary Hillary became the runner up. What would have happened if she stayed the co-leader?

As for the super delegates, those have been dangled over our heads for months: at one time Hillary was supposedly going to take the lion's share, then it was Obama. Of course, while the outcome was in doubt and the candidates were still their to be sold, the super delegates themselves had little reason to make their selections known.

What a circus. Sort of reminds me of the 1972 George McGovern debacle, where it seemed like the dems were attempting to become all things to all people with the result that they became nothing to no one.