Looks like David Hogg will get his wish. This weekend, Hogg lamented that Democrats just don’t get that young men want to “get laid.” Great news, then; thanks to a subcommittee vote, the DNC appears ready to screw him.
And it looks as though they will play right into the hands of Republicans while doing so:
A Democratic National Committee subcommittee on Monday recommended that the organization invalidate one of its February vice-chair votes over claims that it unfairly disadvantaged female candidates.
The move, which won’t be official unless the entire DNC votes to approve it, could open up new races for the positions held by David Hogg, a Florida activist, and Malcolm Kenyatta, a Pennsylvania state legislator.
So … Democrats have to decide whether to come out against democracy? Is that what’s happening here? I thought election results were so sacrosanct that questioning them was a betrayal of American values, or something. And this isn’t just concern over the counting of ballots, errors, or flat-out cooked elections.
In fact, the DNC may invalidate the Vice Chair election results because they weren’t cooked enough:
The ruling by the credentials committee on Monday was not technically related to Mr. Hogg’s plans to engage in primaries. Instead, it was the result of a complaint from Kalyn Free, one of the losing candidates in the vice chair race. Ms. Free said the party had wrongly combined two separate questions into a single vote, putting at a disadvantage the female candidates because of the party’s gender-parity rules. …
“This is about fairness and making sure that three women and the voting members of the D.N.C. are not disenfranchised,” Ms. Free said in a statement before the meeting, during which she enlisted a parliamentary expert to plead her case.
Ahem. In no way was Ms. Free “disenfranchised.” The DNC held an open convention of its members to elect its officers. Every member got a vote; every member had the opportunity to nominate the candidates on the slate. They held an open vote and counted the ballots in public. How can this be disenfranchisement? Everyone literally exercised their franchise and elected the officers in public!
That’s not what “disenfranchised” means in the progressive dictionary, however. “Disenfranchised” means ‘the wrong person got elected.’ This isn’t about a parliamentary defect — it’s the fact that two males got elected rather than females, or perhaps even more accurately, two beings who might at times identify as women. The election isn’t the problem. The result is the problem.
And consider just how absurd this is in the context of an election within the Democrat Party. Are we to believe that the activists within this organization in particular were not sensitive to the ideals of DEI and victimology? This party is the chief practitioner and advocate for those policies. They have practically alienated all of the normies still left, which was Hogg’s criticism on Bill Maher’s show Friday night. The collected delegates within that organization still voted for Hogg and Kenyatta with those values in mind.
Progressives don’t want democracy. They want to run everything by diktat, with results redistributed to preferred victim groups in intersectionality order defined by progressives. Any other result is “disenfranchisement.” Even completely open and fair elections must be canceled if they conflict with the spoils division demanded by progressives.
On top of everything else, Democrats now want to sacrifice democracy on the Altar of Woke, even though they had far better grounds on which to boot Hogg and hold a new election. Hogg hadn’t even been on the job a fortnight before he started using Democrat Party resources to raise funds for his own PAC, which pays him a six-figure salary. That PAC is also planning to fund primary challenges against Democrat incumbents in the next cycle. Those are sufficient grounds to fire Hogg (through proper procedure) rather than pretend his election was somehow invalid from the start.
Rather than take out the trash, progressive Democrats would rather renounce democracy itself. And they wonder why their poll numbers look worse than Congress’, and almost as bad as the media’s.
