Let's Be Clear

Poppy Bush bailed on the NRA when they put up the ads about "jack-booted thugs of the federal government". And the Republican base turned against him when he made pragmatic decisions on things like women's rights and tax policy.

Bush43 screwed the pooch on Iraq, and again on Katrina. (There's a strong probability that his action/inaction on both were in keeping with the Repub policies, BTW) And then, even though he pushed thru 2 ginormous tax cuts, and he set up a very effective way to syphon tax dollars into the pockets of Big Pharma (again in accordance with "conservative" policies), the GOP has since snubbed that guy so hard, they don't even invite him to their conventions.

Barbara Bush died and 45* was asked to stay away.

Wanna look into the GOP's warm fuzzy feeling towards Mitt Romney?

And now another very prominent figure in Republican politics has died, and the McCain family has told 45* they don't want him at the funeral.

We know the Dems have their own troubles, but they're not eating their own like the Repubs are doing - so how do we get "both sides are the same - they're all alike" out of this one?

But then - along comes the news that the DNC has changed its rules regarding the Super Delegates thing.

NBC News:

The reform package, pushed by DNC Chairman Tom Perez and allies of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, among others, passed overwhelmingly by voice vote at the DNC’s summer meeting here — two years after the process started.

Perez and others hailed the outcome as momentous, saying the reforms will help welcome new people into the party by reassuring them that their vote will never be overruled by the party leaders who can vote for whomever they want for the presidential nomination.

“Today is a historic day for our party,” Perez said. “We passed major reforms that will not only put our next presidential nominee in the strongest position possible, but will help us elect Democrats up and down the ballot, across the country.”

The change will prohibit superdelegates from voting for president at the party’s 2020 convention, unless the outcome is already assured or it deadlocks, which hasn’t happened in decades. The vast majority of superdelegates sided with Hillary Clinton over Sanders in their primary fight two years ago.

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The new rules will also make caucuses more accessible by requiring state parties to accept absentee votes, addressing concerns that the caucuses are less democratic than primaries because they require people to physically attend the events in order to participate in the presidential nominating process in their state.

A number of state parties are already considering replacing their caucuses with primaries, with some state party chairs here predicting the 2020 nominating contest will feature many fewer caucuses than in 2016.

It's being touted as a big deal and a vast improvement, but we just have to wait and see what actually happens. At this point, we have only the speculation of good things to come.

One annoying little voice in my head says, "Congratulations, Dems - you're now one step closer to the kind of mob rule we're seeing on the Repub side".