Wake up, voters

The March 31 editorial from the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (“Caucuses not same as election”) dinged some Bernie Sanders supporters for “naively clinging to the belief that it (the Washington state Democratic Party caucus) is a democratic process and therefore their guy should be awarded about 75 percent of all the state’s delegates.”

It then noted the unfairness of the superdelegate concept, “a perk of power” designed “so party leaders can maintain some control at the National Convention this summer,” and advised the reader not to “count on the party leaders to make any changes.”

This assessment is correct. Unless voters wake up, decide that having their collective will pre-empted by the Democrat establishment is corrupt, and make their displeasure known to the Democratic National Committee and their elected representatives, no change will occur and the current political mindset that views “one man, one vote” as a quaint proletariat notion from the past will continue to prevail.

It is past time for Democrats to end this “perk” and move back toward real democracy.

David Fietz

Springdale, Washington