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We are deep in the election season now. Hillary and Barack are duke-ing it out nationally with the next installment due in a few weeks when the Pennsylvania primary is held. There is also an ongoing serial of the Florida – Michigan debacle. What to do so that the voters of those two states will be included as real voting citizens by the Democrats. Recently, here in Texas the fact of the caucus and its importance in the Democratic nomination process was amplified by the contentiousness of the elections. In the twenty years I have lived here I have never seen any other public information encouraging voters to participate, though I was generally aware of the process. When I asked some precinct leaders about it, they advised that it was rare that regular voters participated in the caucuses. When you consider the “superdelagates” that are mostly elite insiders and the discrete caucus procedure it appears that the elite of the party do not believe that “We the people” should choose our leaders but really wants to dictate the outcome of elections – or should we say that they want to coronate their royalty.  More »