We’re a couple of weeks past Super Tuesday-just the name of which is an insult to both the Super Bowl and Superman by the way, and anything genuinely super, like glue. But never mind that now.

Before we leave the political world of what’s super and what’s not, let me add it’s also offensive that there is such a thing as super-delegates, who exist only to counter the effect of plain-old regular delegates. (You know, the ones that were elected.) Super-delegates are the crassest kind of machine politics. The ignorant and naive voters cast their ballots for delegates they want in the childish belief they’ll actually be represented by them. That’s the way it should stand in a republic like ours, which is what we are, a republic, not a democracy. In a republic, you see, we vote for delegates and electors and congressmen and senators, and then they go off to do for us what we don’t have time to do for ourselves. Like fly to France.

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