Escape From Hillaryland

A day after Hillary's "great" victory in Puerto Rico, the Democratic Party is planning its escape from Hillaryland.

You know Hillaryland. The place where whatever Hillary wants to happen, can happen.

Right now, it's where more people have voted for her than any other candidate in the history of the universe. That's because in Hillaryland, invalidated primaries where her name alone remains on the ballot means...she won that contest! And all the votes go to her. And no one else. Because the others took their names off the ballot voluntarily. Even though they signed the pledge, along with Hillary, to not recognize that primary as legitimate. (Actually, that pledge happened outside of Hillaryland, in some place called the United States). Oh, and in Hillaryland, that popular vote total doesn't include any of the caucus states, because they don't count individual votes. Which is kind of lucky because Hillary got pretty well trounced in those states. But it's ok. In Hillaryland caucuses don't count. So she's recieved more votes than any person ever in any election ever...in the universe...ever.

By the way, in Hillaryland, the popular vote just became the new goalpost for victory. But it can be changed whenever she wants. The goalpost used to be pledged delegates, a long time ago. Everyone agreed it would be 2,025. But that didn't help Hillary, because she wasn't close to that. So she got it changed to 2,118. But now that new number hasn't helped her either. Wait... we just got a new directive: move the goalposts again...it's about stealing super delegates. Wow. Things come and go so fast in Hillaryland.

In Hillaryland, there's good talk of party unity. Party unity in Hillaryland means pointing out that the Republican nominee is more qualified to be the President than the other Democtratic nominee. It means crying sexism when people don't vote for you. It means threatening to take a resolved issue to the convention--to unresolve it. (Hey, that would be fun!)

Party unity also means Hillary will do everything in her power to support the eventual nominee. Which in Hillaryland, means her. The other people who are running in an election outside of Hillaryland, she... well, she supports them, too. And in Hillaryland, support means being able to say negative stuff like "He's got a real Latino problem"--without it being negative! Pretty cool, huh?

That's what's great about Hillaryland. If you can think of anything that will be good for Hillary, it will automatically happen. And nothing else matters.

Which is why the Democratic Party has had enough of Hillaryland. This became evident when the Democratic Rules and By-laws Committee actually ventured into Hillaryland. They seated the Florida and Michigan delegates, legitimizing those two primaries, just as Hillary wanted. They awarded the bulk of the delegates to Hillary. But that was as far across the border as they were going. They gave each delegate only a half vote (as punishment for violating the timing window of the early primaries) and they awarded Barack Obama Michigan delegates, even though his name was not on the ballot. Apparently, there were enough votes to actually pass the Obama solution, which would have meant splitting the Michigan delegates 50-50. But the Obama folks, in the interest of real party unity, went with the more generous proposal for Hillary. (Wow. That wouldn't have happened in Hillaryland). It was more than Hillary could have hoped for, yet she was angry that they didn't observe the rules of Hillaryland by giving her everything she wanted. 100% voting rights for 100% of the delegates. All of the Michigan delegates.

That's when the RBC knew it was time to leave Hillaryland.

And now, we'll see super delegates making their escape as well.

The reason Hillaryland is disturbing to many people is because it reveals a public servant who convinces herself of a narrative that is consistently contradicted by facts. And when that happens, the public servant becomes obssessed with a private agenda--often at the expense of the public's best interests.

That transformation never works out well in the end. Just ask the resident of... BushWorld.

So, yes, a 'great' victory for Hillary from the people of Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, turnout was low. Perhaps, many felt that if they couldn't vote in the general, (Puerto Rico is not a state) what was the point of voting in a primary.

Perhaps. Or maybe they were planning their escape from Hillaryland.