2016 Postmortem

To be quite honest, I have no idea what the (D) platform is.

Or why it much matters. It's like arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Why?

Because what happens if an elected official representing (D) (or the disloyal opposition, for that matter) violates the all-important Party Platform?

Take Obama, for instance. If he violated the platform, did something counter to what all Good Thinking Democrats must necessarily support because of their oath of fealty to it, would he be immediately disbarred from the Party? Would he be cast into the outer darkness that is Kansas, forbidden from treading the Sacred Corridors of the White House, cut off from the Lines of Power?

Would a simple memo of excommunication be sufficient to cause (R) to rejoice, in his banishment from the presidency for his act of disloyalty to the Platform of Justice and Goodness?

Hyperbole aside, it just goes to show that the platform is a nice feel-good document with rather less importance than my HOA regulations. If I violate the dicta from my HOA, I get a nasty letter.

A politician violates the Party Platform, nothing much happens except that perhaps he runs opposed next election. But that only matters if his constituents give a rat's arse about the platform, which in turn means that they have a clue what it says.