Disintegrating Democrats in disarray

The people of the Chelsea and Dexter areas can be very proud of themselves.
With voter participation in Tuesday’s primary election running in the 25 to 30 percent range — and more in some precincts, we outdid the overall county turnout of 22.6 percent.
That’s pretty remarkable, when you consider the voter turnout in an ordinary primary struggles to reach double digits.
Perhaps it’s the extraordinary nature of this particular election.
I hope the head honchos of the state Democratic Party realize that, in their rush to change the rules in order to be among the first states to have a primary, they may have fallen victim to the Law of Unintended Consequences.
It sounded like a good idea at first: to have more of a say in determining a front-runner going into the summer convention, but the national party laid down such punitive restrictions that we ended up with a choice of Hillary, Dennis, Chris, Mike and Uncommitted, whoever that was.
Clinton was the only candidate of stature on the ballot, Barack Obama decided not to waste his time and money here, Kucinich is more of a perennial punchline than a viable candidate, and the other guys were just names taking up space.
Worse, Uncommitted got more votes than Clinton.
Not one of democracy’s shining moments.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have for years aligned myself more closely to Democrats than Republicans, but it became clear in this election what my GOP friends have been trying to tell me for years.
Democrats (or the party leaders, more specifically) don’t seem to have a clue.
Republicans may not agree with each other on a lot of things, but at least they’re all going in the same general direction while they debate those differences.
They come up with a plan, and they stick to it.
Apparently Democrats are so concerned these days with accommodating every possible viewpoint that they are incapable of developing a coherent, recognizable viewpoint at all.
They don’t have a plan, and they can’t agree on a plan on how to come up with one.
It makes me wonder: If this is the best way they can run an election, how in the world would they run the country?