…here, from Matt Margolis’ article for pjmedia.com, are the new rules for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) when electing officers.
In reading this, please be assured it is not satire and there have been no revisions to make a point. It, so help me, is real:
During the party’s Winter Meeting this weekend, outgoing DNC chairman Jaime Harrison explained the party’s new rules for electing officers, and let’s just say it’s comedy gold.
“Rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced,” he explained. “With the results of the previous four elections, our elected officers are currently two male and two female.”
“In order to be gender balanced we must we must elect one male, one female and one person of any gender,” Harrison continued, before explaining how this stunningly convoluted process works. “The order of balloting is designed to ensure equal access to the ballot regardless of gender identity.” Because, you know, nothing says “democracy” like a rigged system to ensure equal gender representation for imaginary genders.
The funniest thing is that Harrison laid it all out with a straight face, apparently unaware of how ridiculous his words sounded or how absurd he looked explaining these rules.
“We will first ask members to elect a candidate of any gender on the first ballot. Any candidate, male, female, and non-binary, can be elected on that ballot.” Then the real fun begins. “After a candidate is elected on the first ballot, we’ll have one officer of the three. So we will now—so then we will know which position is filled of the one male, one female, and one Vice Chair of any gender.” Makes perfect sense, right?
But wait—there’s more! The second ballot will also be for a candidate of “any gender.” Then, and only then, will the final ballot determine whether the last spot must be filled by a man or a woman, depending on what’s already been decided.
In other words, the party that rails against gender discrimination has set up and formalized a procedure for electing officers that is specifically, unalterably based on gender quotas.
Forget qualifications. Forget experience. Forget everything but the correct percentage of male, female, and “non-binary” applicants. That comes first. Only then can you take other considerations into account – understanding, once again, that they are secondary to the gender quotas.
These are the people who OPPOSE gender discrimination?????
Think of it as another chapter in the How To Destroy A Formerly Viable Political Party handbook.
