The battle between Democrats is poised to continue, as it should. After listening closely to both personal and public discussions it becomes clear that some individuals talk on one side of an argument but then, in the midst of all the confusion, join the group that is promoting the other side.

Barack Obama’s campaign is insistent that the battle is over. It strikes a similar sense to me as when Republicans last year were insisting that Hillary Clinton was their choice as an opponent for them in the fall election. The reality is the Republicans have always been in awe and frightened of Mrs. Clinton. She was not who they wanted to be running against. Evidently, Mr. Obama, and some other Democrats, feel the same. They are now using the same mentality that the Republicans were using as they try desperately to create their own reality. The reality is, the battle for the Democratic nominee, is not over.

There is suddenly such a rage about the purpose and power of super delegates in the Democratic party. One individual told me recently that super delegates get to cast a vote that counts one thousand times to the regular delegates one vote. How democratic is that, he asked. I ask, where does this type of misinformation come from? Evidently, the anger and sense of frustration that results because an organization is not set up in a purely democratic way, manifests itself into this perception of a thousand fold injustice.

Similar discussion and confusion prevails every four years about the electoral college.

The truth is, that this is just a party issue. If the Democrats choose a nominee that other members of the party are not happy with, then their candidate can run for office as a member of another party. This is not the general election. Each party uses their own rules to identify the candidate that they believe will promote their platform and win in the general election. The real injustice would not be that the super delegates play a role and elect Hillary Clinton. The real injustice would be if the process stopped now.

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