For months now, I've been searching for the perfect piece of YouTube flotsam to sum up my feelings about the noisy and petulant endgame of the Democratic presidential primary process.

This is it:

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(I am Michael Palin as Mr. Bounder, right about at the four-minute mark of the video, in case you were wondering.)

The latest chapter came at this weekend's Democratic state convention in Nevada, where the Sanders faction went completely bananas because the rules by which you had to be a Democrat to participate in a Democratic convention were simply too much for them to bear. Senator Barbara Boxer got booed. Punches and chairs were thrown.

Per The Washington Post, with cool video:

Nevada's process for sending delegates to the national convention in Philadelphia is among the most complex. When the state caucused in late February, the fourth state on the calendar for the Democratic Party, the results of that process favored Hillary Clinton. Twenty-three of the 35 total bound delegates were given out proportionally in the state's four congressional districts, giving Clinton a delegate lead of 13 to 10. The results of the caucus suggested that after the state convention—which bound the state's seven at-large delegates and five delegates who are elected officials or party leaders—Clinton would end up with a 20-to-15 lead over Bernie Sanders, with Clinton winning one more delegate from the at-large pool (4-to-3) and one more from the party-leader pool (3-to-2) than Sanders.

First of all, who elects anybody with a system that apparently was designed at a marmoset technical college? This sounds like something Kim Jong-Il would have thought up on the golf course between his 11th and 12th holes-in-one.

Second, the ill-feeling in this election began when Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the mysteriously still-employed chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, rather transparently tried to grease the skids for Hillary Rodham Clinton way back in 2015.

In addition, there was more than a little disinformation being spread on the electric Twitter machine; some enterprising gnome tweeted out that the Sanders contingent booed Nina Turner, a Sanders loyalist who has been the best surrogate on either side.

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I was not booed @JonathanDBrown Folks were upset w/process #nvdemsconvention leaders. I was shown love by @BernieSanders supporters today. — Nina Turner (@ninaturner) May 14, 2016

That being said, this whole mess was over four freaking delegates, and the Sanders people should know better than to conclude what has been a brilliant and important campaign by turning it into an extended temper tantrum.

I voted for Bernie Sanders. I even wrote about why I did here at this very shebeen. But if anybody thinks that, somehow, he is having the nomination "stolen" from him, they are idiots.

And, no, I don't want to talk about it.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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