The superdeligate arrangement is obviously antidemocratic, but there's also a problem with rebuilding the ship after it has set sail. A temporary fix could be to create the convention that the superdeligates (SDs), as a body, will always affirm the vote of the seated, popularly elected delegates. Here's how I see it happening. The national convention would change its bylaws so that the seated, elected delegates vote as a body first, and then the superdelegates vote as a body second. There would then be two incentives for the SDs to ratify the popularly-elected delegates' vote. First, the SDs would want to avoid an epic trainwreck that would cripple the party for a generation. Second, if the SDs as a body voted against the elected delegates, the SDs would be individually and collectively on the record opposing the popular will. This, of course, could lead to the abolition of SDs and an end to their individual political careers. Although unstable, conventional arrangements like this can work. Conventional rules guide the relationship between the Queen and the UK Parliament, the relationship between the Houses of Lords and Commons, and the relationship between the Westminster Parliament and the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh assemblies.
