One has to wonder why the super delegates or the party elders don't force Hillary out of the race. It is clear that she is ultimately not going to win the nomination. Even people inside her campaign have indicated it's a long shot.
So why don't the Reids and Pelosi's step in and end the fight?
It has to do, my friends, with (ironically) the reason I'm not a libertarian (or Libertarian): The Tragedy of the Commons
What is the "tragedy of the commons?" This is an economic phenomenon first observed (or at least chronicled) by William Forster Lloyd in 1833. The idea is rather simple. The best analogy is why we have littering: no one feels sufficient ownership of our shared lands to feel the benefits from not littering.
Let me cast the idea in terms of our current situation:
Consider a super delegate's point of view: if s/he were to step in now, the net benefit for hir personally is rather small. It is true that the party will benefit greatly, but not the individual.
So for each super delegate, individually, the thought is: let's wait it out.
What Hillary can do is in effect boil the frog here, slowly keeping the process going while the individual benefit to a party leader or super delegate stays significantly lower than the net benefit to the entire Democratic Party.
That's her strategy, she's doing it well.
Oh and then again, we could have LEADERSHIP that would look beyond the end of their own noses, step up and put an end to this freaking nightmare ............ naaaaaah!