Here's the Thing About the DNC Platform Committee

There is some brouhaha about how corporate shills are rife within the platform and rules committees.

Here's the dirty little secret: Nobody outside of the process gives a shit.

Here's why: Unless the party brass uses the rules to deny the nomination to the candidate who has the most delegates, it doesn't matter. Nobody gives a fuck about the "party platform". Whoever wins the nomination will run on whatever positions they choose. The only two functions of a party platform are to a) mollify the rubes who care about a particular issue , and b) give the other side something to lambaste the party about ("The Democrats want to abort into the sixth trimester"/"The Republicans want to issue M-4 carbines to fourth-graders").

The only vote(s) that matters is the one for the presidential candidate. Whoever wins that will get the veep candidate of their choice. The rest is eyewash and bullshit. For whoever wins the nomination will run on their own policy positions and those are what they may try to enact.