thus curate the illusion of “choice.”

They wouldn’t allow you to vote? I don’t think so.

Look at how preemptively allocating super delegates impacted Bernie’s progress in 2016.

There was no impact at all. First of all “allocating super delegates” was a process added to the party charter in the 1980’s. The number of DNC members of 2016 that had anything to do with that was zero. 2nd, Clinton had a majority of elected delegates in 2016. So super delegates made no difference. You know that Bernie was a super delegate right?

The platform and policies you so brazenly discount as unimportant is the very premise on which voters decide to elect.

LOL. I bet you don’t know one single sentence of the 2024 Party Platform. I don’t any either. Unfortunately voters don’t even look at the candidates real published platforms, which they definitely should be doing. Like Harris 82 page PDF of policy positions.

The DNC doesn’t matter because it only introduces the public to candidates?

It doesn’t even do that much. The candidates introduce themselves to the public. Their main job is to hold the primary votes. If you are someone who volunteers to work for the Democratic Party at the local level, then yes, the DNC is the ultimate boss of your volunteer organization. If you are someone who gets a paycheck from the government, like congressmen and senators, then no the DNC is not your boss. Congressmen do have leaders who can punish them by taking away their committee assignments and making them bored at their jobs. Those leaders are the Democratic Caucus leaders.

And are you also arguing that the DNC cannot support primary challengers

They NEVER do that. They can play a small role sometimes. They have been known to occasionally choose a candidate to fund in a congressional primary when there is no Democratic incumbent. And they shouldn’t do that IMO. But once a Democratic candidate becomes an elected incumbent the DNC has no leverage whatsoever over them.

to replace Democrats that “don’t give a shit” about party strategy and unity?

The DNC has no leverage whatsoever. It is the leadership of the House and Senates Democratic Caucuses who have both the official job and the real job of party strategy and unity. And they have some real but also limited leverage, since they give out committee assignments. It is not uncommon for the DNC chairman to be a run of the mill rank and file congressmen who takes their orders from the Caucus Leader.

Is that your argument?

My argument is that “The DNC” had nothing whatsoever to do with the subject of this article. The “House Leaders” cited in this article were clearly the leaders of the Democratic Caucus, not “The DNC” as you were falsely claiming.