Who cares about democracy now?

While the recounts and court cases were going on in 2000, Democrats played it as if they were trying to save democracy and only cared about getting the vote correct. Which at the time was false, since one of the Democratic motions was to just recount certain counties in Florida, but the situation was pretty much just rooting for the home team.

Liberal website "Open Left" admits that a large number of Democrats have little concern for democracy, the Clinton and Obama partisans just care about their own home teams. Chris Bowers writes about team Clinton and team Obama:

What I am not convinced of is the campaigns themselves, by extension many
of the activist supporters whom those campaigns lead, are respecting democracy.
Specifically, it is remarkable how quickly a statement of
principles--partisanship only derives from intra-party democracy--turns into an
argument over Clinton and Obama.

He also adds

Still, among many of those who dominate our public discourse in the party,
I'm starting to see that there is no actual democracy in the Democratic Party,
only Clinton and Obama. The arguments we are witnessing have nothing to do with
democracy, or party bylaws, or super delegates, or the will of voters, or the
rights of Michigan and Florida Democrats, or any of that.

And more

It is in this sense that we have already reached a crisis of legitimacy in
the Democratic Party nominee. Campaigns and supporters alike cherry pick
democratic principles as they see fit in order to better make the case for their
candidate.

Most of what Bowers said could have been applicable to Gore and Bush in 2000. Outrage is very selective on any side, be it Obama vs. Clinton, Republican vs. Democrat, or Duke vs. North Carolina. Rivalries often make people demonize the opponent while the self declared "good side" is nearly above reproach. It can be seen in the left with the ignorant "Bush=Hitler" signs, and on the right with conservatives who think homosexuals are monsters and liberals hate America.