Michael Bloomberg’s campaign is the most important in a generation.

Bloomberg is the only one capable of delivering what Democrats want. A more representative system.

In 1968 — when Michael Bloomberg was just 26 — some members of the Democrat Party were so fed up, they nominated a 145lb pig called Pigasus to share the stage with other party grandees. Theatrics aside, the Convention that year marked a low point in relations between the party and its members. How was the current system fair, they asked? Something needed to change.

Johnson, whose Presidency had been killed off by Vietnam, had confirmed he wasn’t running, and the assassination of both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy earlier that year had contributed to a volatile and violent environment.

In addition to fundamental disagreements within the party over domestic and foreign policy, there was a growing unrest over how Democrat candidates were selected in the first place. Members were disillusioned with a system they saw as unfair, undemocratic, and unrepresentative.

Eight years earlier, in 1960, John F. Kennedy — the eventual election winner — tried to change this. He ran in all sixteen primaries, winning ten of them, and securing nearly one third of the popular vote. Kennedy understood he was…