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On March 26, Hawaii’s Democratic voters turned out in massive numbers, for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the party’s presidential preference poll.

Fortunately, Democratic National Committee party bosses created a mechanism to protect Hawaii voters against our bad judgement. To paraphrase Secretary Clinton’s mentor, Henry Kissinger, “The issues are much too important for the Hawaii Democratic voters to be left to decide for themselves.”

Of course, Kissinger and the Hawaii superdelegates are correct. Thank God for the superdelegate mechanism as a means to prevent an outbreak of excessive democracy.

The obvious question becomes, how can we extend the benefit of the superdelegates to other elections? Surely Hawaii’s Democrats are not just too stupid to decide who should be president? Why not use superdelegates to help pick the Hawaii Democratic nominee for governor? For the U.S. Senate?

I am therefore proposing we turn to Hawaii’s Democratic state senators and empower them to overrule, when necessary, the will of Democratic primary voters in the selection of our nominees for governor, U.S. Senate and Congress. Those offices are also important enough that we should safeguard them from the uninformed views of Hawaii’s Democratic voters.

Hawaiian’s 10 superdelegates represent 28.57 percent of our national delegate delegation. Since that obviously accounts for a reasonable amount of empowered wisdom, I suggest we grant the 24 Democratic state senators 28.57 percent of the voting strength in picking the governor and congressional nominees.

I propose we turn to Hawaii’s Democratic state senators and empower them to overrule, when necessary, the will of Democratic primary voters in the selection of our nominees for governor, U.S. Senate and Congress.

Had such a rule been in effect in the last election, then-Sen. David Ige still would have undoubtedly defeated Gov. Neil Abercrombie with the wise intervention of his Senate colleagues, providing an even greater margin of victory. But then U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa also would have undoubtedly defeated Sen. Brian Schatz, since the unwise, undereducated primary voters gave him only a small margin of victory over her.

In the Congressional District 1 primary of 2014, then state Rep. Mark Takai defeated state Sen. Donna Kim by 15 percent. Had her senate colleagues voted as a bloc for her, she might have won the nomination she obviously deserved, had the choice benefited from the divine intervention afforded by superdelegates.

That so many Sanders supporters dislike the ability of superdelegates to trump the naive and more democratic principle of one person, one vote is a testament to how uninformed they are. Why should the Democratic Party feel obliged to be, well, “democratic” when we can rely upon our wise leaders to make the decision for us?

The pro-Clinton supporters of superdelegates are too timid. They should not only preserve superdelegates, they should extend the benefits to other, major Democratic nominations.

Like Hillary Clinton, I always focus my thinking by asking, “WWHK do?” (What would Henry Kissinger do?)