A certain blasé band of blogosphere pontificators are of the opinion that the matter of how Democratic superdelegates might affect their party’s nomination is just a faux “superfrenzy,” ginned up by the media and hyper-ventilating activists.

Their arguments go something like this: All you fools who are worried about the superdelegates need to chillax. After all, litte minions: You really don’t even understand the process.

Thing is, there are a great many people who do understand the process, and given that the race is as close as it is, and given that there are no rules stipulating how the so-called superdelegates should vote, we believe it’s vitally important to let the superdelegates know we’re watching.

Umm, that’s called participatory democracy. You know: Citizen engagement. Call it the public’s lobbying effort to make their voices and choices heard.

This is not to say we think candidates should not be allowed to lobby for superdelegate support—and even, we suppose, to pay for that support, as both Obama and Clinton have done. It’s all part of the game. So sure, the superdelegates can vote however they like. No one’s trying to change any rules.

But if the likes of Chelsea Clinton and Teddy Kennedy can be making their cases to the superdelegates, then certainly the public has a right to do the same.

It’s just not terribly practical to imagine that every concerned citizen could have a direct line to each and every one of the now 795 delegates (RIP Tom Lantos) designated as super, and I don’t imagine the supers would cotton to the idea of getting thousands of calls.

So the public can sign petitions. They can write in to their newspapers. They can start a blog. Rank-and-file folks can also participate in a project like the Superdelegate Transparency Project. It’s just a way for concerned citizens to engage, and give time to a project aimed at keeping this issue in the discourse, and which—when it’s over—will provide the Democratic party with some hard and interesting data about the effect the supers end up having on the nomination.

The point is, we can sit back and be blasé and talk about throwing pies, or we can be part of the political process and speak up for what we believe in.

No one is declaring the superdelegates are some nefarious bunch out to blatantly thwart the will of the people. But in a close race, and locked in a system that allows the superdelegates to change their minds and vote however they like—despite what pledges they may have offered up to date—right up until the very last moment when they are called upon to vote, there is cause for Democrats to be anxious about the outcome.

The volatility of this primary season thus far, and the mountains of inaccurate polls and predictions, tell me that anything can happen in the next few weeks. Obama’s momentum could have him sweeping through Hawaii, Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio and beyond over the next few weeks and the supers could all follow like lemmings. Or Clinton could find a way to jumpstart her own inevitability once more, and roll through the next primaries only to end up with the highest number of pledged delegates yet still not have a majority or win the popular vote. There are several scenarios that lead to the supers deciding this nomination.

Should citizens really just lay back and chill at a moment like this? No.

Now is the time to have our voices and choices heard, and to pay attention. Maybe the nomination system works. Maybe it needs to be reformed. But compiling the popular and pledged delegate votes, district by district, and tracking those results against how the supers end up voting will be a very useful set of data to have the next time we head into a primary season.

We’ll know exactly what effect the supers had on the nomination, and if they have constituents, whether they represented their wishes, or whether they went their own way.

It’s not “hyperventilating” to act on your beliefs, and to participate in your own democracy.

What I find so sad about the Blasé Band is that they once were so hot and bothered about issues they felt were being ignored or mishandled by government and/or media, that they started their blog to rally others to pay attention and take action.

And today, when their fellow citizens are collaborating on a project to do the very same thing, and to shed some light into the corners of our political process, all they can do is make jokes about throwing pies.

Congratulations, gals. I guess you’ve arrived.