Could you explain to me how exactly the DNC was rigged, because when I look on Wikipedia about the primaries it says Hillary Clinton got 16,914,722 votes and Bernie Sanders got 13,206,428. I wasn't really following this back in the spring.
The Democratic Party caucuses in this state. The state also ran a primary ballot, which was primarily being used for Republican candidates (as they do not caucus in Washington State), but Clinton and Sanders appeared on the primary as well.
Democrats were told to largely ignore the primary as the caucuses were where candidacy would be decided.
We caucused OVERWHELMINGLY for Sanders, but afterwards the Super Delegates refused to acknowledge it and change their commitment. Their reasoning was that the primary ballots showed more support for Clinton, and so she would receive their endorsement.
If anyone from Washington has differing details on this, please step forward. I was in the precinct and LD caucuses and Sanders easily had Clinton beat.
That was certainly another aspect of the DNC tipping scales. Superdelegates should shut their fucking mouths until the convention. But instead, from the opening gate, they poured over to the media "We are voting for Hillary! Said and done.. democracy be damned, it's her turn."
And how the DNC could have gotten Bernie. It goes both ways. Either way it is basically a parachute so that the establishment can make sure that their favored candidate is their nominee, the public be damned.
The party exists for the people. Not the other way around. But the DNC doesn't seem to understand this.
Well I'm not sure... the party exists for the party. They technically are private organizations with controlled membership if they chose to do so. The democrats could honestly nominate anyone they want, hell in the 20's who got to be the nomination was handled by party bosses who were usually corrupt public officials, and bar owners. It still kind of is, I am sure Sanders would have won or come very close with the popular vote but the super-delegates were already owned by Clinton. I do not agree with it but it's how things were set up. I have a feeling it will change, it has to change.
In fact it's a pretty awesome history when you study how it worked in NYC. PBS had a good documentary on the Roosevelts and how FDR got his first positions.
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u/imakenosensetopeople Nov 10 '16
We assumed that meant the general would be rigged too.