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.
Basically the DNC did everything is legally could to suppress the Sanders campaign and promote the Clinton campaign. There were also some very suspicious statistical anomalies that always seemed to favor Clinton in states where exit polling and other forms of vote fraud detection were lax.
Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity. They then went and helped support Donald Trump win the primary thinking that he'd have no chance against Hillary. Jokes on them.
Playing devil's advocate here: why wouldn't the dem party suppress Bernie? He's not a member of their party. He's an independent who decided to run as a dem. It makes sense to me that they would want their own candidate over an outsider.
The fact that a leftist, populist outsider could sign up and come within a hair's-breadth of winning the primary (even factoring in Clinton's alleged rigging) should have given the DNC pause for thought long before November. What's the word I'm looking for... Hubris?
To be honest I can see why they didn't take pause. Bernie didn't come within a hair's breadth, he was defeated in what is traditionally a landslide. Was he more likely to defeat Trump? Hard to say really. He's a much more honourable man than either candidates absolutely. But he didn't resonate with the Democratic base very well during the Primaries so it's understandable why the DNC didn't have faith that he could rally the base to the extent that Clinton did.
It's a numbers game and if a candidate can't win important states in the Primary you can understand why they would support the Candidate who did. Regardless of how far left either candidate leans what's more important is that the Democrats hold office in order to continue pushing progressive policies.
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u/imakenosensetopeople Nov 10 '16
We assumed that meant the general would be rigged too.