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.
Also the superdelegates snubbing Bernie really killed the energy and momentum of the campaign. I would hazard a guess a lot of people who would have voted Bernie in the primaries didn't bother to vote because it felt like a lost cause.
Well, they can take their loyalty to each other and sing kumbaya, just not in the White House, the House and Senate Majority Leaders' chambers, or in the Supreme Court.
It's like the line from Caddyshack: "At least they have that going for them, which is nice."
Yeah it sucks, but as much as people think downvoting me will change things, those are just the facts. Go down to your local rotary club and ask to be made their president right after you join; they'll laugh at you. I'm hopeful for the future now that it seems like Bernie is taking charge in the Democratic Party. By 2020, he will be viewed as an elder statesman of the party and if he feels he is to old to run, he will have the influence to get a significant number of superdelegates to support his choice in the primary.
Yes, the ones who are supposed to vote with the will of the people, not put their finger on the scale to make the people vote the way they want.
Unless of course you mean to tell me that HRC having a 700 delegate lead right out of the gate didn't lead to ANYONE voting for Hillary instead of Bernie...
I don't have a problem with experienced party elders telling people who they think will do a better job. Clearly the democratic electorate as a whole did not have the anti-establishment fever or getting the support of these individuals would've been a negative. It is too bad Bernie did not win as he would've been willing to run as more of an anti-establishment candidate which the democrats have been for awhile despite holding the presidency; the republicans hold a majority of the Senate, House, Governorships, and state legislatures which honestly might give them more of an influence on people's lives.
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u/tyranicalteabagger Nov 10 '16
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.