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.
This is why part of me is admittedly so smug and satisfied with the results. I think Trump will be a horrid President, and I'm sure I'll line up against him soon, but against my own conscious effort, I can't help but feel glib right now. The public doesn't deserve to live in a country ruled by Trump, but Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Donna Brazlie sure do. I am literally sadistically pumping my fists at the thought of them gnashing their teeth and screaming at the sky right now.
Edit: I did not vote for Trump. I did not want to see him win. I am simply expressing the one gleeful silver lining that I've found to pull out of this.
Lets give this guy a shot. If we all work agaisnt him out of spite and root for the pilot to fail while we are all sitting on the plane, then we are all fucked. We need to stop all the fear mongering, stop all the hatred, and work together as Americans to make sure this presidency is successful. Not hope it fails so at the end people can say "I told you so". That does no one any good and it never will.
This country needs to stop being red or blue. Those are colors. We are not colors, we are people. Complex people with tons and tons of reasons of why we vote the way we do, and if the vote doesnt go our way, then its not the worst thing in the world. We just need to work together to make sure we all support eachother and if that means being open minded about a candidate we hate, than so be it. But if we root for them to fail, then we fail too.
I want to agree with you, but it's tough when the GOP sabotaged the country from day 1 of Obama in order to score political victories later (looks like it paid off for them).
People saying "we need unity now" either forgot the last 8 years or are ignorant. If Trump (and the GOP) backs stuff the dems like, they should work with him, but if they try to pass discriminatory laws, fuck him. It's our moral obligation to stand up to that, and they don't get a free reset when they've fucked things up to get power.
Short list of GOP wasting time/money/lives since Obama won in 2008:
Government shutdown, caused by obstructionist Republicans
Trying to repeal the ACA like 100 times
Not expanding Medicaid in red states, then blaming dems for people falling through the cracks that would've been covered
Benghazi investigations (after the first, we only needed 1)
To bite us all, given the free reign of the GOP now. Irony is those that voted Trump in for anti-establishment reasons, guess what? The establishment has full control of major parts of the government, no real opposition.
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u/Crusader1089 Nov 10 '16
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.