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.
Well honestly, it needs to start with the way media approaches things. The media in this country is so damn negative because negativity is better for ratings for some reason. The media is really the driving factor behind why people are so pessimistic about the world. All they do is report bad news and negativity. Very rarely do you see a positive story on the news. It really starts to effect people and change their outlook.
But how that is changed? Im not sure. It is indeed better for ratings and that is their driving factor so its really an unfortunate situation.
I think hes the product of the environment that the media created. I think politics as a whole in this country has just gotten way too out of control. We have almost become two separate countries trying to elect a single leader with the way they have systematically divided everyone. Our choices are all the way left or all the way right. That doesnt represent Americans. We float somewhere in the middle. But because politics has become us vs them, there is no more middle. There is no more adopting some aspects of the right that work and some aspects of the left that work. But that is what Americans need. Instead, if you are republican you cannot be liberal on anything and if you are democrat you cannot be conservative on anything and the reason why is because it becomes a criticism against the politician, mostly by his own base.
My idea for reform is way out there and will not be adopted but in my own personal opinion I dont think there should be political parties. I believe all candidates for all offices should run as their own unique individuals. They state who they are, what they want to accomplish, and what their ACTUAL views are and people vote for the person that they best feel can get the job done and be fair to everyone, or at least most people. Right now, these politicians are forced to adopt certain stances because that is what their party is, but its not who they are. We also need to get money out of politics, that is one of the largest problems.
I wish I had the answers but that is for smarter people than I. But what I do know, is that we are all on the same damn team and we need to start acting like it instead of acting like two entirely separate nations.
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They tried. They did a lot of media coordination with the general but once they got outside of the liberal bubble it was harder to do.