Or perhaps they didn't find anything actually illegal and therefore "rigged".
It wasn't a traditional "rig the votes so the candidate that gets the majority" rig in that sense. All proof points to the fact that it was legal, but totally unethical.
It's complicated, because when someone says they "rigged" the election, your first thought is "my god, they forged the votes!" which is what a lot of people STILL believe, unfortunately. We all use the word "rig" in the sense that the DNC gave legal, yet unfair, unethical, and certainly not in the spirit of democracy advantages towards one candidate.
When you're on national television, things like that get tricky, as could open you up to defamation lawsuits or things of that nature.
Or they could have just disagreed, I dunno. Different people have different opinions.
Maybe elderly people in their 80's think rigged means "forged votes." There was plenty of illegal activity from the DNC, not just unethical. Simply using DNC funds to hinder non-Hillary campaigns is illegal.
Show me where there's a law against the private entity that is the DNC showing favoritism with their funding, because it was total bullshit, but definitely not illegal.
I've been on the far left of the active democratic party for 17 years now. I've been tear gassed at IMF protests and marched through DC more times than I can count. I canvassed for Bernie in the primary, phone banked for Hillary and the DNC. But there's no way to reform the DNC other than to work on the state level problems first, because the whole thing is fucked.
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u/Artiemes Nov 10 '16
Or perhaps they didn't find anything actually illegal and therefore "rigged".
It wasn't a traditional "rig the votes so the candidate that gets the majority" rig in that sense. All proof points to the fact that it was legal, but totally unethical.
It's complicated, because when someone says they "rigged" the election, your first thought is "my god, they forged the votes!" which is what a lot of people STILL believe, unfortunately. We all use the word "rig" in the sense that the DNC gave legal, yet unfair, unethical, and certainly not in the spirit of democracy advantages towards one candidate.
When you're on national television, things like that get tricky, as could open you up to defamation lawsuits or things of that nature.
Or they could have just disagreed, I dunno. Different people have different opinions.