We just fucking cannibalize each other fucking ourselves over and over.

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259. "Sanders could not have possibly won the nomination after May 3 -- at that point, he needed 984

more pledged delegates, but there were only 933 available in the remaining contests. And political pros could tell by the delegate math that the race was over on April 19, since a victory would require him to win almost every single delegate after that, something no rational person could believe. Sanders voters proclaimed that superdelegates could flip their support and instead vote for the candidate with the fewest votes. In other words, they wanted the party to overthrow the will of the majority of voters.

"Sanders supporters also made a big deal deal out the fact that most of the superdelegates had expressed support for Clinton early in the campaign. They [superdelegates] did the same thing in 2008, then switched to Obama when he won the most pledged delegates. Same thing would have happened to Sanders if he had persuaded more people to vote for him. This is important because it shows Sanders supporters were tricked into believing a false narrative. Only one candidate can win the nomination, of course the DNC got to work on that person's behalf. Of course emails from that time would reflect support for the person who would clearly be the nominee. And given that their jobs are to elect Democrats, of course DNC officials were annoyed that Sanders would not tell his followers he could not possibly be the nominee. Battling for the sake of battling gave his supporters a false belief that he could win -- something that added to their increasingly embittered feelings.

"Russian hackers, using a series of go-betweens, transmitted the emails to WikiLeaks with the intent of having them released on the verge of the Democratic convention in hopes of sowing chaos. And that's what happened ... . Crews of Russian propagandists ... started spreading the story that the DNC had stolen the election from Sanders. ... In the real world, here'a what happened: Clinton got 16.9 million votes in the primaries, compared with 13.2 million for Sanders. The rules were never changed to stop him, even though Sanders supporters started calling for them to be changed as his loses piled up."

Kurt Eichenwald

http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044