Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President

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325. What lesson? Only allow white men to vote?

I am sick to fucking death of this self-entitled bullshit. The dates on those DNC emails were changed. It's not bad enough we spent the election inundated with Kremlin propaganda, but you repeat it even today--propaganda created and disseminated by Kremlin to put a White Nationalist in the White House.
You have to know those emails were changed. Eichenwald has reported on it. http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044 Those emails were written long after it was clear Sanders had LOST.

Almost every email that set off the “rigged” accusations was from May 2016. (One was in late April; I’ll address that below.) Even in the most ridiculous of dream worlds, 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, elected officials and party regulars who controlled thousands of votes, 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. That Sanders fans were wishing for an establishment overthrow of the electorate more common in banana republics or dictatorships is obscene. (One side note: Sanders supporters also made a big deal out of the fact that many of the superdelegates had expressed support for Clinton early in the campaign. They did the same thing in 2008, then switched to Obama when he won the most pledged delegates. Same thing would have happened with 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. Once only one candidate can win the nomination, of course the DNC gets 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 they could still win—something that added to their increasingly embittered feelings.

According to a Western European intelligence source, Russian hackers, using a series of go-betweens, transmitted the DNC 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—just a couple of days before Democrats gathered in Philadelphia, the emails came out, and suddenly the media was loaded with stories about trauma in the party. Crews of Russian propagandists—working through an array of Twitter accounts and websites, started spreading the story that the DNC had stolen the election from Sanders. (An analysis provided to Newsweek by independent internet and computer specialists using a series of algorithms show that this kind of propaganda, using the same words, went from Russian disinformation sources to comment sections on more than 200 sites catering to liberals, conservatives, white supremacists, nutritionists and an amazing assortment of other interest groups.) The fact that the dates of the most controversial emails—May 3, May 4, May 5, May 9, May 16, May 17, May 18, May 21—were after it was impossible for Sanders to win was almost never mentioned, and was certainly ignored by the propagandists trying to sell the “primaries were rigged” narrative. (Yes, one of them said something inappropriate about his religious beliefs. So a guy inside the DNC was a jerk; that didn’t change the outcome.) Two other emails—one from April 24 and May 1—were statements of fact. In the first, responding to Sanders saying he would push for a contested convention (even though he would not have the delegates to do so), a DNC official wrote, “So much for a traditional presumptive nominee.” Yeah, no kidding. The second stated that Sanders didn’t know what the DNC’s job actually was—which he didn’t, apparently because he had not ever been a Democrat before his run.

Bottom line: The “scandalous” DNC emails were hacked by people working with the Kremlin, then misrepresented online by Russian propagandists to gullible fools who never checked the dates of the documents. And the media, which in the flurry of breathless stories about the emails would occasionally mention that they were all dated after any rational person knew the nomination was Clinton’s, fed into the misinformation.

And even if the dates hadn't been changed. How do you figure the views of a couple of DNC staffers changed the votes of 4 million Democrats? The DNC, whose entire fundraising total for the year, including for the Convention, was only 1/10 of what Sanders' was for the primary alone. How exactly do you think those DNC staffers convinced 16 million Democrats to vote for Clinton, to ignore $180 million dollars worth of corporate ad buys from the Sanders campaign? What exactly is this magical influence the DNC has?

Then there is the fact that the people claiming DNC staffers "stole" the primary from Bernie, denying his birthright, deny that the multi-billion dollar Kremlin operation had any influence. Such an argument is more than hypocritically, it's morally and intellectually bankrupt. It reveals an impenetrable sense of entitlement that denies and disrespects the rights of the majority of Democratic voters, who just coincidentally are overwhelmingly people of color and women and therefore have substantially less wealth and privilege than themselves.

What the data in the article demonstrates is that Sanders attracted the support of white nationalists and others who identified race as their primary area of concern. Those are the people who voted for Trump. If they moved from Sanders to Trump, it's because they preferred a Nazi enabling, sexual predator and narcissist over a candidate and party that sought to represent all Americans rather than just the white male middle class. Now you may badly want to see those voters dominate the party. You way prefer a party of tiki torch carrying Nazis to one comprised of women and people of color. But that's not the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is one that values the votes of all Americans, not just the white, affluent, and privileged.

Bernie ran on the Democratic ticket by running against the Democratic Party. People who hated the Democratic party and ESPECIALLY Democratic voters could well have found him appealing, but that doesn't mean they were ever going to vote for a Democrat. There are some right-wing fucks who were once Democrat but now pretend to be progressive, who hate progress and hate the fact the Democratic party does not focus on white men to the exclusion of everyone else. The say the Dem party left them, and they are right. It left them in 1965. It left them again with the election of a black man as president, but when they nominated a woman, that was too much for the knuckle-draggers to take.

If those fascists who voted for Trump (or Stein, Johnson, or did a ratfuck write in) point to Kremlin doctored emails as an excuse, they are LYING. They voted for Trump because they hate people of color, because their limp dicks shriveled up when faced with a strong, competent woman, 1000x more accomplished than they will ever be.

You have had every opportunity to stop spreading Kremlin propaganda. The truth about those emails has been known for a very long time now, as long as a year. Yet you insist on repeating lies, lies propagated by the Kremlin in order to undermine American democracy and install a White Nationalist regime in the White House. Yet you repeat it anyway, with no concern for truth, with no concern for the fact that it is one of the many lies that put a Nazi in the White House. And here you are, insisting the DNC ought to "learn the lessons" so as to win back the Nazi vote.

November, 2016, America stood at a historic crossroads. 67 million of US stood up against fascism. The rest chose fascism. They chose racism and sexual predation and narcissism because that is who they are.
When people wonder how Germans could allow someone like Hitler to rise to power, they need look no further than this past year. And here you are, repeating the very propaganda that put him there, even after the tiki torch mobs and deaths from hate crimes. It is unconscionable, reprehensible.