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PATRICK

(12,356 posts)
27. Since 2000
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 06:22 AM
Apr 2016

The salient issue, and suppressing black voters led and continued down the years to lead that salient, was just protecting the vote. From Bill Clinton and our awesome Senate to the unplanned run-ins with Theft 2016 structures, little has been even said and nothing done. They even gutted the VRA and campaign finance reform with barely a ripple in the party organization. The people being arrested now came from a populist movement to change Citizens United long before Bernie announced. Maybe Anonymous did something with the 2012 voting machines. certainly no professional Democrat did much of anything. What exactly is that profession anyway if it isn't about securing votes in all senses of the word?

No the theme this year was not even to have Dems at the polls at all and when surprisingly we have a contest outside the script, the point is moot that the real problems exposed are mostly due to rubbing up against strong voter suppression tactics cemented in by GOP crooks. And it's so damn obvious that unless the public can do anything about that themselves nothing will change at all. Of course no one talks about the voting machines and the man in the middle adjustment of the tallies, etc.

Which is why the "wise" script calls for an unopposed coronation and a Fall blowout and an obliging GOP poltroon candidate. A script written in erasable pencil it seems. Kerry and Obama and others were asked about the crooked giveaway of a margin or two to the GOP.
The kindergarten response: We are going to win very very big! If that was the case maybe they better make sure the candidate actually motivates that human wave of partially counted citizens and maybe try just a little bit to maybe make it a bit of an issue about our right to vote and maybe what treason actually means?

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Far too many voting problems..... daleanime Apr 2016 #1
you realize that these voting restrictions are state level politics, right? and that the justice La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #5
And that the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.... daleanime Apr 2016 #7
yes, none of which is status quo in Democratic politics. La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #8
I hope not, but every day I'm seeing and hearing.... daleanime Apr 2016 #9
seeing and hearing does not make things a fact. insinuating that HIllary Clinton La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #11
Brava! Bang on! JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #13
also it's nonsensical because the minority vote favors her, La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #14
You believe Hillary will not try and resolve the VRA disaster caused by the right? Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #6
There does seem to be a pattern emerging about what elections deserve outrage NuclearDem Apr 2016 #2
i think all of these voter ID laws deserve outrage La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #3
I concur. blm Apr 2016 #4
+1! eom BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #20
Ah - you have noticed that BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #21
The immediate rage has died down after the primary. Half-Century Man Apr 2016 #10
was there rage though? i have not been on DU has much, so i might have missed it La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #12
Ah, I'm on the ground in Wisconsin. Half-Century Man Apr 2016 #23
because the anguish had nothing to do with voting rights JI7 Apr 2016 #15
that's what i thought. however, i haven't been aroudn much La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #16
What was the outcome of the Wisconsin Democratic Primary Election? 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2016 #17
the establishment did not steal the election (this time) La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #18
And we were told . . . JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #19
when it was brought up as one of the things eric holder was working on JI7 Apr 2016 #24
Exactly JustAnotherGen Apr 2016 #26
Not just you ismnotwasm Apr 2016 #22
No, it wasn't just you, and we can all guess why this was so. pnwmom Apr 2016 #25
Since 2000 PATRICK Apr 2016 #27
There is outrage over new York ahead of time JI7 Apr 2016 #28
sore losers. nt La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2016 #29
I'm not sure how much outrage there's been about it nationally, but there certainly has been a fair WIProgressive88 Apr 2016 #30
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