2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I just read why 64 Bernie NV delegates had their credentials stripped--and I shed a tear or two [View all]trudyco
(1,258 posts)I had heard that the head of Bernie's campaign was somebody DWS had suggested so I had thought he was behind it, certainly not Bernie. As has been shown throughout this campaign, Bernie is a rare bird who sticks to his principles and that includes not cheating. Only the Clinton camp has shown that cheating is perfectly acceptable. It's like they took notes on what Bush did or got a Bush operative to help them and they've done it all. Affiliation flipping, caging, purging, hacking the vote counting machines per the exit poll vs vote count, then the fiasco in Nevada where they turned off the lights (at least they didn't turn off the sound system, but then it was her puppet running the show so they turned it up), trying to hide emails (didn't Bush use the RNC server?), deleting emails, then there is the DNC money laundering scheme and the Clinton Foundation quid pro quo. Lying to the FBI and tampering with evidence. Lying to the public. Oh yeah, and the disinformation campaign of Brock and the fact that his superpac commingles with her campaign - they can get away with it because the law didn't keep up with the internet, it's illegal for other forms of media. Skirting the illegal, disregard for the ethical. Stripping Democrats from their party affiliation and right to vote.
Is this really what long time Democrats at DU stand for? THIS is the Democratic Party?
And for those trying to claim it's DMV mistakes or people being stupid and changing their affiliation to Independent when they are a delegate for Sanders: like the Republicans claiming it's voter fraud when it's election fraud! It's deflecting it back to the victim. Clinton took notes on that, too! Don't blame the voters, especially the delegates. As Coffeecat explained, the delegates knew exactly what was expected of them. They would not have shifted party, especially after New York. No way. And the DMV story - funny how it's always the Sanders people who have this problem, kind of like how Sanders gets worse vote counts than the exit polls. The odds of that are, well, there should be a word in statistics to describe fraud.