Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Sanders Precinct Capt. in Iowa: Hillary Clinton does not lead the Democratic Primary! [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)The overall Media Collusion with the top leadership of a dominant party ends democracy.
But although democracy may be ended, the MIC and Surveillance State doesn't care about democracy - they care that they have their puppet in office.
This is a two pronged approach.
Examine how it is that George W got his re-election to become the law of the land in Nov 2004:
Andrew Card, Chief of Staff to President George W Bush, may well live to regret his announcements at 5 AM on Nov. 3rd. But at the time he was exultant at what the voting machines had wrought. His voice rang out resonant and a tad bit festive, happily victorious, "I'm Andy Card. I am President Bush's chief of staff. We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral college votes. And he also had a margin of more than three and a half million votes. President Bush's decisive margin of victory makes this the first Presidential election since 1988 in which the winner received a majority of the popular vote. And that in this election, President Bush received more votes than any other presidential candidate in the history of our country. In Ohio, the President has a lead of at least 136,000 votes. The Secretary of State's office has informed us that this margin is statistically insurmountable. So President Bush has won the state of Ohio."
What did Andrew Card know that John Kerry did not? Card knew who Kerry's real opponent was. Kerry thought his opponent in this election was George W. Bush. His real opponent was the rigged voting machines. If we the people of the United States possessed an election system with the integrity of Canada's paper ballot and pencil system, Kerry would be President. He was defeated by a modern technology so tamper friendly that major alterations to any district's vote tally could be made within 90 seconds and without leaving a trace.
It is not only that there was rampant vote tampering during the 2004 election process. Rather what needs to be carefully held to the light is how Bush's Chief of Staff, Andy Card, did something no other chief of staff had ever done - he announced to the major media the result of the nation's election before the votes were counted.
Did the Major Media outlets all say in response to his announcement: "Wait a minute. There are over 200,000 uncounted votes in Ohio alone. And those votes are mostly in Democratic strongholds, and they number enough to throw the election to John Kerry." ??
No of course not! Not a single Talking Head spoke out like that. If the George W White House itself wanted to announce that they had won, well, why bother debating it!. Kerry was slated to lose, and it was important to make sure he lost before anyone realized maybe the election stunk to high heaven.
And then the Republicans utilized the same tactics in 2012. In that year, Ron Paul, an extremely popular GOP contender for the WH, when he started to make heavy inroads against Mitt Romney in the primaries that year, once again the victories were handed out via announcement. "We leaders of the Party announce the winner!"
Once again the Primary tallies in Iowa and New Hampshire and then all across the country were simply announced! Mitt won handily in all those many primaries, and the fact remains -
the winner of a Presidential contest and the winner of the Primary contests is always going to be the person who is announced as being the winner!
If you want Bernie to win, you and I and everyone who cares has to figure out a way around this!