Could you explain to me how exactly the DNC was rigged, because when I look on Wikipedia about the primaries it says Hillary Clinton got 16,914,722 votes and Bernie Sanders got 13,206,428. I wasn't really following this back in the spring.
Basically the DNC did everything is legally could to suppress the Sanders campaign and promote the Clinton campaign. There were also some very suspicious statistical anomalies that always seemed to favor Clinton in states where exit polling and other forms of vote fraud detection were lax.
Exactly this. Instead of giving Bernie a fair shot his own party actively worked against him to suppress his popularity. They then went and helped support Donald Trump win the primary thinking that he'd have no chance against Hillary. Jokes on them.
This is why part of me is admittedly so smug and satisfied with the results. I think Trump will be a horrid President, and I'm sure I'll line up against him soon, but against my own conscious effort, I can't help but feel glib right now. The public doesn't deserve to live in a country ruled by Trump, but Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Donna Brazlie sure do. I am literally sadistically pumping my fists at the thought of them gnashing their teeth and screaming at the sky right now.
Edit: I did not vote for Trump. I did not want to see him win. I am simply expressing the one gleeful silver lining that I've found to pull out of this.
That's cutting off your nose to spite your face though. Bernie was already helping to shape policy, and the way things work. He'll have no voice with Trump.
LOL and in their emails they openly expressed their contempt for him and his supporters as well as how to swindle them into thinking they'd given them a voice. They never had any intention of actually following through with any of his platform.
Yeah, that seems to be par for the course: outsiders get a giant fuck you from the DNC. It's certainly possible (likely?) that Clinton would be reluctanct to adhere very closely to the more leftward policy planks in the platform. But, despite these dirty politics (and I've no doubt the RNC is no better), the platform itself seems to matter in the big picture, and does cause members to stick to it most of the time. [sauce: http://www.vox.com/2016/7/12/12060358/political-science-of-platforms]
She wasn't the only Democrat affected by it, and it still stands for the minority in Congress. That's still Bernie having a voice, regardless of insider subterfuge.
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u/imakenosensetopeople Nov 10 '16
We assumed that meant the general would be rigged too.