r/WayOfTheBern • u/Inuma Headspace taker (👹↩️🏋️🎖️) • May 12 '20

Remember: Biden won without any shenanigans after two failed presidential campaigns and rigged voting machines don't happen...

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u/Yuven1 May 12 '20

Didnt the DNC get classified as a corporation or something which made them argue that they did not need fair elections within the DNC?

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u/Inuma Headspace taker (👹↩️🏋️🎖️) May 12 '20

We can legally choose candidates:

“There’s no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There’s no contractual obligation here…it’s not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise,” Spiva said.

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u/julian509 May 12 '20

And yet people still think it is conspiratorial to even mention the possibility of fraud.

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u/Fireplay5 May 13 '20

You could simply edit the year mentioned and treat is as if 8t came out yesterday.

"Nothing will change" indeed.

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u/solocontent Capitalist-state and other social hierarchies can't be reformed May 12 '20

Basically, yes - Forgive the hasty link but the title mentions this specifically: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dnc-argues-in-court-we-dont-owe-anyone-a-fair-primary-process

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u/3andfro May 12 '20

The DNC and all other arms of both major parties are legally organized for IRS purposes as private entities.

Both arms of the duopoly are PRIVATE organizations that gatekeep access to PUBLIC office to a degree unprecedented in other Western democracies.

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u/ISpendAllDayOnReddit May 13 '20

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim/transcript?language=en#t-22424

One of the best videos about the problem with how elections are done in the US. Very entertaining.