The Fix is in and media is starting to report it
Submitted by Scott Crowder on Mon, 03/28/2016 - 9:53am
Sorry my first Essay here is going to be short, but I've got to go to work and just ran across this article. The Countless Failings of the DNC. I highly recommend reading it.
The Democratic National Committee rigged the Democratic primaries to ensure Hillary Clinton would win the presidential nomination. Evidence suggesting this claim is overwhelming and, as the primaries progress, the DNC’s collusion with the Clinton campaign has become more apparent.
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It does bring up the question of Voter suppression...
If the DNC is serious about winning in November, they realize of course they're going to need to get every single vote they suppressed in the primary BACK in the General.
Fear ain't gonna do that. Especially with the Grudge Holding Gen-Xers.
Glad to see someone paying attention to this. Even if it is Overseas, because lord knows the MSM in this country wouldn't touch this with a 20 meter cattleprod.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Confused--isn't the Observer a NYC news source?
And honestly, I don't think they're worried about "getting every single vote they suppressed" back, because if things have become this noticeably crooked, then one could suppose that proprietary vote counting software will take care of that difference.
The Observer is owned
by Jared Kushner, who is Ivanka Trump husband and Donald Trump's son-in-law. There are all sorts of fixes in here. More fixes? Chelsea and Ivanka are BFF's.
The marriage between capitalism and democracy is over. –Slavoj Zizek
Maybe the DNC doesn't care that much about winning
As long as an establishment candidate wins
Beware the bullshit factories.
Maybe the DNC doesn't care that much about winning
As long as an establishment candidate wins
Beware the bullshit factories.
BINGO!!!! nt
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
The article highlights a
The article highlights a number of patterns that I had noticed -- insufficient ballots, the whole debate thing -- and some issues I was unaware of. To me, it seems pretty clear what has been going on.
However, I can imagine what HRC supporters would say: Bernie isn't even a real Democrat so why should the party support him? Drives me nuts when they say this but they think they are on the moral high ground.
He ran as a Dem, to keep from splitting the vote.
For their benefit. Perhaps they wish he would run as an Independent?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Well, HRC's behavior has split this voter
It will be a cold day in hell before I pull the lever for another Clinton. I am coming to believe she is worse than the clown car candidates in many ways...only Nixon could go to China.
I fear for what's left of The New Deal if HRC gains power.
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
There's nothing terribly "moral" about that high ground
When the Democrats in Congress no longer need Sanders vote for anything, then they can claim morality in any "high ground" they think that reasoning resembles.
As they stand now, it's a pitiful arrogance to claim "Sanders isn't a Democrat", because it doesn't really excuse them anyway.
Article summaries what's been happening
After I vote in 4 weeks for Bernie (Closed Primary) I'm leaving the democratic party. I'm done.
Don't believe everything you think.
I'm writing in Bernie
for the General. I've got some Republican friends who don't want to vote for any of the Republican candidates this year, so I'm encourage them to write in Bernie too.
Beat Trump with Bernie!
I'd say it would be better to
I'd say it would be better to try to make the Green Party viable which is totally possible in this social media age.
Beware the bullshit factories.
This issue goes beyond partisan politics.
This is the system, the "Deep State," trying to entrench the nascent oligarchy. The partisan politics thing is a distraction, as people like Chris Hedges has pointed out many times.
www.RayPensador.com
When you boil it all down, the number one step you can take to get out from under the fascist boot of the oligarchy is to stop subjecting yourself to the the U.S. corporate news media. It is a powerful psyops weapon.
Bill Hicks nailed it.
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geebeebee, that was brillaint! n/t
www.RayPensador.com
When you boil it all down, the number one step you can take to get out from under the fascist boot of the oligarchy is to stop subjecting yourself to the the U.S. corporate news media. It is a powerful psyops weapon.
I agree, Ray
For all intent and purposes, those of us who have migrated here seem have become " the independent party of America " without a name.
Great to see your work again.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Money quote
Here's the gist of the article:
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
This is why so many people hate Democrats.
Whatever little bit of belonging to the Democratic Party that remained for me, this election destroyed. #BernieOrBust
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
same here
I am done with the corrupt Democratic party. #BernieOrBust
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
#BernieOrBust all the way! I'm with you gulfgal98
www.RayPensador.com
When you boil it all down, the number one step you can take to get out from under the fascist boot of the oligarchy is to stop subjecting yourself to the the U.S. corporate news media. It is a powerful psyops weapon.
End Justifies The Means
These people have no shame. They are in it to win, and will do virtually anything -- legal or illegal, moral or immoral -- to ensure victory. If Clinton ultimately does win the nomination (which unfortunately I still consider the most likely outcome), these sleazy tactics will in their minds have been vindicated. And as far as I'm concerned, those Sanders supporters who decide to hold their noses and vote for the supposed lesser evil will be tacitly condoning them, and helping ensure their continued use in future elections.
I think the HCNC has all but anointed Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, and is looking forward to an easy path to victory in November. Personally, though, I think HC and her minions may be in for a rude surprise. There's a good chance Trump will fall short of the 1237 delegates needed for a first ballot nomination, in which case I foresee a Paul Ryan / Nikki Haley ticket as a very distinct possibility. Given Clinton's glaring weaknesses and vulnerabilities as a candidate, Ryan could easily wind up as the next President.
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Don't underestimate Trump
Donald Trump is already running to the LEFT of Hillary on a number of important issues that voters care about. For example, the influence of money in politics, so-called "free trade" deals like the TPP, national defense policy, and preserving Social Security and Medicare against the catfooders.
Hillary hopes to run on a "lesser evil" platform and identity politics. But it's an anti-establishment election year and she has already been tagged as the last remaining establishment candidate (I forgot Kasich, but he's still in third place in the Tea-GOP with no way to pull ahead). Trump likes to dominate the news cycle, and there is no shortage of Clinton scandals that Trump could bring up if Hillary is the nominee.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
Yes
You are correct about her baggage. And Trump or Ryan will smash her with it.
Don't forget Trump will then be the only outsider in the race and not taking money from billionaires. And while I don't think Trump is a real billionaire, he has enough money to fund his own campaign, even though the Corporate MSM seem to be funding it for him.
Every day it seems, Trump moves to the left of Clinton.
I called the GE at GOS March 14 for Trump, and exited.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
primary process
The party controls the primary process. They set the rules and the state party infrastructure tows the line.
Dictators know how to control the system.
"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I would modify that a bit...
The Establishment controls the primary process. I have found it interesting that in regard to the Arizona primary, people keep saying that the person in charge of the voting is a Republican. There is nothing in the world that says a Republican cannot fix things so a particular Democrat will win in their primary.
There is a book Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell that I read about 30 or more years ago that pretty much convinced me how politics are run, not just in the US but around the world. It is fiction, but like 1984 and Brave New World pretty much spot on.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Jared Kushner publisher of Observer
Suggest reading while chewing several barrels of salt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner
Trump's son-on-law