the voting tallies were not what was rigged. what was rigged was the Bias of the DNC and its support for one candidate over another. Let me be clear, i'm not talking about the democratic party, i'm talking about the stooges who run the DNC. Would you call it a fair election if the federal government supported one candidate financially over another? The result may have been quite a bit different if both candidates had run on equal footing with equal funding (which, in my opinion, is how all elections should be run, rather than allowing corporate interests and partisan favortism to control the outcome.)
Edit: i also want to be clear about another thing, as I get where you're going with this: I don't support Bernie Sanders, and never have. I think a lot of his policies were impossible to implement and would have been a complete waste of time. I'm not saying this out of support for a losing candidate, i'm pointing out what i believe to be blatant favortism by the DNC, in order to illustrate that we cannot rely on primaries to give us candidates that represent the true and honest will of the people. we can only count on primaries to give us candidates that represent the will of the party and those are two very different things.
Nothing the DNC did had any any effect on the outcome of the primary. Nobody even cared about the DNC until conspiracy theorists turned them into a boogeyman last year. The DNC is irrelevant.
i'm hearing a lot of platitudes and denial here, so I stand by what I've said. I'll add, though, that I don't think the RNC is any better. They'll support whatever horseshit asshole they think will tow the party line the hardest, and pay only lipservice to those candidates that talk about bipartisanship and compromise. it's the same on both sides really. The point wasn't to demonize a particular party, but to explain that they can't be trusted to hold fair and balanced primaries on their own. And, quite frankly, we don't have to trust them to hold fair and balanced primaries. they're private organizations. they can do whatever dirty shit they want in their own halls. it's just all the more reason why we can't rely on them as a society to produce candidates that represent our best interests. the only chance our society has to select a candidate that best represents us is in the general election itself. before that, the people don't have a true and honest voice. come to terms with that and you'll come away with a clearer view of what needs to be done to fix the situation we're in. continuing to pretend that the party commissions will look out for the people is like letting Roy Moore drive your daughter to school every day.
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u/Lancemate_Memory Dec 13 '17 edited Dec 13 '17
the voting tallies were not what was rigged. what was rigged was the Bias of the DNC and its support for one candidate over another. Let me be clear, i'm not talking about the democratic party, i'm talking about the stooges who run the DNC. Would you call it a fair election if the federal government supported one candidate financially over another? The result may have been quite a bit different if both candidates had run on equal footing with equal funding (which, in my opinion, is how all elections should be run, rather than allowing corporate interests and partisan favortism to control the outcome.)
Edit: i also want to be clear about another thing, as I get where you're going with this: I don't support Bernie Sanders, and never have. I think a lot of his policies were impossible to implement and would have been a complete waste of time. I'm not saying this out of support for a losing candidate, i'm pointing out what i believe to be blatant favortism by the DNC, in order to illustrate that we cannot rely on primaries to give us candidates that represent the true and honest will of the people. we can only count on primaries to give us candidates that represent the will of the party and those are two very different things.