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Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.
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Clinton received the majority of votes in the primary. How did they "circumvent voters' choice"?
Superdelegates. They are supposed to make their votes when things are nearly settled. As a collective, they voted for Hillary before the contest even started, which gave people the impression that Hillary was winning.
This is like a judge giving their opinion, before letting jurors discuss their decision.
Superdelegates don't vote until the convention, potentially they could have still nominated Clinton if Sanders won the pledged delegates, but it never came up, since he didn't. Like I'm not contesting that the party establishment favored Clinton, but you can't say they circumvented the will of the voters when the nominee was the person who won the popular vote.
Throughout the primary, the media counted all the superdelegates as Clinton votes, regardless of their theoretical obligation to vote for whomever won their state's primary. Voters were relentlessly bombarded with the notion that it was impossible for Sanders to obtain the nomination. Yeah, she got more votes, but like, shit wasn't fair, man.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-conventions/democratic-national-committee-chief-stepping-aside-after-convention-n615826
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/wasserman-schultz-wont-preside-over-dnc-convention-226088
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487242426/bernie-sanders-dnc-emails-outrageous-but-not-a-shock
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debbie-wasserman-schultz-resigns_n_5795044ae4b0d3568f8397f7
so tell me. why would Clinton have more votes? OH YEAH! because of the bias that Wasserman forced upon the DNC!
I could go on and on with reports just like this but I'm pretty sure my point has been made.
Clinton and Wasserman were working together to circumvent voters choice in order to ensure that Clinton was THE candidate. Unfortunately they gambled with our democracy and lost.
it's worse than whatever you're thinking too. the only reason why they were caught is because they were trying to cheat. wikileaks wouldn't have had anything to leak had they not try to fuck over Bernie.