Politics Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris listening to billionaires over working class

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So it sounds like the Republican primaries could be considered more democratic than the Democrat primaries.

 

In the primaries, sure. They had to or they would have never beaten any of the Dem candidates.

 

The evidence is that it wasn't displayed that way any longer after 2016 when Bernie made the DNC change it before agreeing to support Hillary.

I honestly don't think the media knew any better. The DNC sets up the process, creates the score cards, and the media just reports those things.

If you expect them to be accountable for the information the DNC wants the voters to have I wouldn't be opposed. But I don't know how they're supposed to know the ins and outs of the DNC primaries better than the DNC.

The DNC is supposed to be impartial though. And they very clearly have not been.

 

I think Biden got a lot of help from the DNC and the establishment in 2020 as well, but it wasn't nearly as crooked as 2016. And I've never claimed that Bernie got more votes than Hillary. That's never been in question.

I don't necessarily care if my preferred candidate wins as long as they do the job well on behalf of the American people.

I wasn't happy that the Blazers hired Terry Stotts, but I really appreciated him as a coach more than I thought I would. I'm probably one of his biggest supporters now.

I just want an improved system that leads to better, more logical policy.

 

I don't know. Superseding the people's will and getting everyone to drop out to support the Dementia-adled Biden is pretty bad too.

 

I was talking about 2020. Bernie was 48 hours away from locking the nomination until Obama got everyone to drop out to back Biden who was in 7th place or so.

That happened.

 

Good point. I forgot about those details. It was pretty bad...

*Edit* That's right, Kamala and Pete dropped out, but Warren stayed in to be the spoiler after Obama spoke with them and a bunch of new money started spreading around. Obama spoke with the SC Reverend who had been withholding his support from Biden, who then flip-flopped and publicly supported Biden right before the primary.

HUGE Dem push to maintain the status quo, even though Sanders was leading and had raised more money than anybody else.

Horrible. You just knew that was going to lead to dark days... And here we are...

 

Did I say it was nefarious? No. I said it protected the status quo. Which gave us lesser candidates and removed superior candidates.

I think they all knew they weren't going to beat Bernie. They probably weren't going to beat Biden. And the DNC, with Obama's help, offered them the guarantee of money and power the likes of which Sanders didn't have the power to offer yet.

The same way Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, or Facebook buys up the competition to protect themselves.

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's not nefarious. But it definitely hurts innovation as well as the consumer.

The same way the DNC (establishment Democrats) has been hurting progress and the voter.

 

Biden’s virtually uncontested nomination was pretty much the exact process as Reagan had for his second term. That netted us another dementia ridden geezer president. It’s almost as if that’s a bad plan.

 

I already answered that in the post you're responding to. But let's try it this way...

Do you like the way things have turned out? I don't. That's why I'm complaining about the DNC and corporate Dems.

I want positive changes. Republicans aren't going to change anything (certainly not for the better). Dems want things to go back to how they were. How they were is why we have Trump as president now.

 

That's the problem. The DNC (corporate Dems) were in Bernie's way.

The RNC wasn't in Trump's way. They had changed the rules to get out of the way.

I'm advocating for the DNC to get the hell out of the way (to be "impartial" and "evenhanded", as their charter says) and for the people to hold their feet to the fire if they don't.