• @MotoAsh
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    21 year ago

    You can thank Republicans and lazy Democrats for failing to educate the young on the election process. The Dems actively fought against Bernie in the primary, too. There was no way they were going to tell young people to go upset their darling pick.

    • Hairyblue
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      11 year ago

      We voted. Democrats didn’t tell me not to vote for Bernie and even if they did, I would still vote for Bernie, and did.

      He didn’t get enough votes to win either primary. I voted for Bernie on both.

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        They didn’t fight Bernie by openly opposing him (at least outside of individuals). That’d be political suicide regardless of how people felt about Bernie.

        They snubbed him by royally screwing with the primary process. They pulled Republican-like tactics to keep people off the registry, misinformed, and with fewer places to vote. They purposefully planned few debates, and in bad time slots for viewership. Several news organizations were specifically working with Hillary to give her baby-brained questions and to ask Bernie rather rude ones. If you’re thinking, “what Republican tactics?”, then you’re demonstrating why they do it: It’s not obvious until after you follow the bread crumbs.

        Like a RICO case but less obvious than Trump’s, and how many people STILL deny Trump’s RICO?

        • Hairyblue
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          01 year ago

          The 2016 DNC primaries were not rigged. We all voted for who we wanted. I went out and voted for Bernie. The DNC did want Clinton to win the primaries and she had friends and plenty of money and backers to run. Bernie had money from people like me and me telling people why to vote for Bernie. Hillary was more famous and more of a front runner so she did get more attention. But Bernie had a great message and grassroots support. But all that comes down to votes. Bernie didn’t get enough to win the primaries.

          I don’t know what you mean by “keeping people off the registry”. Everyone who was legal to register could and could vote.

          Here is a Vox news article on it if you want to read more.

          Was the Democratic primary rigged?

          • @MotoAsh
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            11 year ago

            Like I said: Just because they weren’t doing things so blatantly illegal and obvious does not make everything that transpired acceptable. If you think the DNC didn’t work VERY hard to have their thumb on the scale for Hillary, then you simply did not pay enough attention.

            Like I said: If you ask, “what corruption?” THAT WAS THE ENTIRE POINT!! To fly under the radar. Remember, the news themselves wanted Hillary to win.

            • Hairyblue
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              01 year ago

              I said that Hillary had many people supporting her, she had lots of campaign money, the DNC wanted her to win, she had many famous friends that supported her, but that doesn’t mean the DNC primary was rigged. No votes were changed and people could vote for who they wanted.

              It like saying the election was rigged because my opponent was more popular and had more people vote for them.

              Hillary wasn’t my choice for the primaries, but I did vote for her in the election to try to save the supreme court from going right wing. And Hillary got more votes than Donald Trump (about 3 million more) and didn’t call the election rigged. Trump did even after he won.

              • @MotoAsh
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                11 year ago

                Like I said: You are buying the narrative. Just because no one went to jail for it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. If you had half a brain, you’d realize A LOT of that stuff straight up goes unpunished AND unreported. Again, the MSM wanted Hillary to win. They weren’t about to show you their scheming.

                • Hairyblue
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                  01 year ago

                  A media company endorsing a candidate is not illegal. It is done all the time. And Hillary had a lot of them wanting her to be president.

                  Bernie has some too, but not as many as Hillary.

                  Unless votes were changed or people were denied the right to vote the DNC primary wasn’t rigged.

                  Thinking there is a law for the private media companies that force them to be fair is not correct. And them favoring a candidate is not against the law.

                  • @MotoAsh
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                    11 year ago

                    “It’s not illegal”

                    See? You’re making excuses, again. Exactly like I said: They did it that way BECAUSE it’s not obvious and can be excused by those who don’t care if the reality of the situation is Bernie got screwed by an organized effort by those further to the right than him.