(July 25, 2016 at 7:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Why? What is "disgraceful" about the DNC trying to elect a democrat instead of a lifelong independent who decided to make a run in the only possible place which would tolerate him?
What's disgraceful is the fact that the DNC have a rule which states that DNC officers have to be impartial throughout the nomination process. They weren't impartial at all. This was suspected all along, but the lengths that they went to to undermine the Sanders campaign is now clear from the leaked emails. Only a fool would say that is not disgraceful.
(July 25, 2016 at 7:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Did the RNC unite to assist Drumpf? I think not.
That's not the issue here and you know it. Did any RNC officials actively try and prevent Trump from winning? Perhaps, but we don't have the emails to prove it, and if we did, it would be just as bad as what the DNC did to Sanders.
(July 25, 2016 at 7:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It really is time to learn what a political "party" is and what it is not.
Maybe it's time for you to learn about the nomination process of your own party, because guess what, as long as you are a member of the Democratic Party you can run for the nomination. Doesn't matter if you are a long time member or (in this case) an independent who caucused with the Democrats for decades (not that that matters to you apparently). The voters ultimately get to decide who the nominees are, not the party establishment itself (although the superdelegates can certainly thwart democracy if they ever wanted / needed to). 43.1% of voters wanted Sanders, despite the fact that he was an independent previously. Maybe they saw in him a vision of what they wanted the Democratic Party to look like. Maybe they just didn't care that he was an Independent before (just as the Republican voters didn't seem to care that Trump used to be a Democrat). For whatever reason, he had overwhelming support, and the DNC decided to go against their very name, and thwart the democracy of their own nomination process by actively trying to undermine his campaign using a number of dirty tricks.
If that isn't disgraceful to you, you don't even know the meaning of the word, and you're too blinded by your love of Clinton to see anything else. Had the same thing happened to Clinton, I bet you'd be in my shoes right now, blasting the DNC for their behavior.
