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what "massive corruption" are you referring to?
by kmlx 8y ago
what "massive corruption" are you referring to?
- Synaesthesia 8y agoThe DNC clearly favoring Clinton in an undemocratic fashion, as shown by the emails involving Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- zzzeek 8y ago"massive corruption" would be things like sharing campaign data with Russian agents and promising them access to the President. Some grumbly emails that they didn't like Bernie, who is not even a Democrat, is strictly embarrassing and incompetent, and nothing more.
- Synaesthesia 8y agoI think undermining the most popular candidate for Hillary is quite corrupt and important, it’s got a bearing on who will be president!
- fwip 8y agoI don't like Hillary, but surely it's within the rights of a political party to select candidates however they please?
- dijit 8y agoIsn't it a _bit_ disingenuous to call yourself a "democratic" party and then attempt to subvert (and eventually throw out) your democratic process for selecting a candidate? Also I found it quite funny how the emails clearly show that Clinton ordered the media to focus on certain people from the Republican side as "credible" leaders and they included (but were not limited to): Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
- komali2 8y agoI don't understand what the name of the Democrat political party has to do with their process for selecting a candidate. If the Republican party has the word Republic in it, why don't they use representative electors? See, doesn't really make sense.
- dijit 8y agoOk, then don't make the pretence of democracy then? Just select your candidate if that's what you're going to do anyway.
- komali2 8y agoWhen did the Democrat party make "a pretense of democracy?"
- gspetr 8y agoThen what exactly was the superdelegate system?
- komali2 8y agoExactly as you have described by naming it - a superdelegate system.
- gspetr 8y agoDo you believe that the unelected bureaucrats, not accountable to voters, holding 15% of the voting power is just something that is in line with the way one would imagine an ideal democracy in a primary?
- komali2 8y agoCertainly not a perfect one, no, but that is exactly how the process works, so I don't see any pretense. I voted for Bernie Sanders but pop over to the Wikipedia page and you'll see that he lost the popular vote by 3 million and change in an election 30 million people participated in. Not the narrowest of margins. In a perfect democracy, he'd have also lost. The superdelegate system was irrelevant in this case.
- komali2 8y agoOk, but this doesn't fit within my definition of corruption because the DNC is a political party, not the government. Do you have an argument as to why this should fit within my definition of corruption?