> For what it's worth, I strongly subscribe to the maxim of not ascribing to malicious intent that which can be better explained by incompetence. Me too, but i

> For what it's worth, I strongly subscribe to the maxim of not ascribing to malicious intent that which can be better explained by incompetence. Me too, but it's really difficult to not suspect at least some malicious intent in this case. It's not just Buttigieg's links to Shadow, on top of the ex-Clintonites. It's also things like: - cancelling the Des Moines Register poll (afaik first time this happened) - 'mistakes' in the poll results that somehow benefit Buttigieg at the expense of Bernie (others too, but Bernie moreso) - spending a ridiculous amount of time on reporting the Bernie-favoring results, which basically robs Bernie from declaring victory, and which arguably is the main importance of the whole thing (and iirc this has a big effect on how the rest of the elections go, because Iowa is the first). - MSM focusing on state delegates when the popular vote clearly favors Bernie, and IMO should be the most important statistic. There's a bunch more, but even just the above makes it difficult for me to assume that there isn't at least some malice towards a candidate who is generally not favored by the DNC and the DNC-aligned MSM (and corporate interests). EDIT: I'll add that I'm very open to being wrong. I want to be wrong about all this, and as a non-American I have relatively little actual skin in the game.