When you have the DNC just disregard a primary in 2024, admit bias against Sanders in 2016, deliberate defend Biden's poor mental health until they could disregard a primary. Why would Democrats careers be fine if we don't vote for them? Hillary Clinton is an example, you have party operatives that aren't elected officials that run day to day tasks. You have so many committies and chairs that you could fill that it really doesn't matter. You could become a think tank or operate for some agency. You could be hired by the private sector corporations to run things.
They don't care if they lose because they no longer have to take responsibility or more accurately criticism because they wouldn't be the power majority. They don't care if you fail to vote for them. They will blame the voters, but they don't care. Why should anyone vote for the same basic policies no matter who you vote for? Damn right our vote doesn't matter. You can vote third party for example Jill Stein, make their numbers grow to show dissent, but hell...We don't have fair elections here in the states. So if Greens or any third party gets on the radar, they'll manipulate things to stop it. They already had done so...
Agreed, I think Sanders wasn't what the Democrats were worried about. He had a lot of rhetoric from the past (FDR era) and "our revolution" might have radicalized enough youth to take up action...and certainly if he stepped out of line that he could have been replaced. There was a theory that at the 2016 DNC convention that he was 'roughed up' some claimed he had marks on his face and his demeanor was drastically altered that night. The DNC seemed to make a capitulation to Sanders supporters by replacing Schultz. I don't know, but there seems to have been something going on with him and the DNC that wasn't kosher.
When you have the DNC just disregard a primary in 2024, admit bias against Sanders in 2016, deliberate defend Biden's poor mental health until they could disregard a primary. Why would Democrats careers be fine if we don't vote for them? Hillary Clinton is an example, you have party operatives that aren't elected officials that run day to day tasks. You have so many committies and chairs that you could fill that it really doesn't matter. You could become a think tank or operate for some agency. You could be hired by the private sector corporations to run things.
They don't care if they lose because they no longer have to take responsibility or more accurately criticism because they wouldn't be the power majority. They don't care if you fail to vote for them. They will blame the voters, but they don't care. Why should anyone vote for the same basic policies no matter who you vote for? Damn right our vote doesn't matter. You can vote third party for example Jill Stein, make their numbers grow to show dissent, but hell...We don't have fair elections here in the states. So if Greens or any third party gets on the radar, they'll manipulate things to stop it. They already had done so...
To be fair, even if Sanders were elected president, he'd at best be Jimmy Carter 2.0.
They wouldn't have let him do much, and if he'd stepped out of line they could have replaced him by the plane crash or lone gun man trick.
Agreed, I think Sanders wasn't what the Democrats were worried about. He had a lot of rhetoric from the past (FDR era) and "our revolution" might have radicalized enough youth to take up action...and certainly if he stepped out of line that he could have been replaced. There was a theory that at the 2016 DNC convention that he was 'roughed up' some claimed he had marks on his face and his demeanor was drastically altered that night. The DNC seemed to make a capitulation to Sanders supporters by replacing Schultz. I don't know, but there seems to have been something going on with him and the DNC that wasn't kosher.
I vaguely remember that. I'd put nothing past these people. Perhaps they threatened his family too. Talk about old-school politics from the FDR era...