• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I repeat, he did lose by over 3 Million Votes. Supposed, uncoroborated, sandbagging aside, Hillary was the more popular candidate.

    You’re not pushing the party left by telling everyone they’re an unviable bunch of corporate shills, you’re just convincing people not to vote for them and letting Republicans win.

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        20 hours ago

        Okay so you’re saying the reason Hillary won 16 Million to 13 Million is because a couple of people behind closed doors said something kind of mean about him once? And how exactly did the millions of DNC voters hear about this and coordinate their votes accordingly, all secretively?

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          19 hours ago

          No, that’s not at all what I’m saying.

          I’m saying the DNC is supposed to be a neutral facilitator of primary elections, but were going out of their way to undermine the Sanders campaign by coordinating with donors and feeding stories and unflattering details of his campaign to reporters.

          Could the impact of that interference be measured by some quantity of votes? Decidedly not. But did it have some impact? Almost certainly.

          At the very least, the Sanders campaign was having to fight against the committee and put out fires they were starting, while they were supposed to be facilitating a ‘fair’ primary election. Even giving preferential treatment to one candidate over another calls into question the legitimacy of that primary.

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            19 hours ago

            The DNC is not a government entity, it is a private institution, it does not need to be impartial, but it’s election was an honest one which did not manipulate votes or prevent Bernie Sanders from running.