2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "...If this were any other country, we’d be quick to call this a CORRUPT ELECTION." [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)the citizens of America have dared to vote as THEY see fit rather than voting as you and your fellow Sanders supporters tell them they should. The primary results are not rigged in terms of money. Sanders has been outspending Clinton by wide margins. He's also benefited from more Super Pac spending on his behalf and directed against Clinton. Yet money isn't enough to deliver him the nomination.
The Superdelegates have been in place since 1968. They got a lot of publicity in 2008, which means all of you knew about them. People could have gotten involved in the party during the past 8 years or the previous decades to change the way Democratic primary delegates are allocated, but that didn't happen. People have had 52 years to change the system but only raise it now because Bernie is behind. Well now he isn't just behind in Superdelegates but earned delegates as well.
Clinton won an overwhelming victory in S Carolina. It was a blow out. That those voters didn't vote as wanted doesn't mean the results are rigged. It means your vote is no more important than mine or anyone else's: One person, one vote. That basic concept is something too many refuse to accept. Declaring invalid the votes and voices of great swaths of the American public reveals a contempt for basic principles of equality. That attitude has been far too common throughout this campaign, and I would submit is part of the reason Sanders has not been able to broaden his support base.