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In reply to the discussion: The Things Wrong With Dems [View all]Gothmog
(145,126 posts)Texas used to have the Texas Two Step where two-thirds of the delegates were awarded due to primary and one-third due caucuses. I was on the Obama voter protection team and I attend the training as to how to game the system. Clinton won the primary (2/3rds of the delegates) but lost the caucus phase and lost the state. Caucuses kept sanders in the contest because caucuses are not democratic and can be gamed. Texas abolished the Texas two step for 2016. The same math that works in the shareholder control contests works in caucuses which are easy to game.
Sanders was rejected by many mainstream or real democrats because they did not believe in magic. After New York, sanders was so far behind in pledged delegates that he would have to win over 65% of the vote in California to be competitive with respect to pledged delegates. Are you upset because no one in the real world believed that sanders could get over 65% of the vote in California? Sanders was so far behind in pledged delegates after Super Tuesday (yeah Texas) that he never had a chance to catch up in pledged delegates.
The system was not rigged unless you mean that the fact that most mainstream democrats do believe in magical voter revolutions where millions or billions or trillions of new voters would rise up to make the GOP reasonable. If sanders had actually achieved any major legislative victories, then maybe more mainstream democrats could have supported him.
sanders controls Vermont. If single payer is really so viable, then why has Vermont not adopted single payer?? Did sanders not try in his home state? Sanders has no major legislative accomplishments in the real world because magic does not work in the real world. If sanders is so right on single payer, then sanders needs to prove this to the rest of the US by getting single payer adopted in Vermont