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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]Ford_Prefect
(7,891 posts)due to their registrations being dumped by GOP agents had no effect on the outcome at all? You're saying that 600,000+ citizens and Democrats who were never allowed to vote or who had their ballots dumped (Detroit) meant nothing to you.
I find your math suspect and your reading of the Constitution exceptionally selective. You would never have passed civics or algebra in my home town.
You attempt to blame Senator Sanders for the failings of the party as a whole. An organizational weakness they appear to have recently compounded. I first voted as a Democrat when no one would by a used car from Nixon. I have seen the party regulars repeatedly blame the left side of the party just as you do now in nearly every election since. The simple truth is that the party hierarchy doesn't like being questioned about its version of status quo. It was that way for decades when Civil Rights leaders again and again, and again, tried to attend the convention and get heard and have their issues recognized, discussed, and added to the platform. It was the same when the Peace movement, Disabled people, Environmentalists and LGBT Democrats attempted to be heard by the party leadership. Their causes and issues were said to be too much of the fringe to be worthy of Democrats risking votes by acknowledging them: over and over again that was the excuse.
You make the same sad argument today. Shame on you to repeat the legacy of Party Loyalty excuses for inaction, incompetence, corruption and cowardice by the central committee. If we do not all go forward together then we will go nowhere.