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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Virginia Gov. McAuliffe Announces Major Restoration of Voting Rights to 206k Former Felons [View all]Bubzer
(4,211 posts)They were denied the choice... by virtue selectively choosing when to reinstate their right to vote.
I don't understand how any of you cannot see this. We're supposedly the party that DEMANDS the freedom that voting affords. Why, then, were they not made inclusive to the process if that ability was there? Why were they omitted from being able to participate in the primary? You guys think this is about Hillary versus Bernie, when it isn't. It's about choice.
That holds true with my own vote as well. If Hillary could win without all the manipulations that have occurred, then I'd go along with it... grudgingly, but I would... because it would have been the will of the people... rather than the manipulation of the vote.
However, when you look at the accumulation of details... the unlimited amount of money that is funneled to Hillary from corporations because of a DNC rule change mid-game, the enormous amount of voter suppression that has occurred across the country... and team-Clinton only being interested in doing something about it AFTER a primary has occurred. Add to that the obvious and blatant bias of the media, pushing Hillary to the forefront... up to and including threats of job losses if every single mention of Bernie isn't accompanied by a positive comment for Hillary.
I simply don't understand how anyone could look at all these and many more details and not see that this is absolutely a theft of the primary. How, exactly, am I as a Bernie Sanders supporter to even consider Hillary as anything more than a grand manipulator? And in that light, how can I possibly trust her to work for my interests or those of all the people I care about?
And if that wasn't enough, as if to add insult to injury, every time either myself, or any other Bernie supporter reaches out to try and understand, to get a Hillary supporter to maybe give us a way to get passed all the distrust, all that happens is we get shut down! We get insulted. We get told we're not real democrats... or whatever other insult that happens to be handy.
And then all these absurd comments fly around from Hillary supporters wondering why we don't understand... as if we're just supposed to miraculously GET something after all the slings and arrows. Occasionally, one of us will see the comments and again try to reach out... and then the cycle starts all over again.
So, with all that in mind, how exactly am I, or any other Bernie Supporter supposed to look at this as anything but yet another campaign trick to coerce the vote?