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Blackstar110 posted...

I'd like to hear a reasonable argument that the DNC was unbiased and fair to both candidates.

@Blackstar110 I don't disagree that DNC officials were biased against Sanders.

Clinton was a Democrat for decades, and Sanders was a Democrat for about five minutes. On some level, I can understand their frustration.

But that's still unacceptable coming from an organization that's supposed to be unbiased. In private correspondence, members of the DNC clearly expressed a preference for Clinton, and they treated Sanders with disdain. That's not acceptable, and I think Sanders and his supporters had every right to be upset about it.



The problem is when you make the jump from "the DNC didn't like Sanders" to "the DNC rigged the primary for Clinton." That didn't happen.

In a WikiLeaks trove of thousands upon thousands of emails, the *most* damaging allegation was that one DNC staffer floated the idea of making an issue of Sanders' atheism to discredit him. The idea was rightly shot down by Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, and it didn't go anywhere.

In another email, a staffer suggested "building a narrative against Sanders, that he never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess." Again, it was shot down by Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, and it didn't go anywhere.

On the balance it appears there was no conspiracy. A *few* stupid people talked about underhanded things, but the execution was not there. The apple was not as rotten to the core as people like to say it was.

If you feel I'm amiss, please point it out.

The emails create a vague sense of impropriety. But it's way more Veep than House of Cards.

My sense has always been, and continues to be, that Sanders supporters latched on to that vague sense of impropriety, and in their yearning for Sanders (and in their detest of Clinton), imagined that the game was rigged. When in fact, it wasn't.

Sanders lost by millions upon millions of votes. He lost because the majority of the people didn't vote for him. Not because the primary was rigged.