Thanks! TC, managed to stay awake in order to read the entire piece. I’m shocked to find the DNC is so similar to the RNC in the tactics used.(s) Seriously doubt the RNC would be any different...especially after the Mississippi wool was lifted from AMERICA’s eyes. The parties are corrupted, the media is corrupted, the politicians are corrupted. Mr. Lasser, thank you for your insights. Now, we will be fair and ask that a TRUMP delegate to Cleveland come forth to give their’s so we might compare.
The Hillary people taking the walking cane from a blind man about summed it up. They wanted the Bernie people to leave and the MSM covered up as best they could the walkout.
Agree. The Mississippi election where the RNC paid Democrats street money to go vote for the RINO illustrated the Uniparty is not about to give up control.
Our only hope is WikiLeaks. I don’t see us winning unless the corruption of Hillary is exposed in October and is so bad even the MSM can’t hide it. Watergate tape level information or worse is required.
The only reason this didn’t happen at the RNC is because Trump’s support was so large and vocal. Had it been any closer,the party would have skewed the convention in the same manner. Most regular RNC delegates, with the exception of Dr. Paul’s supporters, are very much conformists. They would have gone along with whatever came down off the mountain from committee.
The Trump delegation, despite being infiltrated with party hacks at every turn, was a completely different animal. The groundswell of popular support for Trump (or at least his outsider status) is unprecedented since Reagan at least. There was no way to control the narrative and the party insiders lost.
Preibus understood this before the others. I still don’t trust him, but his own self-interest and hope to save the party motivated him to switch sides. Those who remain never-trumpers are selfish cowards who fear the constituents for good reason.
I believe the Democrats were seriously unprepared for the success of an openly socialist/communist candidate. Bernie was supposed to play Dr. Paul— the kindly crazy uncle whose “extremism” channels dissent and ensures no mainstream support. I think the Democrats underestimated the success of their educational efforts—we now have 45% of a Democrat generation that sees no problem openly supporting communism, and I think that number is a gross underestimate.
While that remains a smaller segment of the population as a whole, that number translates very close to 20% of the politically active—around the same number who supported a radical named Washington.