Skip to comments.Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Revealing Our Elections are Rigged: The Illusions of Choice
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 4-17-2016 | sundance
Posted on 04/17/2016 3:05:41 PM PDT by smoothsailing
(Nick Bernabe via ANTIMEDIA) Denver, CO The 2016 election has been a wild ride, with two insurgent grassroots campaigns literally giving the political establishment a run for its money. But as the events of this presidential primary season play out, its becoming clear the U.S. election and even more so, the presidential race is a big scam being perpetrated on the American people.
Events from the last week have exposed the system as an illusion of choice and a farce. They have reinforced at least one study showing the U.S. is an oligarchy rather than a democratic republic.
The Wyoming democratic caucus took place on Saturday, purportedly to allow voters to have their voices heard in the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Sanders lost the Wyoming caucus by winning it with a 12 percent margin.
Wait, what?
How does one lose by winning 56 percent of the votes? This happens when the political process is, according to the New York Post, rigged by superdelegates. The Post summed up this strange phenomenon:
[U]nder the Democratic Partys oddball delegate system, Sanders winning streak he has won seven out of the past eight contests counts for little.
In fact, despite his win, he splits Wyomings 14 pledged delegates 7 to 7 under the caucus calculus.
Clinton, meanwhile, also gets the states four superdelegates who had already pledged their allegiance to her in January. So despite losing, she triumphs 11-7 in the delegate tally”. (link)
Even media pundits on MSNBC openly called the process rigged:...
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Political party elections are not the same as an election to a government office. It’s a semi-private organization that doesn’t necessarily have to accept anyone who wants to join as its members. There should be mechanisms in place to prevent enemies of the party from crossing over and installing the candidates they want. I would limit primary voters to people who actually donated to the party, as a loyalty test. Any American is free to run for office as an independent or to form their own party.