Democratic Party Convention General Thread

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Cider said:
I love these interviews with protesters. They are pissed off, as I am at what these emails showed. I saw a self professed life long Dem state that she won’t vote Hillary and she’s still deciding the best way to hurt her chances of winning, including possibly voting for Trump.
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Sounds like maybe those protesters might not be followers of Bernie Sanders afterall since they aren’t following him. I’ve heard Bernie has asked them to show him some respect.
 
Darryl1958 said:
The big difference is that the outsider won the GOP nomination, in spite of the movers and shakers of the GOP vociferously objecting at every point. Many prominent Republicans even left the party over this, and the runner-up Cruz, refused to kow-tow to the bitter end. The process was overt, embarrassingly and bitterly so.

The DNC covertly plotted sabotage against their outsider, and prevailed.
And the fact that Bernie chooses Hillary over his supporters who remained loyal to him leaves those supporters high and dry on all counts.

So it is not exactly the same thing.

Big, big differences exist between the way things went down in the GOP compared to what wikileaks reveals about the DNC and ends up with Sanders kow-towing to his Queen.
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I completely agree, Darryl.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Sounds like maybe those protesters might not be followers of Bernie Sanders afterall since they aren’t following him. I’ve heard Bernie has asked them to show him some respect.
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Just because you support a candidate doesn’t mean you’re their slave. I don’t even understand why people think they would.
 
Darryl1958 said:
The big difference is that the outsider won the GOP nomination, in spite of the movers and shakers of the GOP vociferously objecting at every point. Many prominent Republicans even left the party over this, and the runner-up Cruz, refused to kow-tow to the bitter end. The process was overt, embarrassingly and bitterly so.

The DNC covertly plotted sabotage against their outsider, and prevailed.
And the fact that Bernie chooses Hillary over his supporters who remained loyal to him leaves those supporters high and dry on all counts.

So it is not exactly the same thing.

Big, big differences exist between the way things went down in the GOP compared to what wikileaks reveals about the DNC and ends up with Sanders kow-towing to his Queen.
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Yeah if anything the leaks do reveal that the DNC is much better at taking care of business than the RNC. That said they’re still not too good at keeping their business under wraps in the end.
 
Jeanne_S said:
Schadenfreude…😉
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I sat through all of the GOP convention, painful as it was, and I never had this reaction. It isn’t a football game and no one’s team is winning or losing. Instead, it’s likely everyone will lose.
 
gracepoole said:
I sat through all of the GOP convention, painful as it was, and I never had this reaction. It isn’t a football game and no one’s team is winning or losing. Instead, it’s likely everyone will lose.
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Everyone will certainly lose if HC ends up in theWH
 
Darryl1958 said:
The big difference is that the outsider won the GOP nomination, in spite of the movers and shakers of the GOP vociferously objecting at every point.
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The old “Trump is an outsider” mantra is pretty laughable. No one stands for the status quo of benefiting big businesses quite like him.
 
And today it’s the Democratic Party that’s looking like a house divided 😃
 
Seamus_L said:
And today it’s the Democratic Party that’s looking like a house divided 😃
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Yep. Both parties are in disarray. For different reasons, and their candidate ends up being the person from the opposite side of the insider/outsider divide. But the end result is that neither party has a particularly electable candidate, and both parties have large segments of voters who are completely disillusioned with their own party.
 
Padres1969 said:
Despite Wikileaks claims to the contrary, it looks like not only is Russia behind the DNC leaks, it looks like some of the material contained there in might not even be real, but rather Russian planted material. It’s a dangerous and potentially explosive action for their authoritarian regime to make trying to manipulate the US election.

foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-dnc-hack-could-be-misinformation-from-russian-spies-1784252633
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That is a blog engaging in speculation about what another blog said. I think if the DNC wanted to deny any of the emails are real they very well could; and will.
 
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