DNC Completely Loses Public Trust In Its Primary Process On Very First Day
After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of anointed establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, the
2020 Democratic presidential primary elections officially began with a massive scandal working against Bernie Sanders to
the advantage of an establishment favorite.
The 2020 Iowa caucuses turned out to have been designed to depend on the use of a new, untested app with extensive ties to establishment insiders and to the Pete Buttigeig campaign , and because of problems using this app as of this writing we are still waiting on the full results of the election.
The Iowa Democratic Party has bizarrely released a partial result with 62 percent of 99 counties reporting, which just so happens to have favored the campaign of a Mr Peter Buttigeig, who in the sample came out on top in
delegates despite coming in second in votes.
According to an Iowa precinct chair, the problems using the app (developed by the aptly named Shadow, Inc) included
literally switching the numbers entered into it on the final step of reporting results.
"A precinct chair in Iowa said the app got stuck on the last step when reporting results," CNN reports. "It was uploading a picture of the precinct’s results. The chair said they were finally able to upload, so they took a
screenshot. The app then showed different numbers than what they had submitted as captured in their screenshot."
#IowaCaucusDisaster Update: @leefang reports Acronym—the main investor in #IowaCaucus app developer "Shadow"— had senior leadership that "regularly expressed hostility to @BernieSanders supporters."
CEO of Acronym also married @PeteButtigieg staffer https://t.co/HP6QVx61BX
— Jordan (@JordanChariton) February 4, 2020
It doesn't actually matter anymore who really won Iowa at this point; the damage is already done. Iowa is a sparsely
populated state with an insignificant number of delegates; nobody campaigns there for the delegates, they campaign to
make headlines and generate excitement and favorable press for themselves in the first electoral contest of the
presidential primary race. This has already happened, and with Buttigeig first declaring victory before any results were in, followed by his delegate count lead announced hours later, the favorable press has
predominantly gone his way.
Even if Sanders turns out to have won the delegate count as well, this will already have happened. He will have already
lost the opportunity to start off the primary contest with a win and a rousing victory speech. In every way that
matters, he has already been robbed, by extremely shady establishment dealings, in the very first electoral contest of
the race.
The very first. Berners are already as outraged as they were at the height of the 2016 DNC scandal, which was still
months out from this point in the race. They're already getting screwed over, and it's just getting started.
This is all extremely blatant, and the feelings it brings up in people are completely legitimate. Yet narrative managers like Neera Tanden and Shannon Watts are telling everyone they're just like Trump if they suspect the Democratic establishment is again doing the thing it
did just four years ago.
Folks who are claiming anything may be rigged sound like Trump. Exactly like him. It’s pathetic.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) February 4, 2020
If you’re implying there’s a conspiracy against your candidate due to #IowaCaucuses delay, you’re no better than this guy https://t.co/1lfky5th0G
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 4, 2020
If such extremely shady shenanigans had occurred in Russia or Venezuela, within minutes Mike Pompeo would have been
holding a press conference demanding a new election under UN supervision and an international coalition of sanctions.
It's hilarious how America is constantly staging coups, implementing sanctions and arming violent militias on the basis
that their government has an illegitimate democratic process, yet its own most important electoral proceedings would
make any third world tin pot dictator blush.
And don't give me that crap about how Democratic Party primaries are separate from the US electoral system and therefore
don't undermine American democracy; of course they do. If your country has a rigidly enforced two-party system and one of those parties has bogus internal elections, then you do not have any degree of democracy in your country.
Saying "Well if you don't like our rigged primary process you can vote for the other corrupt warmongering
pro-establishment party" is not democracy.
The difference between a true totalitarian dictatorship and America is that the totalitarian dictatorship enforces one
political belief system which supports the status quo, whereas in America you get the freedom of choice between two
political belief systems which support the status quo. The entire system is stacked to ensure the continued rule of the
oligarchs, spooks and warmongers who really run things behind the two-handed sock puppet show of the official elected government. The US doesn't attack and undermine nations when they lack "freedom" or
"democracy", they attack and undermine them when they refuse to bow to the demands of the power establishment which
controls the US government and its allies.
The sooner people wake up to this, the better. In Iowa, things couldn't have gone worse for those responsible for
keeping people asleep.
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