- “I really don’t get the motivation for the resolution at all,” he said. “You know, Bernie Sanders got 13 million votes in 2016. Thousands, if not millions, of those votes were young people and independents he brought into the Democratic Party. And I’m just stunned that the Democratic Party’s rules committee would want to try to make the Democratic Party an exclusive club, for which we want to exclude voters and large segments of the American electorate.”
I found myself squarely on the side of the DNC during the campaign last year, because the argument that you should be a democrat if you want the democratic party to support you sort of made sense to me. It's a private organization, so they can make whatever rule they want. I would argue, and did, that the GOP has the same prerogative, and that they could have used that to keep the country safe from Trump. I'm not so sure anymore. It seems more realistic that there aren't any realistic possibilities of someone becoming the president (and really very little chance of even becoming a legislator) if you don't run as a democrat or republican. In that sense they aren't really private. They're de facto government. So I've somewhat come around on this. In any case, no matter what you think of Clinton or Sanders, I'm not sure now is the time for the democrats to piss a lot of their potential voters off. I can and will spend significant personal funds this year to try to get democrats elected. I've hated the GOP for a long time, but I've never donated cash before. I'm not donating to the DNC, but to individual candidates. However, if the DNC fucks up this opportunity this will be the first and last time I spend hard earned cash on their bullshit machinery.
I probably gave $100 dollars I couldn't really afford to Bernie. This seems like a minor technical change that won't change anything in the end. Russian trolls used anger at the DNC to get Trump elected so I don't know that I'm going to wash my hands of the whole party because they saw Hilary as more electable or whatever bullshit they might pull in the future. Republicans on a good day are arguably evil and we're living through the worst of what that party can do. It's not pretty
Thanks. May do so after the primary. A friend of mine (Haley Stevens) is running in Michigan's 11th, and she has by far the best odds to win the primary, but I told her I'm done until the general. Democratic infighting just ain't my cup of tea. Happy to try to beat up on GOP nihilists when the primary dust settles, however.