Hills "accepts responsibility" for loss

[Belsnickel]

(05-04-2017, 03:49 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: We must have a completely different idea of the underlying function which the DNC serves.  What is the point of a primary in the first place if the DNC is going to "throw their weight behind" (synonymous for 'rig' imo) the candidate which 'they' prefer?  The DNC should not be pushing one candidate over another.  They should be facilitating the will of the people.  

I also dont understand why you would want to defend these practices.  They don't serve your best interests.  The only way to fix the failed system to to attack it for what it is.  The DNC failed us all miserably.  Regardless if you believe HRC would have won were it a fair playing field, we need to ensure this shit doesn't happen again.

What you want is not what we have as far as political parties are concerned. Party membership is limited to the people that work for the party and those elected officials under their banner. The political insiders. The people aren't members of the party. The party isn't there to serve the people and it isn't there to push policy. Political parties in this country are set up to fundraise and win elections. Candidates don't have to hold to the party platform, the hierarchical structure within the party itself doesn't mean shit to the elected officials.

The DNC and the RNC are both private organizations that don't owe shit to the people. I don't like this fact, many people don't like this fact (and many don't realize it), but that is the fact. They could, in all seriousness, change their rules to make it where the committee itself selects their candidate and there isn't boo anyone could say about it.