2016: The Year Americans
Found Out Their Elections Are Rigged, Submitted
by Tyler
Durden, 4/13/16. Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org,
“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the
essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And
the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.” – Former
President Jimmy Carter
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, it’s 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
super-delegates. The Post summed
up this “strange” phenomenon:
“Under
the Democratic Party’s 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 Wyoming’s 14 pledged delegates 7 to 7 under the
caucus calculus.
“Clinton,
meanwhile, also gets the state’s four super-delegates — who had already pledged
their allegiance to her in January. So despite ‘losing,’ she triumphs 11-7 in
the delegate tally.”
Even media pundits on MSNBC openly called the process
rigged: The super-delegate process is
complicated, as we’ve noted before, but
they have one essential function: to prevent candidates like Bernie Sanders
from winning the Democratic nomination. Don’t believe me? Here’s a video of
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz explaining
super-delegates:
Adding insult to injury, even when
Sanders does win
states (despite Hillary’s advantage in super-delegates), the media can be reliably counted on to discount Sanders’s
wins as nothing more than prolonging the electoral process, which will inevitably elect the presumptive nominee, Hillary
Clinton. This pervasive commentary
continues despite the fact Sanders only trails her by several hundred pledged
delegates.
Meanwhile, according to the same
media, the non-establishment Trump campaign
is threatened every time Ted Cruz beats him
— even though Trump leads by a larger percentage of pledged delegates than Clinton does.
When Clinton loses, it doesn’t matter because she already has the nomination
locked up. When Trump loses, his campaign is in big trouble. Starting to see
the problem with the media coverage?
When you examine these media
narratives, a troubling pattern emerges that goes beyond the political
establishment’s self-interest. You begin to see that American corporate media
also functions as an arm of the political machine, protecting establishment candidates while attacking — or
dismissing — candidates who seem non-establishment.
This brings us to the events that
transpired during the Republican nomination process in Colorado on Saturday.
The Republican Party of Colorado didn’t even bother letting people vote before
using arcane rules to strip the democratic process of its democracy.
According to the Denver Post: “Colorado GOP
leaders canceled the party’s presidential straw poll in August to avoid binding
its delegates to a candidate who may not survive until the Republican National
Convention in July.
“Instead,
Republicans selected national delegates through the caucus process, a move that
put the election of national delegates in the hands of party insiders and
activists — leaving roughly 90 percent of the more than 1 million Republican
voters on the sidelines.” Unsurprisingly,
Trump’s non-establishment campaign walked away with zero delegates. They were
all “awarded” to Ted Cruz.
“How is
it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in
the Republican Primary? Great anger — totally unfair!” Trump said on
Twitter. “The people of Colorado
had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in
politics. This will not be allowed!”
In an interview on Monday,
Trump was even more frank. “The system
is rigged, it’s crooked,” he said.
The Colorado GOP didn’t even bother
hiding its intentions, tweeting — then quickly removing — what was possibly the
most honest insight into the back-door dealing so far this election season:
Comments
The
Democrat Party is run by George Soros and nobody ease counts, because George funds
all the Communist activist groups in the US.
Actually most of their money comes from grants of US tax dollars from
unconstitutional federal departments, agencies and programs to fund US
Communist non-profit groups.
The
Republican Party is run by a group of Liberal RINOs who ignored the Constitution
and overspent us into oblivion.
Special
interest groups run both parties. Neither
Party has any interest in having a well-informed voter base.
We need
to ban special interest groups from making campaign contributions. Only voters should be able to make these
contributions and only for candidates who appear on their ballot.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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