So here’s how the messy and undemocratic process turned out:
Never forget that candidates have been elected President of the United States without winning a single convention delegate from Iowa caucuses and that they really do not matter
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) February 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/Politidope/status/1224518793185103873
I know some people think this is democracy in action. I think it is a hot mess. Just have a fucking primary and include voting by mail so if you want to avoid annoying human life, you can. https://t.co/meCrqKWAFq
— HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) February 4, 2020
Who could have guessed the Iowa caucus precinct reporting app would shit the bed https://t.co/PCue6a0CIn
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) February 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1224544199476903942
Or maybe Establishment Democrats are just too damn dumb to run an election?
The Establishment Democrats are up to their old, dirty tricks once again (See 2016).
Conservative, Neo-liberal Joe Biden was the Democratic Establishments choice to win in Iowa, but he came in either 4th or 5th.
The probable result in Iowa:
Sanders
Buttigieg
Warren
Klobuchar
Biden (and it’s gonna get worse for Joe in N.H.)
That result was a disaster for the big money donors and corporate sponsors of Joe Biden and for the Establishment wing of the Democratic Party.
So…the powers that be turned the Iowa caucus into a ridiculous joke which allowed Biden and the Democratic Establishment to save face.
The Establishment Democrats next move was to begin talking up Bloomberg as a suitable substitute for Biden. (Who couldn’t have seen that coming?)
Are the oligarchs and plutocrats setting us up for a battle between two corrupt, billionaire oligarchs?
That makes a person start to wonder about things, now don’t it, as Swap Rabbit might ask.
Not so sure about the DNC conspiracy angle, but this definitely is a cluster f**c that should end the caucus system and end Iowa as a bellwether for the primary. They had four years to get this right. Pathetic fail.
The incompetence at both the state and national level of the DNC is obvious. Perhaps they should have spent a little more time on how to run their process, and less time focused on how to kneecap Bernie.
With the impeachment and S o t Union speech coming soon, this is a gift to the Biden campaign (and the Trojan Horse campaign on Bloomberg), as the news cycle will move on without any highlighting of Bernie’s probable victory and Uncle Joe’s ignominious thrashing. No doubt just a coincidence.
As a somewhat OT aside, this also highlights the experience of many of us with oversold and underperforming “techy” apps that are supposed to make everything more wonderful but totally f**k up for one reason or another.
Paper ballots. Real voting elections. Mail in. Voting day registration. And “inadvertantly” purging eligible voters should carry the same penalty as fraudulent registration or voting. Jail time or deportation, your choice. /S
Somebody once said that there were no coincidences in politics that weren’t hatched in a smoke filled backroom.