[rad-green] DNC Loses Public Trust in Primary Process on Very First Day

*https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/05/dnc-loses-public-trust-in-primary-process-on-very-first-day/
<https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/05/dnc-loses-public-trust-in-primary-process-on-very-first-day/>*

*Consortium News                 February 5, 2020*

DNC Loses Public Trust in Primary Process on Very First Day
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.

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*By Caitlin Johnstone
<https://consortiumnews.com/tag/caitlin-johnstone/>**CaitlinJohnstone.com
<https://caitlinjohnstone.com/>*
*After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled
<https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/04/its-the-dnc-stupid-democratic-party-not-russia-has-delegitimized-the-democratic-process/>
with scandals
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-dnc-fraud-lawsuit-has-been-dismissed-dismiss-the-democratic-party-7413e4de0b43>,
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
<https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1224579634983063552?s=20> to
establishment
insiders
<https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/iowa-caucus-app-shadow-acronym/> and
to the Pete Buttigeig campaign
<https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1224579282917363713?s=20>, 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
<https://news.yahoo.com/buttigieg-leads-iowa-caucuses-with-62-percent-of-the-results-counted-220814356.html>
, 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. [After 71 percent of the vote counted Buttigieg was still
ahead
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/04/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus.html?state=default>
on
Wednesday morning.]

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 <http://archive.is/tXaYB>. “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
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucusDisaster?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
 Update: @leefang <https://twitter.com/leefang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> reports
Acronym—the main investor in #IowaCaucus
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> app
developer "Shadow"— had senior leadership that "regularly expressed
hostility to @BernieSanders
<https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> supporters."

CEO of Acronym also married @PeteButtigieg
<https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> staffer
https://t.co/HP6QVx61BX

— Jordan (@JordanChariton) February 4, 2020
<https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1224801272852893698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

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
<https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1224564353040625665?s=20> 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.

I see many people blaming this on incompetence, some in bad faith and some
in good, but in either case there is no legitimate reason to do that
anymore. It has been my experience that if someone seems to be totally
incompetent but every “oopsie” they make just happens to end up benefiting
them, it’s manipulation you’re dealing with, not incompetence. Some people
are happy to look dumb if they can get what they want. If you watch their
actions and ignore their words, a very revealing pattern shows up
immediately.

This is all extremely blatant, and the feelings it brings up in people are
completely legitimate
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/only-assholes-bitch-about-sanders-supporters-being-rude-online-c95faa4b43b8>
. Yet narrative managers like Neera Tanden
<https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1224542311364857858?s=20> and Shannon
Watts <https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1224553623905918976> 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
<https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1224542311364857858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

If you’re implying there’s a conspiracy against your candidate due to
#IowaCaucuses
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucuses?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> delay,
you’re no better than this guy? https://t.co/1lfky5th0G

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 4, 2020
<https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1224553623905918976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

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 U.S. electoral system and therefore don’t undermine
American democracy; of course they do. If your country has a rigidly
enforced two-party system
<https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/28/politics/howard-schultz-electoral-college-difficulty/index.html>
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
<https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/27/the-establishment-doesnt-fear-trump-and-it-doesnt-fear-bernie-it-fears-you/>
 behind the two-handed sock puppet show
<https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/14/americas-two-headed-one-party-system/>
 of the official elected government.

The U.S. 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 U.S. 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.

*Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who
publishes regularly **at Medium* <https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone>*.
Follow her work on **Facebook* <https://www.facebook.com/CaitlinAJohnstone/>
*, **Twitter* <https://twitter.com/caitoz>*, or her **website*
<http://caitlinjohnstone.com/>*. **She has a **podcast*
<https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue>* and a book, **“**Woke: A Field Guide
for Utopia Preppers*
<https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Field-Guide-Utopia-Preppers/dp/064823455X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8>
*.”*

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