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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
For the Democrats, ‘It’s Deja vu all over again’
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Here’s what the Corporatocracy is up to today, FEBRUARY 4th, 2020
Yesterday, the state of #Iowa kicked off the beginning of the democratic primary process. For the next five months, democrats will vote, state by state to determine who will represent the democratic party in the general election next November against President Trump. And as America woke up this morning to hear who won the Iowa vote last night, interest or enthusiasm gave way to dread: the results are “in dispute”, say DNC officials,who claim a “coding error in the App” that tallies the votes has corrupted the voting data.
Posts on social media were trending, including -quote- “The #Iowa vote was a debacle.” “The Democrats are at it again” and “Mayor Pete is a cheat: #MayorCheat”. The latter “#MayorCheat” hashtag was due to establishment candidate Pete Buttegieg announcing an early victory with zero precincts reporting in. And, according to indie outlet @TheGrayzoneNews, the Voting App under suspicion is -quote- “a dark money operation funded by anti-Sanders billionaires [and] Its top donor, Seth Klarman, is a Buttigieg supporter”..and proponent of Israeli Appartheid in Palestine.
According to his own internal data, later released, Mayor Pete came in a distant second to candidate Bernie Sanders. And according to internal data from both the Sanders and Buttegie campaigns, Senator Bernie Sanders was the clear winner in Iowa. Knowing this in advance, it’s unclear why Mayor Pete claimed early victory, thus the trending hashtag this morning, “#MayorCheat”.
In fact, the internal data from those two campaigns match the predictions by entrance polling that were released early on: by all accounts, the Bernie Sanders campaign had a convincing win, getting over 40% of the Iowa vote including 51% of young voters, aged 18-29. Despite the Sanders’ campaign impressive performance in Iowa, frustration among his supporters is at a fever pitch. Berners are furious about the DNC’s widely recognized bias against Bernie, and many are claiming the delayed results in Iowa are tactical: to distract from Bernie’s win and dampen campaign momentum.
On social media, some Berners are lamenting having wasted the last four years trying to build a coalition within the corrupt DNC instead of building a 3rd Party as many prominent Progressive voices had suggested after the 2016 primary: some select comments include:
- “Jimmy Dore (@Jimmy_Dore) was right about forming a new party. Iowa is just the start, guys. The Democratic Party will not allow Bernie to win”
- “After this #IowaCaucuses shitshow, it's clear we need more leverage on the oligarchy.”
- And from indie journo Lee Camp (@LeeCamp), “The DNC knew they needed to stop the caucuses from going for Bernie Sanders. With funding from Biden & Buttigieg’s campaigns, they created an app thru a secret company literally called “Shadow Inc”! At worst it was meant to rig the results, at best it was meant to crash & delay them.”
- Indie journo Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) adds “...there is a conspiracy against Bernie Sanders, the establishment is very open about their intention to stop him. So you can’t blame people for assuming Iowa was part of the plot.”
Speaking of “the [DNC] plot” against Sanders as Rania called it, she tweeted a 7-min video yesterday listing out the obvious evidence that the DNC elites are trying to sabotage Bernie’s campaign. The most consequential sabotage, Rania says, is their latest move to stack the DNC committees with “a mix of neoliberal corporate hacks, pro-Israel lobyists and regime-change stooges to obstruct Bernie’s agenda.” It’s as if they’re planning a pre-emptive coup.” Rania says.
The DNC committees determine policy positions that could -technically- prevent Bernie from winning the nomination even if he wins the delegate race. Here is just a small sampling of who the DNC appointed to their committees, as reported by indie journo Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) of @TheGrayzoneNews:
- Pro-Apartheid Israel operatives like Bakari Sellers and Dan Shapiro;
- James Boland who’s on the board of the CIA front group National Endowment for Democracy (NED);
- Michael Steed whose investment firm has been charged for corruption in their management of pension fund businesses;
- Claire Lucas of USAID which is a “central arm of Washington’s hybrid war on socialist states around the world.”; and
- John Podesta (of all people) who was exposed by wikileaks for helping Hillary Clinton rig the democratic primary against Bernie in 2016.
What’s important to know about the DNC appointments is that they can heavily influence the Democratic National Convention in July when the final democratic nominee is officially ratified. If the leading nominee doesn’t have enough votes to outright win the nomination, then superdelegates vote at the convention to determine the final nominee. In the democratic party, the superdelegates include about 750 elected officials, party elders, and activists who are appointed by the DNC leadership. So, superdelegate votes are heavily influenced by the DNC Committees mentioned above.
And given the way the DNC leadership has stacked its committees, the Sanders team believes their only real chance in 2020 is to make sure he’s the outight nominee among democratic voters. That’s not as easy as it might seem. It was the Superdelegate system that pushed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary. And in 2016, superdelegate votes are credited for influencing Hillary Clinton’s win over Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary…
In her comments today after the Iowa vote, anti-establishment candidate Tulsi Gabbard said, plainly, that the DNC is "rigging the primary process for billionaire candidates". She was referring of course to billionaire candidate Michael Bloomberg, who entered the primary late. Bloomberg missed the deadline to qualify for Iowa yesterday and New Hampshire next week. It seems a huge disadvantage, but many believe that the savvy billionaire is playing the superdelegate system: he only needs to take enough delegates away from Sanders to force a superdelegate vote at the Democratic Convention, which most experts, including Sanders’ own aides, believe Bloomberg would win very easily.
So have the corporate elites in the DNC rigged the 2020 Primary again against Sanders? If so, will Sanders supporters begin renewed talk of an independent run in the general election?
That’s what we’ll be watching for and reporting here ongoing. And along the way, we’ll discuss ways that we should all be working together now to ensure that whatever the outcome of the election, we’ll have sufficient leverage against the Corporatocracy to force real change. Indeed, as the corporate elites in the DNC have reminded us in Iowa, if there’s gonna be a real revolution, it’ll require more leverage than just voting and protest marches.
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