The Stupidity (or Deceptiveness? or Both?) of Pretending Election SOP is a Plot Against Your Guy

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Monday October 12, 2015 · 6:21 PM PDT

2015/10/12 · 18:21

There's nothing like seeing people who pride themselves on their ethics and intelligence first write, then Rec, such a blatantly bogus and mendacious diary as one that's currently being marched up the Rec List.

Said diary claims that it's! so! stoooopid! and! unfair! that the DNC doesn't have DNC-run voter registration booths at Bernie Sanders' rallies, complete with quotes from a Sanders campaign strategist, Tad Devine, implying that it's all A Sinister Plot that targets only Bernie, when in fact he knows full well that the longstanding practice for the primaries has always been to let the state organizations for each candidate handle voter registration. But demonizing accepted and innocuous election practices as somehow unfair has been a running theme with certain surrogates for certain candidates.

This is a case where key people working on behalf of a candidate, people who know the rules and why they exist, are pushing a bogus interpretation of them, counting on the majority of their supporters to either not know the truth or not care about it. And the fact that so many people here are fine with it, people who I know must know better, saddens me.

These are people I thought I could trust to value honesty, to value competence. I mean those are among the reasons why they're backing Their Guy, right? Because he's honest and sincere and competent and and not in the least skeevy and all that? Yet I see them repeating lies told against other candidates because they think it helps Their Guy. I see them Rec Listing diaries based on bogosities because they think it helps Their Guy. The ones who normally despise and shun electoral politics and are thus largely ignorant of it, I can almost forgive. But it's the people who know better that really disturb me.

March can't come fast enough.

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