I’m sorry but this constant barrage of diaries and comments alluding to this grand conspiracy of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC in the bag for Hillary and intentionally keeping Bernie Sanders down has not a shred of solid evidence behind it, only supposition. I have been flagged in the past when I’ve brought up possible conspiracies with much more fact and solid proof behind them such as elections where vote totals on election day were far off from polling and the connections between the Republicans and voting machine companies was unchallenged. Hell, we can’t even discuss the Kennedy assassination and discuss the conspiracy that the follow up to the Warren Commission acknowledged.
Why is it we can talk all day about the DNC/DWS plot but never mention a word about seriously contested conspiracies with solid evidence on both sides? Why are we bending over backwards to be nice to people on here that are shit stirring and not contributing to Democrats being elected? The DNC is vital to the success of many individual campaigns in 2016 not just the presidency. This supposed plot is as much speculation as chem trails and Bigfoot and only serves to help one side — the right.
The number of debates (the primary “proof” offered) is not evidence since there can be multiple reasons why this decision was made. It is a matter of obvious opinion who this choice helps more. National reputable polls indicate Hillary has won each of the previous ones and there’s no evidence more debates would not aid her campaign. Also debates are expensive and remove candidate attention from actual voters in the primary states. The other factor is from what we’ve seen the platforms of the candidates differ only slightly. What the hell is there to debate about? Do we want the candidates to start personally attacking one another like the Republicans? Anything Bernie could say bad about Hillary has already come out for decades and she’s successfully dodged them all. It would seem that Bernie’s eclectic past and the fact that he’s never really faced any organized attacks before would put him at a major disadvantage. One doesn’t even have to get particularly creative to write the attack ads against someone that sounds like Howard Beal from Network.
Lots of us on here are at that point where the site was in 2008 where Kos had to step in and ban the trollish activities of the Firebaggers. It came later in the process last time but this place is getting so bad now that we’re losing quality people that see things in colors other than black and white.
Time to take action Kos. We need you.