re: #26 Nyet

To summarize: You have to be a registered member of a party in order to vote in their primary. To many people who had, right up until last weekend, never even given this fact a moment’s thought, this became a grave injustice because, it turns out, they registered as independents and not Democrats and had no chance of voting in the primary. The outrage poured out and the rhetoric about “voter suppression” abounded.

This wasn’t just some social media fancy, however. Sanders was happily stoking this nonsense. ABC News ran a video of Sanders and some bearded white guy in New York chattering about how much a bummer it is that non-Democrats can’t vote in the Democratic primary, with Sanders intoning dramatically about how independent voters ” have lost their right to vote”. Which is blooey nonsense, since political parties are private organizations that your are free to join if you want, and these voters just chose not to.

Fuck Bernie. Srsly.