Why I Voted For Trump
Anyone who would take the trouble to visit ActBlue on the Web and type in my user name and password would find out that I am one of the damned fools who gave just under $400 in small increments to Bernie Sanders' campaign, starting from day one of his unofficial announcement, all the way to the convention.
What makes me a damned fool is the simple fact that right from the start I was fully aware of Hillie's Hurdle; the arrogant Democratic Party's gang of committed superdelegates who, for much too long, have been telling the party faithful which candidate they will be allowed to vote for, other than the Republican choice.
I think we are all now starting to realize that despite the fact that he eventually lost the primary popular vote to Hillary, Bernie would have killed The Donald in the general election. But it will take a while for folks to realize that Sanders lost in the primary because his grassroots funding was limited to the largess of damned fools. Who else would be crazy enough to throw good money at a chance to leap Hillie's Hurdle? WikiLeaks eventually uncovered a deeper conspiracy within the DNC.
On Nov. 8th, as I headed to the polls, I knew that I didn't want Donny-Boy in the White House. I also knew that I didn't want the Clintons back with four to eight more years of the sleaziness they showed in their first occupancy there. But I knew further that no matter what, Hillary was going to win this one in a landslide. This being so, I knew that it would only add to the hubris of the DNC and exacerbate its undemocratic ways. Soooo, I knew that morning that if I helped Trump out a little with my vote, I could at least narrow the results just enough to where the DNC might eventually know that we damned fools are not happy.
Ooops! Who knew?
Johannanonymous
November 2016
They did it again. They actually
went ahead and did it again. They obviously failed to learn from 2016 that they
must always pay dearly for insulting the party disciplinarians.
What did the DNC do to make amends for the superdelegate scam they pulled in
2016, in order to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ campaign?
Well, they really did nothing.
Since the 2016 debacle, they changed the party’s rules to say that
superdelegates can no longer vote in the first ballot at the convention.
So what! How does this solve
the problem that Bernie ran into in 2016?
It does nothing!
First of all, the last time a Democratic convention went to a second ballot was
in 1952 when the Democratic Party nixed Estes Kefauver’s popular vote and
nominated the head janitor at the convention - Adlai Stevenson.
That little twerp Harry Truman was fearful of Kefauver who was promising
to drain the Democratic swamp. So,
he got together with the party apparatchiks to successfully draft Stevenson, who
initially made it clear he didn’t want to be president, but only came to the
convention to deliver the welcoming speech.
Amazing! But then, what would
have been the real solution to Bernie’s problem?
The DNC rules state that if a superdelegate should cross party lines before the
convention and endorse a candidate of another party, that person automatically
becomes persona non grata at the convention and his vote is disqualified.
But this rule should apply to endorsing ANY candidate prior to the
convention. Bernie’s problem was
that his campaign was stifled from day one of the campaign season when the
superdeligates threw their support en masse to Hillary Clinton.
The unspoken purpose of party superdelegates is similar to that of the electoral
college. Should the constituency of
a political party nominate a fellow by the name of Adolph Hitler, the
superdelegates can first step in to block der Fuhrer’s nomination.
If they should somehow fail, the electoral college can then go faithless
to prevent Mr. Schicklgruber from winning the general
election. The new DNC rule-change actually defeats this safety valve.
But, of course, the DNC has long lost sight of this hallowed mission in
favor of being the control freaks that they truly are.
So now, what did the Democratic Party do
this time to screw up.
Well, most of us knew by the middle of 2023 that Joe wasn’t going for a second
term. I mean, the guy was just about
drooling at the podium. But Joe
couldn’t be happy with bowing out gracefully. Joe had to be the queen-maker.
Part of his legacy would be to shoo-in the first woman president.
So, what he and the DNC did was to wait for the very last minute before
the convention to let us all know that he was obviously brain-dead, thereby
sabotaging the entire primary/caucus season.
Had he and the DNC allowed a real candidate to face off against The
Donald, instead of Joe’s unimpressive protégé, things might have been different.
Good move, guys.
What the DNC needs to accept is that in this day and age of squeaker elections,
in which a candidate just about needs to fool all of the people all of the time,
you can no longer pull off scams like 2016 and 2024 without alienating a
significant number of us voters who are always ready and willing to bite off our
noses to teach the elitists a lesson.
In other words, just enough votes to push an opposing candidate over the
top for the simple gratification of spite.
So, what’s the moral of the story here?
Perhaps it’s the bottom line of an old Peter, Paul and Mary song.
When will they ever learn?
Johannanonymous
November
2024