Trump is what you get when you don't defend Democracy

The anger and disgust over Donald Trump becoming the president continues again today and likely will go over for the entire time he is president.

The thing that we should be wondering about, though, is this: how did this happen?

The answer isn't pretty: Trump is the result of the majority of Americans failing to defend the democratic process and allowing Clinton's corruption to go unresisted until it was too late.

It first started when the primaries began.  The Republicans had 17 different people decide to run and 12 of them participated in the primary.  That's a lot, but it's understandable.  The Democrats had only 6 people run, and just 3 of them actually participated in the primary: Clinton, Sanders, and O'Malley.  That seemed a bit low, but okay.

O'Malley dropped out early, leaving just Clinton and Sanders.  And this is where democracy got trampled.  The DNC, which is supposed to be a neutral and objective observer of the primary, got involved.  It wasn't just a small involvement either, it was headed up by the leader of the party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

This group of conspirators called Bernie Sanders "a problem" that they needed to "get rid of".  As has been shown, this group deliberately sabotaged the will of the people and did whatever they could to ruin Bernie Sanders campaign, in order to have their preferred candidate, Clinton, win the nomination.

This is an abhoration against democracy.  The whole concept of an election, whether it is a primary or whatever, is that the people are told the truth about the candidates: their history, what they stand for, how they plan to help the people once elected, etc.  The people then make a decision about who they want to be the leader, and they vote for that person.

One thing that is key to the democratic election process is this: the organisation put in charge of running the election must be neutral.  They must act objectively and fairly, and do everything they can to avoid influencing the election in any way whatsoever.  Otherwise, we get the situation that happens in communist countries: they hold an "election", and the candidate from the communist party ends up getting 100% of the vote.  Everyone knows those so-called elections are a sham since the process isn't fair to all candidates - the person from the communist party gets special and preferred treatment, while their opponents are repressed and censored by the media and made to look terrible.  Elections like that are just for show, so the dictating party in power can claim that their rule is the will of the people.

This exact same thing happened during the Democratic primary.  The primary was not conducted fairly or freely; the body that was running the primary and that was supposed to be neutral and fair was, in reality, actually acting completely biased towards one of the candidates.  The DNC actively worked to discredit Bernie Sanders whereever possible and to influence people to vote for Clinton.

In the end, it worked.  Clinton won the nomination.

But it wasn't without word of the DNC's actions getting out.  Even before the DNC convention, evidence was leaking out about how the DNC had rigged the primary against Sanders and the primary was not being conducted fairly.

What the DNC did was a serious violation of democracy and freedom.

Now, the question is: where were you while this was happening - what were you doing?

Were you like this:

No.  That woman was in the very very small minority.  Most of you were standing there going, "owell, whatever..."

But that should have been your time.  THAT was the time to stand up and protest what had happened.  Even if you supported Clinton, it was still the time to say, "wait, I support Clinton, but was the primary conducted fairly?  It wasn't?  Then this is wrong."

What was most surprising about the whole thing is that even after it was clearly shown that the DNC had been biased and had definitely rigged the primary and thus, affected the result, very few people did the right thing and demand that the result be invalidated.

Democracy had been trampled on by the DNC: instead of being a neutral party, they had effectively dictated to the people who their next president was going to be.

This is when you should have stood up and said NO.

But surprisingly, almost all of you did nothing.  You failed to defend the democratic process.  Whether you supported Sanders or Clinton is irrelevant: the issue at hand was that the primary was conducted un-democratically.

Instead, most of you did this:

You accepted that democracy had been bypassed and just brushed it off like it didn't matter.  But it DID matter - if you believe in freedom and democracy, you should have been speaking out, objecting to the result, and demanding an invalidation.  We had many discussions with the Democrats, and what was said was shocking.  Despite all the evidence that Clinton's win of the nomination had not been done fairly, all people said were things like:

• "Well, it doesn't matter because she probably would have won anyways."
• "Now is not the time to worry about it, now is the time to focus on party unity.  We have to rally behind Clinton now."
• "Well, the primary is over, and we just have to accept it."

NO.  No you didn't have to accept it.  There should have been massive protests and social outrage over it.  The way the Democratic primary was run, with the DNC deliberately trying to help one of the candidates to win, is criminal.  It's anti-freedom and it's anti-democratic in every way because what it was, effectively, was a seizure of power.  The exact same way that dictators and totalitarianists take power.

How can you say it was okay to accept that, yet now it's not okay to accept that Trump won the election?

It was a huge disappointment to see how people just accepted the result.  Very little was said against it.  People were attacked for simply questioning if the primary had been fair.

And that was you - the majority of Democrats - attacking anyone who questioned the result - in other words, defending the illegal and undemocratic way the primary was run.

Why did you do it?  Why wasn't there a massive outcry against the primary result, in the same way that there is now about the Trump presidency?

See, you didn't stand up for democracy there.  You accepted it when Clinton and the DNC jackbooted democracy in order for her to get the nomination.  You weren't defending freedom there; you weren't standing up for what was right; and you were actually attacking people who had the nerve to question the injustice that was done to Bernie Sanders.

And guess what?

As a result of your actions, the Democrats ran a candidate who was so corrupt, so weak, and so bad that someone like Donald Trump beat her.  Think about that for a moment: your candidate lost to...  

Donald J. Trump.  Wow.

While it's impossible to say how Sanders would have done, all the polls indicate that he was much, much more popular than Trump.  It's very likely that Sanders would have won the election, though we'll never know that now.

And who knows - perhaps if you would have stood up for democracy and demanded that the primary result be overturned, perhaps a fair re-vote would have still made Clinton the nominee.  That would have been perfectly fine.  If Clinton had won the nomination through a fair and clean process, then yes, there would be nothing to say here and happily, this blog post would not have been written.

But Clinton didn't win fairly.  And you didn't stand up against it.  And now, Trump is the result.

If you're a Democrat today, and you're complaining about Trump now, but you did nothing about the un-democratic, unfair, and illegal process that was the Democratic primary, then you're part of the problem.  This is what happens when people allow the democratic process to be subverted.  You looked the other way when the DNC was biasing the primary.  Debbie Wasserman Schulz, Donna Brazile, and the entire lot of conspirators should be on criminal trial right now for what they did.

So if you're angry about a Trump presidency, remember this: THOSE are the people who had a great influence on it happening.  Those are the people that you should be protesting as well, demanding that the conspirators be arrested and tried for the crimes the committed.  They are the ones who bear a large responsibility for it.

LKvi