 So last week we talked about a story where in New York State Democratic Party officials were trying to get Bernie Sanders removed from the ballot Yes, he suspended his campaign. I get that but there's no threat here He's not going to have some type of unprecedented and come back and win So why would you remove him from the ballot and further alienate the left who already feels disenfranchised by the Democratic Party? Well, there's not really any reason rather than look Let's just functionally cancel the primary and not take any risks because we all know they're a little bit worried There's not very much enthusiasm for Joe Biden and there is this terror read story that has more and more evidence Proving that what she said about Joe Biden and what he did to her in the mid 90s is probably true so they don't want to take any chances and They don't believe in democracy they don't to functionally cancel a primary For no reason when Bernie poses no threat when he just wanted to rack up delegates to influence the platform. I Mean worst case scenario for them. He gets a lot more delegates and influences the platform a little bit But does that even matter? What good is the platform going to do like the left doesn't even believe the platform Will have any influence over Joe Biden? I don't anyways I mean I can only speak for myself But there's nothing that they have to gain from this, but they do have a lot to lose You know and further making the left more angry than they already are but nonetheless They went ahead with this and they have in fact removed Bernie Sanders from the ballot So if you live in the state of New York and you you know, you donated to Bernie Sanders You spent months phone banking for him canvassing for him knocking on doors for him Guess what your voice doesn't get to be heard. You don't get to make your voice heard How infuriating is that? They you know in 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost because a lot of young people didn't turn out What were we told by members of the Democratic Party? We were told that we should get involved right sign up for a candidate that we believe in run for office ourselves and they've done nothing but spit in our faces at every single step of the way and Try to resist What energy we have try to you know, suppress the left and young voters And I can't think of a bigger slap in the face than doing this so they did it and Bernie Sanders is speaking out and his team is challenging this decision So as Daniel Moran's of Huff Post writes the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders submitted a letter to the New York State Board of Elections on Sunday Challenging a looming decision on whether to keep him on the ballot for the state's primary Keep in mind this story was published before the decision was official Sanders formally suspended his campaign earlier this month But said that he planned to stay on the ballot in upcoming primaries in order to maximize his influence on the Democratic Party's platform in rules Five days later New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a budget bill with an obscure provision Authorizing the state's Board of Elections to remove from the primary ballot those candidates who have withdrawn from the presidential campaign Malcolm Seymour an attorney representing the Sanders campaign Argued in the letter to the board that the provision should not apply to Sanders Retroactively since he might have acted differently if it had been in effect when he decided to suspend his campaign Quote the retroactive application of the change in election law would severely impact senator Sanders core substantive rights Seymour wrote in the letter obtained by Huff Post because of the severity of this potential deprivation The presumption against retroactive application must operate with maximum force Seymour further noted that the new law merely states that the Board of Elections quote may rather than quote must Decide to remove from the ballot candidates who have ended their campaigns for the nomination So make no mistake about it. They didn't have to do this. They chose to do this I guess to further shield Joe Biden from tar reads allegations in case more people heard about it and you know Chose to opt for Bernie Sanders. Oh, maybe they weren't worried about that Maybe they just didn't want Bernie Sanders to have any influence over the democratic party's Meaningless platform and their meaningless rules that they don't even follow anyway Or maybe they don't even care about any of that Maybe they just genuinely want to give lefties the middle finger And just make sure that there's only one option on the ballot Neoliberalism because that's the direction that the party clearly wants to head in and they want to let everyone know They're not changing that trajectory anytime soon. Even if making your voice heard does no harm to them They just don't care. They don't care And thankfully people like aoc have spoken out and denounced this move. She tweeted It is completely wrong for the boe to cancel new york's presidential primary This decision is not informed by public health The state is still holding elections for every other seat that day And so far the only way your ballot will 100% be counted in new york is to vote in person So I think that people need to call this what it is. Don't beat around the bush. This is voter suppression. That's exactly what this is This is a form of voter suppression They don't want people to be able to make their voices heard Because these party elites they want to be in control They don't want you to have any say whatsoever and look throughout the course of this primary to be fair We were told that our voices don't matter. Remember when bernie sanders was leading and it looked like he was going to get a plurality Of pledge delegates. What were we told by democratic party officials in mainstream media that it's not us Who really has a say in democratic party primaries? It's the elites who really get to influence Who becomes the nominee? And you know, they were all media pundits democratic party officials perfectly okay With super delegates stealing the nomination away from bernie sanders So if they were okay with that Basically burning down the party to beat bernie then of course they're going to be fine with just removing him from the ballot After he already, you know suspended his campaign So I think that there's only one conclusion from this that we can take away bernie has to unsuspend his campaign because if your goal To rack up delegates um is still in play Then this is hindering that goal. I mean this is a very delegate rich state new york Has a lot of pledge delegates in play and even if you won't win If your true goal is at this point to influence the party's platform Then you have to unsuspend your campaign. You're not doing it because you believe you can win necessarily You're doing it because Functionally, this is the only way that you can fulfill that end that you set out. So you've got to unsuspend I'm not you know Going to say that bernie will do this because he won't but he's got to start playing hardball I mean, I guess it doesn't matter anymore because he's not going to run for president again But just generally speaking as a rule the left needs to realize that they will never beat the democratic party machine Unless they are willing to play hardball unless they are willing To put up a fight against the establishment who has a lot of institutional mechanisms that they will repeatedly use To suppress the left. So this is just it's disgusting And I really feel bad for anyone who lives in new york Who isn't going to be allowed to make their voices heard like how disgusting is this? I'm already mad enough that in my state of oregon Bernie Sanders dropped out before I could even make my voice heard my niece who's voting for the first time And wanted to enthusiastically support Bernie Sanders, you know, he already dropped out and she's not going to be able to vote Knowing that he has a chance because he dropped out But at least we can still make our voices heard at least we can still Check off the box for Bernie Sanders, but new yorkers. They don't even get that luxury like this is morally reprehensible And they don't care. That's the point. It's to be cruel to let you know who's in charge. It's not you. It's them This is a power play they just want to flex because um They have power and they will remind you of that repeatedly until the left takes power and kicks these goons out