 So, I think that we all knew that if Bernie Sanders really started to gain a lot of momentum, this primary was going to get super ugly, and we are to that point where it's getting ugly, and I can only anticipate it getting much, much uglier because we are now in a situation where the Democratic Party establishment is so tormented over the prospect of Bernie Sanders winning the nomination that they are openly discussing a plan to just outright steal the nomination away from Bernie Sanders at the convention. So, how are they trying to do this? Well, there's a couple of members from the DNC who are proposing a reversal to the rules change that was adopted by the Unity Reform Commission. So, as you all know, the power of superdelegates was, it was diminished, so now they can only vote on a second round if nobody wins outright. So, these individuals are really hoping that in the event there isn't a contested convention and Bernie Sanders, you know, is the clear front runner, they still have some way to stop him from winning. And the way that they want to do that is to bring back the power and influence of superdelegates. Now, for more on this, we've got a David Siders of Politico who explains a small group of Democratic National Committee members has privately begun gauging support for a plan to potentially weaken Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and head off a brokered convention. In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC Executive Committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party's national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress, and other top party officials who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested. Quote, I do believe we should reopen the rules. I hear it from others as well. One DNC member said in a text message last week to William Owen, a DNC member from Tennessee who does not support reopening the rules. Owen, who declined it to identify the member, said the member added in a text that it would be hard though we could force a meeting or on the floor. Even proponents of the change acknowledge it is all but certain not to gain enough support to move past these initial conversations, but the talks reveal the extent of angst that many establishment Democrats are feeling the eve of the Iowa caucuses. So this is just despicable. It's morally reprehensible. You have members of a party with democracy in their name openly stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders. Pretty brazenly so. I mean why else would you float a rules change? They're saying it. They're not even hiding it. We want to steal the nomination from Bernie Sanders or at a minimum bring back superdelegates so that way the media can start counting superdelegates with pledged delegates and that gives voters the impression that he's more behind because he will get less support from superdelegates obviously than just pledged delegates. It will make it seem like you know the lead between him and Joe Biden is insurmountable because the establishment hates him you know superdelegates will side with whoever the nominee is with the exception of Bernie Sanders even Elizabeth Warren they'd support her over Bernie. So I mean you've got to understand that whatever they can do to tip the scales that's what they're trying to do even if it means ruining democracy but understand this this would not just ruin democracy this would destroy the Democratic Party and I don't just mean that they lose to Donald Trump because that would be a certainty but this would destroy the Democratic Party they would collapse and a new party would have to take its place because voters would be so outraged that there would be no recovering from it they would lose fundraising the institution wouldn't be able to sustain itself in the event they did something this brazen and people millions of people would take to the streets because this would not be acceptable I would predict that even members of the party who don't support Bernie Sanders would speak out because this is so brazenly undemocratic I mean this is this is quite literally authoritarian where you undermine the will of voters because you don't like the results of the election I mean they talk about how Vladimir Putin influenced the 2016 election and yet here they are trying to steal the election brazenly so now look I don't want you to feel discouraged I don't want you to take away from the story that the situation is hopeless because this is actually a really good sign for us specifically because it indicates that he really can win he can win if they're saying this now there's only about six members but I will say this they need to show themselves like reveal your names don't be a coward they need to speak up and Tom Perez needs to fire them immediately this would not be acceptable even if they said look let's steal it from Joe Biden they should be fired because you have to allow voters to make their decision even if you don't like that result look we're doing everything in our power to win this primary for Bernie Sanders but if it's fair and voters just don't side with us I'll be demoralized but at least I will know that voters had their voices heard but if you know for whatever reason things went south and Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg emerged as the nominee and the DNC stole it that would be so fundamentally immoral I wouldn't be able to support it like if they stole it from Joe Biden which they never would do and gave it to Bernie as a Bernie supporter I couldn't support that that's how immoral and undemocratic it is either you believe in democracy or you don't now Tom Perez responded to this because as soon as this article came out it blew up and he said absolutely not we put in the work to ensure power was returned to the grassroots we will be following the rules set forth by the DNC we will not bend on this we will not change our rules now um I guess this is a good sign that he's saying this although can we trust Tom Perez I can't say with a straight face of course we can't he changed the rules to accommodate Mike Bloomberg after fucking over Mike Gravel why well I don't know but Mike Bloomberg did donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the DNC so is he willing to change the rules yes will he change the rules in this instance he's saying no but uh just understand this Tom Perez we're watching we're watching very very closely because you're not going to be able to get away with this like what do you expect just for us to get a plurality or majority of delegates and then you just say actually we choose Joe Biden and we're just going to be cool with that do you understand like there's no way that a rational minded individual in the DNC would be okay with this knowing the repercussions knowing the backlash there there's no like they'd be insane but just the fact that you have about six people half a dozen or so probably more openly floating this prospect of stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders it shows you that this institution is rotten to its core and in the event Bernie Sanders does become the nominee then he's got a clean house fire every single person at the DNC leave no stone unturned get them all out because if you have this type of culture at the DNC that's this toxic to where they are so brazen about their hatred of Bernie Sanders and the grassroots that they'd outright steal the election we can't have that so here's the thing when you get to a certain point the establishment can only do so much like we saw this in 2016 and we're seeing the same thing now you know the the RNC was definitely trying to do whatever they could to fuck over Donald Trump who had individuals like Mitt Romney float you know possible runs we're seeing that now with John Kerry but guess what it may be too late for them Bernie Sanders may very well be unstoppable we don't know we don't know but just the mere fact that this conversation is taking place with members of the DNC who have power it's downright despicable it's morally reprehensible and every single elected democrat should be speaking out against this at the top of their lungs because if you believe in democracy and you truly want some type of alternative to the republican party you've got to condemn this and i'm calling on every single person to speak out against this because this is downright sick this is gross this is perverted anyone who would be willing to stoop to this they really should not be participating in politics and they should be fired immediately it's unacceptable so i don't think that they're going to be successful here but that doesn't mean that we should be naive and trust them and we certainly have to watch them very closely be vigilant and you know not let our guards down because we may have to protest there may need to be you know amass occupy the democratic convention event there may be you know walkouts if they do this you know they don't know what they just did like they are they are opening the door to just peer destruction of their party so i don't think that they would be able to do this but again the fact that it's being floated completely unacceptable they've got to be 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