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There is nothing more disturbing than having one's illusions dashed. I get it.
But you say they "preferred" Clinton? Is that the way it is supposed to be? If Sanders was running in their party should they not have been impartial and let the voters decide (without showing preference)?
Oh wait, the voters don't really decide, do they? Only the so-called "super-delegates" get to make that call. You know, the ones who can vote however they are told to.
So please, my friend, don't make it sound as though it were a high school prank. It was a concerted effort to quash the progressives. It didn't work - because people actually wanted to be heard. Now they have to deal with it. But the cover-up is always worse than the event.
Not so hypothetical: A sitting president is shown to have ties with a conspiracy to bug his opponents. His campaign is using a slush fund to undertake covert actions against said political adversaries. There is no direct proof - or smoking gun. Who is responsible? Even if he claims he didn't know, then what else doesn't he know? Who handed out authority to people who perpetrated the crimes?
This is a big deal - and the sooner they get out in front of it, the better it will be.
It is a question of moral responsibility.

Zeke, why, when someone disagrees, do you have to make it personal? Why is your response ridicule rather than facts? I find it rather insulting and irritating. You say "It was a concerted effort to quash the progressives." - Yet, once again, provide no examples of how this was done. To save you some trouble, I've read through the Intercept's oh-so-unbiased reportage, and even there it is more accusation than substance.

This is the kind of response that I find so infuriating. "That you don't want to see the truth is understandable. There is nothing more disturbing than having one's illusions dashed. I get it." What unmitigated bullsh!t. I'm simply pointing out that this conspiracy theory, like so many others, has no substance, merely innuendo.

It ain't personal.
Why would high ranking executives write the emails that really do exist? Why would the party that is supposed to be impartial show bias? You said that (they "preferred her"), not me.
The emails show a lot.It is that simple. It is logic.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Sanders or Sanders to Clinton? The argument is silly. There is no proof that those emails didn't mean more than "water-cooler". We (neither of us) know what was going on in the heads of the top tier of the DNC. And we don't know if any action was taken.
It's not personal, NW, it is purely rational. Something lacking in your argument.
To call it a conspiracy theory is to assume it without fact. It is an opinion. I disagree. I have emails which trump conjecture on what one may think they mean. Hence your argument is based on something whose results no one can possibly know - i.e., the results of emails THAT ACTUALLY DO EXIST.

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I hope that Trump keeps opening his big mouth and going rouge, all the way until November, and causes the GOP and its voters so much embarrassment that most stay home and The Dems win both the House and the Senate and we can finally get some work done.

I don't normally buy into the correlation is causation gambit but when one assembles a timeline of the accusations, lawsuits, and then the resignations on the back end of the email dump, followed by the Hillary campaign asking for a much more progressive DNC chair, one does see a loose fitting set of puzzle pieces that point to some smelly business.

And the talk of Bernie not being "a real Democrat" is no longer "cricket" either because the man might not now be a "real Democrat" but he has now shown how he would like to SEE a real Democratic Party do business by using his campaign swan song as an example.
By being the classy guy he is, he is showing them how they should be, and in my book, he has done the Democratic Party a great service while transcending party politics to a certain extent at the same time.

And by the way, plenty of Bernie fans AND Democrats have responded in kind. Unity IS happening. It is slow, it is messy, it is still rife with bad blood but it is beginning to heal.

And Bernie WILL be an important asset to the Hillary administration. She's not stupid. She knows enough to align with a class act.

At this point, with a Godwin Approved Nazi at the gates, I'm thinking this is straight self preservation.
Use the money bomb any way you can, just vaporize that Cheeto Jesus any way you can.

EDIT: Like another great Ranter already said: "I'd like to see the 538 say she's at 98% by September.
Yeah, I think I can relax at that point. Not even the most strenuous Republican voting machine hacks can overcome a 98% tidal wave.

Exactly.

Would the DNC appoint an Independent as Chair? Naw...that would be too progressive.

While I understand the point you make, an old adage comes to mind:
"You sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas"

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