Perhaps this doesn't make the legal definition of a fix, but it the next best thing.
right .... it does not nor is it the next best thing.
The common phrase “the fix is in” means that the outcome of an event or process has been covertly manipulated to ensure a result that would otherwise be determined by chance or a fair test of some kind
That many "establishment" type Democrats did not want Sen Sanders was well known publicly. There was no covert manipulation i.e. stuffing ballot boxes, disenfranchising voters, etc, and I am not sure how one overtly manipulates anything, unless you are Mr Trump.
I quit the Democrat Party in 1972 because of party machinery and process.
Exactly. Well said. Nothing was stolen from Sanders. There was no electoral fraud. There was simply a preference of a party for a candidate that had been an affiliate for decades, versus one who joined just to run and kept criticizing the party at all steps.
What Bernie Sanders never understood is that you can't aspire to be the leader of a party, while shitting on the party at every opportunity.
You reap what you sow.
I find the DNC's preference for Hillary in 2016 and for Biden in 2020 perfectly legitimate, and perfectly within the normal and acceptable political process.
Sanders should be grateful to the Democratic Party for allowing him to run twice, using their infrastructure and their ability to insert his name into all ballots in all 50 states + territories. And Sanders joined the Dems to run in 2016, then after he lost, dropped out and became "independent" again. Then joined the party again in 2020 (at which point I think the party should have simply denied him the registration) just to run.
During his two opportunistic runs, he didn't stop bashing the party and its rules 100% of the time, and whining and complaining of the rules he was perfectly aware of when he signed on, and even, rules that he helped writing in 2020.
Nobody put a gun to Sander's head and forced him to run with the Democratic Party. If he didn't like the DNC and the party elders, he was free to run as an independent.
His attitude has always been divisive and whiny, then he is surprised that nobody likes him in the party (apparently he is a pariah in the Senate and has accomplished very little in his 40-50 years of political life; has a ridiculous low number of bills to his name (like, single digits, two of them being renaming some post office agencies)???
Join the party properly, stay in, pay his dues so to speak, engage in agreements and cooperation with the party elders, then run properly, upholding the party's rules, and I guarantee he wouldn't have faced as many contrary winds.
Barack Obama came out of nowhere in 2008, ran against the Clinton machine, against the party's establishment, and won. He wasn't a whiner. He was a winner.
If the DNC were as powerful as the whiny Bernie Bros. like to complain about, Barack Obama would not have won the 2008 nomination against the Clinton machine.
Barack Obama = a winner.
Bernie Sanders = a loser.
The only reason his movement appeared at some point to be expressive enough (but still lost by 3.7 million popular votes) was because of the anti-Hillary vote.
Cut to his own size, Bernie Sanders got a shellacking in 2020, inflicted on him by a very old and half-demented politician facing sexual assault accusations.
The truth that no Bernie Brother wants to acknowledge is that Bernie Sanders is a loser and the American people don't want him to be president.
Sanders at best in the 2020 primaries had 30% of the electorate in some states, more like 20% in others. That's among the Dem and Dem-leaning primary voting independents.
Well, he isn't getting any votes from Republicans and Rep-leaning independents, which is the other half of the electorate.
So, that 20% to 30% needs to be cut in half when we think of all Americans.
Therefore, only 10 to 15% of Americans want Sanders as president. That's the real size of his movement.
Bernie Brothers kept saying he was the candidate of the people. Huh, no. The people don't want him. The people wanted Hillary in 2016, and Biden in 2020.
Sure, again, the people can make poor choices (the present occupant of the White House is a case-in-point) but that happens in democracies.
From this, to say that Sanders is the candidate of the people and the nominations (2016, 2020) were stolen from him, are blatant lies and quasi-psychotic denial of reality. Such level of denial is typical of personality cults. I see these deluded Bernie or Bust crowd involved in a cult of personality as no better than the Trump cultists.
