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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I think if Bernie Sanders wanted to win a nomination process based almost entirely off independents...he should have ran as an independent where there are no party rules. But Bernie knew the rules (or if he didn't, is a moron) when he chose to run as a Dem. That he now wants to change them in the middle of the race to help him out is laughable. He's also won a couple closed primaries himself, and I don't remember him saying anything bad about them then.
The ironic part of the "independent" argument is that a significant amount of Bernie's support comes from people to the left of the Democratic Party, and a lot from people who choose to be independent so as not to be labeled, even though they back one party most of the time (mostly the Democratic Party). They pridefully chose not to align themselves with a political party... and now they're whining they've been excluded from the party process. Maybe if they just swallowed their pride and registered with Dems, who they vote for the most often anyway, things could have gone different. Pride, as always, ####s with you though.
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Yet again, there are states where you can, as an independent, vote for the primary. This race brought that discrepancy to the forefront.
Regardless of whether Sanders gets elected or not, his candidacy did a lot of good. It showed just how pervasive money is in politics, it showed that there is a strong progressive movement in this country that deserves representation, it showed just how monumentally disasterous our primary processes are, etc.
He's pulled Hillary left of where she typically stands and brought attention to issues that otherwise might've been ignored, which we desperately need. This country has pulled so far to the right that if we can just try to correct things back to center, it's a good thing.