Susan Sarandon Says ‘DNC Is Completely Corrupt’

[Ca Bob]

The DNC is full of idealistic people with a lot of real world, practical experience. I've known quite a few of them. They are also part of a political organization that tries to straddle a lot of gulfs created by competing interests. The environmentalists and labor organizers don't always agree on some specific item, and back in the day, the pro-Israel and anti-Israel groups would put forward competing resolutions at the state convention. When the DNC members from all over the country get together, they can't seem to find and execute a suitable reform for the Iowa/New Hampshire first caucus/primary system, even though it's worked mainly to the advantage of northeastern candidates over the years. But when Donald Trump claimed that everything was fixed against Bernie ("He never had a chance."), I am not so swayed. Sanders was getting huge crowds all over California before the primaries got started. He was developing a following even then, and it grew. What he couldn't do was get enough votes in the early primaries, and he fell further and further behind in the late primaries. I don't think that anything the DNC did this year or last year had anything to do with those losses. I do think that the order in which we hold primaries is of some importance, and I fault the DNC and the RNC (not to mention state legislatures) for this problem.

In addition, Jill Stein is not my idea of a deep thinker.