Gotta lot to do, DA, and can’t go into a point-by-point rebuttal, but I’d like to clear up some misconceptions:
- “Because in the context of a primary in a democracy, the political party seems most analogous to a market regulator. Their job isn’t to be involved in picking winners and loser, or even have a preference for one market participant over another. Their job is to ensure that the markets function correctly.”
Completely incorrect.
For starters, people are asked to run for office, they just don’t run for office. This is how the party seats are filled in the local, city, state level… and even nationally, at times (though, by the time one becomes a state or national-level player, you pretty much are set on a career path.)
Secondly, in the Venn Diagram that comprises Democratic Party candidates, there is a circle in the middle which almost all intersecting arcs must share - this is called “principles”, “policy”, or “positions”… and if you want to run as a Democrat on anything more than a purely local level, you must agree to hold these core positions.
These positions, obviously, did not spring up ex nihlio, they did not happen by accident, nor do they exist because the “voters”/“customers” demanded it. These positions are not determined democratically, they are determined in committee. There is no “market” for policy positions that Democratic politicians or voters get to select from, except in influencing the writing of these platforms.
This is done by the party and is deliberate and proves that there is, regardless of your claim, a selection process that has nothing to do with the voters. At the very least, the process self-selects out (in theory) for those people who disagree with these policies. (And is why you don’t have Marxists running alongside neo-nazis in the same party.)
- “We have emails that indicate that there was a desire to hurt the Bernie campaign. Emails between top staff at the DNC.”
Again, No. You have no aggrieved party. There are no damages claimed. You cannot charge a crime without a crime having been committed.
When Bernie Sanders lobs a lawsuit, then I will listen. But as long as he is actively supporting Hillary’s campaign, as long as he has his finger on the Democratic Party platform (remember: his platform, her candidacy. That was the deal they made.), and as long as he and his aides constantly, ceaselessly deny that this election was influenced towards HRC by the DNC while they are campaigning for her… then the election was not influenced towards HRC.
Accusing people of having preferences and expressing them is quite a weak position on which to hang a corruption charge, DA. No reasonable prosecutor would touch this one.
- “The day the Democrats override the popular vote to appoint their nominee is the day I vote for whoever is on the other ticket. But judging from all the responses on this thread, it seems like most people agree with you.”
Nobody has said they’ve done this. Well, except for ex-supporters who haven’t paid attention to anything Bernie Sanders has been doing since mid-June. They are still saying this. But reasonable people, Sanders campaign officials, anybody…? No.