Saturday, July 30, 2016
Friday, July 29, 2016
Trouble with Wikileaks emails from DNC: as far as I can tell, no "election manipulation" is actually in the emails
You know what I've seen no one do? Look through the emails and talk about any actual evidence of election manipulation. I've seen journalist use rather dicey innuendo regarding email content, but not much else.
Most of emails are just reports. What conversations I've seen are just people expressing their opinions and/or making strategies in support of those opinions and desires (like how best to get certain points across to their constituents). I've not seen anyone showing anything from the emails about rigging the primaries.
The party insiders are supposed to be neutral by their own party rules, but I don't really care about DNC or any party's rules. I'm not a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Greenie, etc. Even if I were, I still wouldn't care because I understand that people are people. We Americans all have the rights to our own opinions, and the rights to pursue our own interests. What would've suprized me? Seeing every person in the DNC expressing complete neutrality regarding who is going to represent their party in the General Election.
The DNC rules aren't laws of the land. The only person that needs to be upset, maybe, is Sanders since he was working under one set of rules, and others where not. In the end, it still just people expressing their opinions and trying to work towards goals they feel are best for their interests. None of this has anything to do with me, and none of this is in anyway a "manipulation" of elections.
If someone can dig up something that shows election rigging, then we have a story, as well as an actual crime. Maybe it is buried somewhere deep in the emails. I've not see it. I'd be interested to see if something like that pops up. The fact that no journalist have dug it up suggests that it's just not there.
At this point, after looking through the emails myself, I'm forming the opinion that anyone that uses the terms "manipulate" or "rigged" in reference to the primary elections based on these emails is being dishonest or honestly doesn't know what they are talking about (which is still a form of dishonesty).
I'm also now of the opinion that Julian Assange, who has made several incendiary statements regarding the content of these emails, is full of nonsense. What little good he did in the distant past is now been cancelled out by his modern behavior.
