The combined machinations of the DNC, Superdelegates and the Hillary Clinton campaign have set back Democratic and progressive progress by 20 or more years. This article explores the damage done and who to blame.

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The combined machinations of the DNC, Superdelegates and the Hillary Clinton campaign have set back Democratic and progressive progress by 20 or more years. This article explores the damage done and who to blame.

Let's start with a screaming reality. All the polls showed that Bernie would have done far better than Hillary in the general election. Bernie Sanders would have won. He would have won big and his coat-tails would have carried Russ Feingold and probably many other senate and house candidates.

There are a number of targets for blame. But before we talk about who to blame, l let's talk about what the targets of blame should be blamed for:

1-rigging the Democratic primary or allowing it to happen-- that would be rigging by the DNC, rigging by collusion of the DNC, the Clinton Campaign and the MSM, rigging by local Democratic committee people and other leaders who obstructed fair and open primaries and problems with primary voting. Repeat studies have shown that even the vote counting was rigged for some of the primaries.

2-Loss of the Senate: A Top Down disaster-- the DNC leadership, with Obama rigged many state primary elections for senate and house Democratic candidates-- designating losers based on the criteria that they would be obsequious to the DNC.

3-Loss of the House. Same Top Down rigging problem. I believe that Bernie Sanders could have won the election big, with huge coat-tails that could have carried many house races. Millennials and independents who stayed home would have come out to vote, to engage in GOTV.

4-Loss of the Scalia replacement seat on the Supreme Court and who knows how many more.

5-Loss of voters who shifted from Democrat or left leaning independent to become Trump Supporters.

6-Corruption of the mainstream media-- allowing and encouraging supposedly impartial media people to become flaming shills.

7-Corruption of the justice system-- the DOJ and the USA's intelligence agencies.

8-rigging of the election system. The Democrats were out-rigged. They should have learned up elections over the last eight years and they didn't

Now, let's talk about who's to blame. I'm sure that the rabid Hillbots-- supporters of Hillary in the primary-- the people who were the nastiest attackers of Bernie Sanders and his supporters, will blame Bernie Sanders and his supporters, especially the tiny fraction who supported Jill Stein or who stayed home. Sorry dears, but you were either so intoxicated that you were going to elect a first female president or you just bought the propaganda that Hillary was the "most experienced presidential candidate ever" nonsense.

Either way, you ignored the reality that she is a toxically, morbidly flawed, dishonest, corrupt, historically despised candidate. You deluded yourselves to believe that because she'd been Secretary of State she had historic experience. The problem is, the majority of the people of America saw through her experience claims and believed what Bernie said, that her experience was bad experience, including her voting for the Iraq war.

So, first to blame are the Uber-Hillary supporters. They could have been awake and smart enough to, from the grass roots, bottom up, reject the DNC's massive selling of Hillary.

But next, and maybe even more, the DNC and the leadership of the Democratic party are to blame, collaborating with the mainstream media, particularly MSNBC and CNN, for rigging the primary and keeping the candidate who would have won by pulling independents-- Bernie Sanders.

Start with the DNC leadership and the vast majority of Democratic power holders-- all the Superdelegates who committed to Hillary before Bernie Sanders was even in the race. Some were bought by the Clinton foundation. Some were bought by corporations and billionaires. A small few were fools and cowards. Give Elizabeth Warren that small benefit of the doubt-- that she was a fool or coward and hadn't sold out. But be assured, she was a big part of Trump's victory. She should have supported the only progressive candidate.

There is only one way that the people who consider themselves Democrats or left of Republican can respond, and that is to excoriate, ban and purge ALL of the malignantly wrong, failed Democratic leaders. That should happen immediately at the bottom up grass roots level, with an uprising that throws out all the state and local committee people who rigged their state primaries to favor Hillary or to favor the House and Senate picks the corporate shills and power hungry fools at the top of the DNC pecking order designated.

It's good that Harry Reid and Barack are leaving. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is supposedly gone, but, I don't trust that she's really gone. Chris Van Hollen, who DWS replaced as DNC head is now a senator. He should be banned from participation in leadership. Charles Schumer, be assured, was a major influencer in helping to rig the Democratic primary. He is on track to become the senate minority leader. That should not happen. The Black Caucus PAC leaders who lied and distorted to support Hillary-- they should lose all influence and power in the actual Black Caucus. Most of the Progressive Caucus members in the House should be voted out of office, except for the few who supported Bernie.

Of course, these incompetent, politically malpracticing losers will blame the people who were too disgusted to vote for Hillary-- Berners, Millennials, people with the integrity to refuse to vote for a lesser evil, lying, corrupt candidate hated by more than any Democratic candidate in modern history.

The real blame for the #DemDisaster should be laid on the DNC and the rabid Hillary supporters who were in total denial that a profoundly flawed, lying, corrupt, hated candidate could somehow win.

Hillbots will blame Berners who voted 3rd party for her loss No! Your Awful judgment gave Trump the White House"""This was an election where people voted AGAINST a candidate. Hillary was more hated than Trump The DNC should have known. No. I'm sure they knew and went ahead anyway. They read the pulse of America so badly that they arrogantly, Top Down inflicted Hillary on the Democratic party.

Joe Scarborough says, "this morning that this is not a morning for the Republican establishment to celebrate. This is a morning that the Republican establishment has been smashed into a million pieces." If that's true then the Democratic establishment should be smashed into a billion pieces.

Bottom line--

1- DNC and media Dem leadership should be banned and purged, starting from the bottom up, or it won't happen. Begin by running out the local committee people who did all they could to prevent fair, open elections in the primaries. Don't buy their inevitable excuses, that it was the Russian hackers faults or the fault of the less than one percent of people who voted for Jill Stein. This was an election lost by the DNC.

2- MSNBC & CNN handed the election to Trump by steamrolling over Sanders, setting up Clinton for her inevitable fall. There were a few honest pundits and anchors but most were dishonest and partisan for Hillary. Don't watch those networks. Or change the channel when the worst offenders appear on the screen-- Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Steve Kornacki, Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, Wolf Blitzer, Carol Costello. These are not the friends of open, transparent democracy. Start changing the channel when they appear on the screen. (Commenters add to the list of worst anchors.) Start watching the alternative TV shows and reading news websites which never bought the DNC propaganda.

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