{"id":128070,"date":"2019-09-13T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128070"},"modified":"2019-09-13T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:33:06","slug":"the-dnc-debates-are-a-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128070","title":{"rendered":"The DNC Debates are a Sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the aftermath of the third Presidential Democratic National Committee (DNC) debate, it was mind-boggling that viewers were forced to suffer through a rehash of the same, worn out regurgitations that had already been harangued previously.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There was no stunning moment where a Star stepped forward as in the two earlier debates, nor any momentous policy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>pronouncements worth pondering. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The \u2018top tier\u2019 candidates proved to be a bland assortment,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>awash in mediocrity and predictably contentious blathering.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Missing in action was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hi) who failed to meet the DNC\u2019s arbitrary polling requirements; thus successful in clearing the stage of a reputable<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>foreign policy voice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you were unfortunate enough to tune in, you may have realized that what remains of a once political powerhouse is little more than a bankrupt shell of flatulence and exploitation. What the DNC and most of its candidates have not grasped is that there is an urgency and an underlying anxiety throughout the country with little public patience for frivolous, meaningless chatter that offers no real solutions to correct the decades of war debt, mismanagement and widespread corruption.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It should be apparent to all that the DNC has not learned one iota, not one scintilla about transparency or why they lost the 2016 election.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>At that time, the DNC<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">blatantly took no pains to hide its own corruption as it \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/soapboxie.com\/us-politics\/Yes-Hillary-Did-Steal-the-Primary-and-Bernie-Would-Have-Beaten-Trump\"><span class=\"s3\">stole\u2019 the Dem nomination<\/span><\/a> from Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-Vt)<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">After the Dem convention that summer, Sanders\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">response to the fraud and sleaze was like that of any feudal vassal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He could not do enough to enable the DNC as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/amy-davidson\/bernie-sanderss-hard-fight-for-hillary-clinton\"><span class=\"s3\">campaigned his ass off<\/span><\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/09\/30\/bernie-sanders-step-up-campaign-schedule-hillary-clinton\/91342564\/\"><span class=\"s3\">behalf of Hillary<\/span><\/a> Clinton.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The DNC has not forgiven him since.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2016, Gabbard, then a rising star within the DNC and a Vice Chair, resigned her position to endorse Bernie and, as she walked out the door, cited HRC\u2019s ongoing support for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/02\/28\/dnc_vice_chair_resigns_endorses_sanders_blasts_clintons_interventionist_regime_change_policies\/\"><span class=\"s3\">interventionist, regime change policies<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Today, Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EoQ-n3J8_hw\"><span class=\"s3\">ambivalence<\/span><\/a> to speak out on behalf of Tulsi has been noted as the DNC excluded her from the third debate as she so forthrightly spoke out on his behalf in 2016.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That one resignation cost the Dem\u2019s votes on top of an already faltering campaign that remained undiagnosed until after the votes were counted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The DNC hierarchy has not forgiven Gabbard.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After devastating losses across the country that year, including the White House, both houses of Congress and a majority of Gubernatorial seats and State legislatures, it might have been strategic for the Dems to regroup and reconsider their future.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Misguided by a deeply embedded corruption that denied their own insulated version of reality, the DNC chose to pretend all was well in Camelot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By election day 2016, the Russiagate fiasco was <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/03\/25\/a-prediction-3-days-before-the-2016-election-on-how-the-democrats-would-use-russia-gate-to-try-to-depose-trump\/\"><span class=\"s3\">already in play<\/span><\/a> and rather than consider the damage their own hysterical unsubstantiated allegations would inflict on the country, the Dem game plan was a train wreck waiting to happen.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In retrospect, one can only surmise that the DNC and its minions made a dangerously reckless choice to maintain their own power and position<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>rather than exhibit any devotion to the country.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fast forward to the 2020 primary season with almost two dozen Presidential candidates as the DNC connived to steer the desired outcome by fabricating truly creative debate deceits to screw the democratic process and even some of its <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/23\/michael-bennet-blasts-dnc-for-restrictive-debate-rules\/\"><span class=\"s3\">own candidates<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It doesn\u2019t take a professional pollster to recognize that at this early stage of the campaign, those candidates with the highest name recognition are understandably leading with the highest polls; not because of any particular sterling qualities or spectacular policy pronouncements but because they are the most familiar, the more known quantity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The bias of the MSM playing favorites with establishment-oriented candidates is also an enormous factor in the race for name recognition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The reputable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article29787529.html\"><span class=\"s3\">McClatchy-Marist poll<\/span><\/a> pulled out of the DNC\u2019s 2016 Presidential debates \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><i>out of concern that public polls are being misused to decide who will be in and who will be excluded\u2019<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and that <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><i>\u201cdebate criteria assumes too much precision in polls.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>What they are saying is that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>every poll has a <\/span><span class=\"s4\">statistical margin of error which makes any poll number speculative and\/or<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>unreliable <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u2013 but that\u2019s exactly how the DNC plays the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lee Miringhoff, Polling Director for Marist Institute issued his \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Top Ten Reasons<\/span> <span class=\"s4\"><i>Why Polls should not be used to Determine Eligibility for Debates<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201d including a range of inherent glitches since each pollster will use different methodology.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For instance, are potential voters \u2018likely\u2019 or \u2018leaning\u2019 or were they polled via a cell phone, a land line or a push button phone. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Most importantly, Miringhoff questioned the <\/span><span class=\"s4\">use of a national poll to determine a candidate\u2019s eligibility instead of a statewide primary<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> poll and that the early campaign is unduly influenced by those candidates with higher name recognition as well as whether the opinion of generational voters is being considered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To be sure, the DNC knew exactly what they were doing to require only certain \u2018approved\u2019 polling data as mandatory for debate inclusion \u2013 thereby excluding a candidate like Gabbard who <\/span><span class=\"s4\">exceeded the 2% threshold in 26 national and early state polls<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> with only two of them<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>on the DNC\u2019s \u201ccertified\u201d list. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As Bernie continues to challenge Biden and Warren, he has missed the stark reality that little has changed since 2016; to wit,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>even if he goes into the 2020 convention with a significant block of pledged delegates, the smart money says that the DNC will use every trick in the book to block a first ballot Sanders nomination to prevail.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once a second ballot is called, the DNC is home free as their super delegates once again bail out the shady villains of Capitol Hill from a catastrophe of their own making as together, they unhesitatingly ram through the preferred \u2018celebrity\u2019 candidate they wanted in the first place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clearly, Gabbard who scored big in the June and July debates had become a thorn to the DNC and just as they will find a way to delete Bernie, so will they also pull whatever strings at their disposal to deny Gabbard a legitimate place on stage. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But do not count the Aloha Girl out as she has a resilience and a stubbornness to find her way into the fourth debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Renee Parsons<\/i><\/b><i> has been a member of the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. She can be found on Twitter @reneedove31<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}