As usual, a big fat Lie. Despite all the problems at the DNC, No one has said the primaries were rigged. https://t.co/WFYTzWdtL2 — Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) November 3, 2017

You can relax.

The Democratic primaries were not rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Every single candidate for DNC Chair testified to their fairness.



In a recent forum of the seven Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair candidates, all of them, including Sen. Bernie Sanders backed candidate Rep. Keith Ellison, refused to acknowledge the Democratic primaries were rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. “There was so little dissent among the seven participants that at one point, when asked whether they thought the DNC tipped the scale for a candidate [Hillary Clinton] in the 2016 primary—a criticism lodged frequently and vociferously by Sanders’ supporters—none of the participants raised their hands,” reported Real Clear Politics.

Boy, that's a relief.

I was worried for a moment.

A lot of people, such as Elizabeth Warren, have used the term "rigged" in recent days.

But "rigged" is just an example of a much more powerful word: Corruption.



Saikat Chakrabarti, who was director of organizing strategy for the Sanders campaign and now runs a group aiming to change the Democratic Party, said he wasn't surprised to hear the admission from Brazile.

"We all knew that the primary was rigged," Chakrabarti said on behalf of Justice Democrats, a group he founded. "But the corruption that plagues the Democratic Party is bigger than one primary—it's become a rot set at the very root of a party [that] claims to be for working people."

Chakrabarti added that the Democratic Party is currently "devoid of message, devoid of money, and devoid of a winning strategy."

"The people want a party that works for the people and wins," he said. "We are sick and tired of wasting money on helping a party that wastes it through incompetence and corrupt negligence."

Justice Democrats says it has seen an uptick in donations—$2,500 an hour—since Brazile's admission broke on Thursday morning. The group currently has a slate of candidates running for office in 2018, many of them challenging Democratic incumbents.

It's mind-boggling to think that the Democratic Party could be more corrupt than the already extremely corrupt Republican Party, but that appears to be the case.

Just look at the response by establishment Democrats.



During a segment on CNN, Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator, shot down Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s claim that the party and its members needed to stop “re-litigating” and move on from Clinton and Sanders’s tussle for power.

The Democrats are blowing it.

The Brazile book opens a window of opportunity to take the Democrat's greatest weakness head-on. The Clinton's corrupt, neoliberal stranglehold on the Democratic Party has finally been weakened.

However, corruption never willingly concedes power.

Anyone that voted for Trump will recall four things that he said:

The stupid border wall that already exists (and was mostly built under President Clinton).

His opposition to free trade agreements (while Obama was pushing the unpopular TPP).

"Corrupt Hillary" (Now we can add rigging the primary to Clinton Foundation corruption)

And "Draining the swamp"

Trump never intended to drain the swamp, but he was the only politician talking about taking on government corruption, and that resonated with the people.

It didn't take a genius to figure this out. Just someone who could read poll numbers.



As in previous years, corruption of government officials was top by a significant margin in 2017 with 74.5 percent of U.S. adults saying it makes them either "afraid" or "very afraid".



It was the same last year.



And the year before that.



And the year before that.



Gosh. You don't suppose the public is trying to tell us something, do you?

The Democrats could address this problem now in the strongest terms, something the public wants.

Or they can continue to pretend it doesn't exist, and get their asses kicked again.

Which do you think will happen?