The DNC is Defying the CDC to Hold Primaries, and Here’s Why.

It feels like we are rapidly descending in to a dystopian nightmare, and the DNC’s inaction isn’t helping.

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As the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly throughout the country and schools have now closed to over 32 million students, the CDC has officially recommended that all gatherings involving 50 people or more are postponed or canceled. Today, President Trump advised the American people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people.

So why are the democrats still holding the primaries on Tuesday, March 17th?

Joe Biden tweeted for people to go out and vote, spreading the misinformation that as long as you are symptom free it is safe. Sunday night at the debate, he spent a lengthy amount of time discussing how the Coronavirus is comparable to war, that only he could handle it, and he would bring in the military in to help.

Joe Biden has the power, and his team full well knows it, to ensure a postponement or at the very least a mail in system for the March primaries. If he asked for such measures to be taken, the DNC would undoubtedly agree. With each passing day, the disturbing reasoning behind his and the DNC’s inaction is the fact that they simply want to lock in his nomination as soon as possible.

Even after all the time I’ve spent thinking about it, it still truly hasn’t sunk in that the Democratic frontrunner and his campaign are telling Americans in the middle of a global pandemic to go to the polls tomorrow, while the DNC itself is refusing to protect the safety of the citizens of these states and the communities. At a time when Americans need universal healthcare, the lengths they are willing to go in order to prevent any possibility of that happening are stunning. They know that a mass mail in primary would be an advantage for Bernie Sanders, and they know that postponing would also allow him more time to make his case to the American people and thus an advantage to him as well.

Any results of the March 17th primaries should be considered illegitimate by the American people. The DNC and the democratic parties of the states involved will quite literally have human lives on their hands by continuing with this madness, and they absolutely know it. This is something that should enrage each and every voter, and tells us everything we need to know about how much they value their own established power over our lives and safety.

There is a very real possibility that we end up in a situation similar to Italy’s, but the Democratic party is so desperate to put what they perceive to be the final nail in the coffin of Bernie’s campaign that they are putting health, safety, and lives in jeopardy throughout the country in order to do it.

For as long as I live, I don’t envision ever forgetting how revealing on so many levels that this moment in American history was. The disgusting corruption and how little we matter to those in positions of power within the Democratic party has arguably never been on more full display. Considering this unbelievable, devastating reality, it only feels more and more each day as though we’re rapidly descending in to a dystopian nightmare.