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In reply to the discussion: "White People are Not as Important as Bernie Sanders Thinks" [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)about one of the caucuses. A couple of young berners drove from out of state to speak at a caucus. WTF? Who does that? So the legitimate caucus goers immediately voted that no one who wasn't a voter in that precinct could talk. Because who wants to drag that annoying shit out longer than necessary? As a survivor of MANY overly-long meetings, I can tell you how hard I laughed when that happened. HELL YES, make them shut up so we can go home and have DINNER! After they quieted the out of state visitors, one of the Clinton supporting caucus-goers said something racist, which was wrong, but then the caucus ALSO voted to make them STFU. Great!
To me, it seemed like the caucus was functioning perfectly. No rules were broken. They handled the obnoxious people who were trying to derail the meeting efficiently and shut the bigot up. Win! But to the bern-feeling DUers, it was a PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY!!!!!! Everyone must sit down and shut up when the Feelers of The Bern are speaking, even if they can't vote in that state and were not invited to the meeting I am like, NO, it is a caucus. The rules were followed. That IS Democracy in action.
See, now I am going to have to go into GDP to see the spectacle! Chair throwing? That is some next-level tantrum throwing bullshit