The 2016 primary follies reached a new low when a well-known blogger made an unsupported statement suggesting the Democratic Party establishment was contemplating suicide by Plan B. This statement can only damage whichever candidate wins the nomination, because it implicitly declares that the Democratic Party establishment, including nearly all of the superdelegates, are a bunch of undemocratic idiots. The idiocy would lie in thinking that the Democratic Party could ever get away with nominating anyone other than one of the two candidates who have run.
Even suggesting that our beloved Party leaders could be so obviously stupid, evil and undemocratic hurts us with potential Independent voters in November. NOT HELPFUL. It is not a claim that should ever be offered with no corroborative evidence in any case, since it implies both misfeasance and malfeasance by Democrats. If (for some compelling reason of his own) a well-known blogger feels he needs to reveal such a thing because it is true, and to hell with how it damns our November chances, he certainly must reveal the source of such a negative thing, for his own credibility's sake.
It is especially disturbing that the blogger made this brand-damaging comment on a blog where the owner had explicitly banned such things post 3/15. While I accept that he didn't consciously set out to defy this edict, writing far down in a comment thread of his own latest other-campaign-supporters-are.. post as he did, the fact that 67 people recced the evidence-free accusatory comment should earn him a timeout and them the same thing.
An apology post, explaining he didn't really mean it and has no proof they would do (or even think of) such a thing, would be a nice gesture on the well-known blogger's part, pre-timeout. Such a gesture would be HELPFUL in retaining the Independent lurkers at that site. If (for whatever reason) you actually believe our elected Democrats capable of such an infama, reach out to the ones you helped elect, and give them what for.
Cross-posted from caucus99percent
