DNC Panel rule: If you want to run be a registered Democrat!

[DrScholl]

I can't really see how it is unfair that a party makes a rule like this. Political parties are private and can set whatever rules they like.

[DrScholl]

I can't really see how it is unfair that a party makes a rule like this. Political parties are private and can set whatever rules they like.

It's a symbolic attempt to undermine Bernie Sanders. If you don't want him president, beat him in the primary and not try to pull shady sh**t like this.

He was defeated in a primary once, but people insist that he was cheated so it's not as if defeated him would stop his supporters from claiming he was somehow treated unfairly.

[DrScholl]

So what's the point of symbolic bullsh**t like this? to drive the far left away from the Democratic Party? to decrease the confidence in the Democratic party institutions?  It's not like it's gonna convince Bernie Sanders to all of a sudden run or not run for president.

The far left hardly supports the Democratic Party. The bulk of Sanders supporters in 2016 probably wouldn't even qualify as far left. With that said, the man is 80 so the chances of him being President are slim to none. The public is not going to support such an old person in the presidential primary or the election.

[DrScholl]

No Democrat is going to win the presidency without winning the votes of minorities by large margins. Without minorities Democrats wouldn't even have a chance at winning several swing states (if you remove large diverse cities from purple states they will turn red).