This was written on April 27, 2023. It is as significant a problem today as it was seven months ago.
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It was a little more than three years ago that the Democratic party was desperately trying to undermine its two most popular candidates so that it could put up an establishment dweeb who would remain loyal to the party's big-money donors. To the party's chagrin, Bernie Sanders was still packing arenas and stadiums wherever he appeared, and Tulsi Gabbard tripled her support by stating the truth about some of the other candidates on the debate stage. After Bernie questioned Pete Buttigieg's claim of victory in the Iowa primary, the party knew that he was doing his own counting. The party did not have time to rig New Hampshire, which Bernie Sanders won. Joe Biden came in fifth with one-third the votes that Bernie got, but who somehow got two-thirds the number of delegates that Bernie got.
The party then denied Tulsi Gabbard a spot on the debate stage claiming that she failed to qualify. However, it allowed a former-Republican mayor of New York to buy his way onto the stage. While mayor of New York, Bloomberg (you may have heard of his news network) was infamous for his "stop and frisk" policy that courts struck down as unconstitutional. Clearly, the party was less concerned about qualifying for the debate, and more about finding some way to stop the growing progressive wing of the party.
