Even without the conspiracies stuff I don't know if the Democrat in the last few days realize that they're not exactly being helpful to themselves. I meant the way everyone pile in on it.
I admit being an independent I don't know much about either party Caucuses, its composition or process. What I do know though, is they often are events of great fanfare and import and it's a piece of the cake every campaign vile for (well except a certain wealthy former governor). Hell, before Monday you'll see how everyone talking about this will be historic, how it gonna propel the winner to the path, how it gonna shape the person to take on Trump ...etc... even as bystander one would feel a bit excited due to the festive vibe and atmosphere.
Now, due to ... technical reason it turned out to be a dud. I'm not saying it's ok or it doesn't make Democrat lose face. But in the end, it's just bad luck + incompetent, and most important of all it's just really one state. Criticize it, but focus and move on. The last two days though I see people piled on it on a bunch of different things:
- The caucuses things is old relic anyway, it sucks and always has been.
- It's undemocratic.
- It's not representative, inclusive in term of availability, lilke the time and commitment required to attend these events.
- It's 90% white people any way, and the candidate pick by caucuses is often not reflected what the (Democrat) electorate would want in general.
- The format means people might be pressured into changing their opinion.
And all of that came from the mouth of various Democrat (not Republican), CNN was flooded with such article yesterday. So what does it look like under a neutral POV? My thought process went like this:
- That was ... informative, I didn't know half of that about the process. ---> But I recognize most of those things. Half of them are what I hear Democrat bashing Republican "weekly"!! --> So Democrat themselves telling me that they're guilty of the same they accuses Republican for, and couldn't fix it in their own primary process.
Because, if these are the inherent issues with the process, then it wouldn't matter right? For example if Monday's night went without a hitch, that wouldn't make any of these issue disappear right, like it's not gonna make it's more inclusive and such. But apparently now they are only issues because it was a mess?
Now I'm not actually saying I believe these stuffs, even if it's Democrat talking about Democrat. I think there is a wisdom of keeping your mouth shut when emotion run high. But as an independent I feel Democrat just put themselves in a lose-lose situation here. Like ... should I believe them or not, because either way they lose.
- If I believe them: then it's mean they're hypocrite. It means everyone of their candidates (save one) and pretty much everyone else have been glamouring for that little piece of glory here, despite it has ... all of these deficiencies?
- If I don't believe them: the it'll just make them sore losers. Like when you see a bunch of guys chasing and worshiping the school's idol while can't keeping their mouth shut about how wonderful she is just to get on her bed. But when none of them could get it, they turn around and say "who care, she's such an ugly ***** anyway". Yeah, WHO gonna take those guys seriously? I don't.
Like I said, I wished they stayed focus on the reason of the melt down itself instead of extrapolate it into a bunch of different things. If the issues are being raised here, they should have raised it much earlier, or at least not around a time that they can be viewed of excuses of sore loser. But then, staying focus seem to be a chronic issue for Democrat's politic. The Republican's politic may be uglier, but you gotta admit, they know how to focus fire a hell lot better.
This is not meant to be taken as a conspiracy but treat as a funny meme that I think appropriate to describe Iowa right now:
- Russian hacker - the day before: we'll try to keep expectation low...
- Russian hacker - the day after: eh look like they hacked themselves.
And I ... actually don't find it funny.
