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In reply to the discussion: Most voters stayed home for stunning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win [View all]R B Garr
(17,082 posts)enough not to take your post seriously. Welcome to DU Your comments sound very familiar, but unfortunately they are not even close to the reality that is happening. You are the one trying to push having it both ways.
You are pretending that Cortez is being victimized and you also are pretending that we haven't seen this whole entire scenario play out with Sanders switch from Independent to Democrat back to Independent again. That is really the gist of the discussion. The sheer hypocrisy of being told that Independents are really Democrats until an actual Democrat is on the ballot as an Independent in a twist of circumstances that are beyond his control is pure hypocrisy exposed. That is what is being discussed here in all manner of ways, including your ideations that Crowley should just disappear himself from the ballot in ways that the law in his state doesn't allow.
Welcome to DU, but your comment here truly makes me chuckle, I'm sorry, but I can't help it...
"I could support that more if it was based on principled convictions, and conducted in an honest and truthful manner. It's not hard to spot the same canned answer(s) reworded that are more mind-numbing platitudes, hollow talking points, or simplistic phraseology that sounds sweet, but actually devoid of any real substance. It's the junk food equivalent of herd mentality group-think."
Apologies since you are new here again, but I do find the above to be a kind of retro comment about the entire efforts of the Sanders' campaign to accept that an Independent is really a Democrat, but now we are to throw all that out the window in this twist of fate.