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===2020 Democrat primaries===
===2020 Democrat primaries===
:{{See also|2020 Democrat primaries|2020 Democratic party issues}}
:{{See also|2020 Democrat primaries|2020 Democratic party issues}}
====Iowa Democrat caucus====
====Iowa Democrat caucus====
:{{Main article|2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses}}
:{{Main article|2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses}}
====Michigan Democrat primary====
====Michigan Democrat primary====
Once again, long lines appeared at certain select precincts where many frustrated voters gave up and returned home. Sanders accused the Democrat party of voter suppression.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-calls-long-lines-michigan-polling-stations-outrage-suggests-dems-are-engaging-1491592</ref> As a committed [[idealist]], which anyone who knows the man or followed his career since he entered politics in 1981, these events explain clearly why Sanders never joined the Democratic party - because the Democratic party is not democratic. Democratic party insiders and office holders do not hold to the fundamental belief in one man, one vote. This was true when the Democratic party's forebearers inserted the 3/5 rule into the U.S. Constitution; it was true in the decade-long court battles ending with the [[Dred Scott]] decision, and after the [[Civil War]] it was the basis for, first lynching white [[carpetbagger|carpetbagging]] Republicans, then secondly turning on recently freed [[Blacks]] and imposing a century-long era of [[segregation]] and [[Jim Crow]]. Winning, and holding power at all costs are the core principles of Democratic party leadership since its founding, and those core beliefs have repeatedly compromised any notion of [[freedom]], [[equality]], or human rights to attain their objectives. Few contemporary, ordinary Democratic party voters understand these basic facts of the history of the Democratic party as well as Bernie Sanders does. By running from outside the party, Bernie Sanders attempted to reform it. Sanders is the living embodiment of the 38% of Democratic party voters, who identify as socially conscious [[liberal]]s or [[progressive]]s, whose valuers and beliefs may be high minded and noble, but are systematically mocked behind their backs as dupes and stooges by party insiders. In Sanders' case, Sanders has simply been honest with himself by ''not'' wearing the party label. Very few of his staff, supporters, or followers can make the same claim, or excuse.
Once again, long lines appeared at certain select precincts where many frustrated voters gave up and returned home. Sanders accused the Democrat party of voter suppression.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-calls-long-lines-michigan-polling-stations-outrage-suggests-dems-are-engaging-1491592</ref> As a committed [[idealist]], which anyone who knows the man or followed his career since he entered politics in 1981, these events explain clearly why Sanders never joined the Democratic party - because the Democratic party is not democratic. Democratic party insiders and office holders do not hold to the fundamental belief in one man, one vote. This was true when the Democratic party's forebearers inserted the 3/5 rule into the U.S. Constitution; it was true in the decade-long court battles ending with the [[Dred Scott]] decision, and after the [[Civil War]] it was the basis for, first lynching white [[carpetbagger|carpetbagging]] Republicans, then secondly turning on recently freed [[Blacks]] and imposing a century-long era of [[segregation]] and [[Jim Crow]]. Winning, and holding power at all costs are the core principles of Democratic party leadership since its founding, and those core beliefs have repeatedly compromised any notion of [[freedom]], [[equality]], or human rights to attain their objectives. Few contemporary, ordinary Democratic party voters understand these basic facts of the history of the Democratic party as well as Bernie Sanders does. By running from outside the party, Bernie Sanders attempted to reform it. Sanders is the living embodiment of the 38% of Democratic party voters, who identify as socially conscious [[liberal]]s or [[progressive]]s, whose valuers and beliefs may be high minded and noble, but are systematically mocked behind their backs as dupes and stooges by party insiders. In Sanders' case, Sanders has simply been honest with himself by ''not'' wearing the party label. Very few of his staff, supporters, or followers can make the same claim, or excuse.
====Michael Bloomberg====
:{{See also|2020 Michael Bloomberg presidential campaign}}
In an article published in ''Rolling Stone'', entitled, ''Enter Mike Bloomberg, Exit Black Voters'', author Jamil Smith observed that Stop and Frisk
{{quotebox|"increased exponentially under [[Michael Bloomberg|[Democrat presidential candidate Mike] Bloomberg]], going from 97,000 in 2002 to more than 500,000 in 2006 and 700,000 in 2011. And the federal judge who declared stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in 2013 found nearly 90 percent of the people stopped hadn’t done anything illegal....NYPD officers disproportionately stopped black and Latino New Yorkers — 83 percent of the stops from 2004 to 2012, per ProPublica — despite their comprising about only half of the city’s population. ....I wouldn’t put it past the [[Wall Street]] [[oligarch]]s to be counting upon this, a forced compromise that will eject a charlatan wrecking their profits with trade wars and install someone who will be more friendly to them — but who will largely leave the most vital Democratic constituencies in the cold, possibly with their hands up and getting searched.
This all may be a moot point. Democrats will only win the White House, or the Senate, when they can properly protect voters of color from suppression and give those voters reasons to choose them. That seems like too tall a task for a party hanging its hopes on the likes of Bloomberg. If defeating Trump really is his goal, then his cause is likely lost."<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/mike-bloomberg-democratic-primary-black-voters-911665/</ref>}}
====California====
[[California]]'s Democrat governor [[Gavin Newsom]] and its state legislature illegally enacted voter suppression legislation aimed at denying [[citizen]]s the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. The legislation unconstitutionally demanded President Trump release private information, defined by law, to the State of California. The [[authoritarian]] legislation violates the basic civil, constitutional, and [[human rights]] of 4.5 million opposition party voters who wish to vote for the nominee of their party and denies them participation in the political process.<ref>http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/newsom-i-will-not-allow-voters-in-california-vote-for-president-trump/</ref>
==See also==
==See also==