jimnyc
07-29-2016, 06:13 AM
They tell a different story - but I think perhaps it's because their nominee is the biggest liar EVER nominated before? Or someone nominated who the FBI just admitted lied to them, congress and the American people? And perhaps because many of the Dem supporters are upset that the primaries were rigged, and Bernie came close to winning anyway?
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Why the DNC Was So Much More of a Mess Than the RNC
As Hillary Clinton accepted her party’s nomination, she was the subject of a mock trial outside the arena. “Guilty!” that jury ruled.
PHILADELPHIA — Inside the Wells Fargo arena a little after 11 p.m., Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. Outside, her opponents’ supporters called for her arrest.
Hundreds of anti-Clinton protesters gathered as close as they could get to the arena entrance on Thursday night. As was the case for the previous three days of the convention, they chanted, waved signs, bickered amongst themselves about disruptive anarcho-syndicalist infiltrators, and plotted their exit from the Democratic party. Some, including Philadelphia native Drew Geliebter (who helped burn an American flag a few minutes after Clinton’s acceptance speech wrapped), were never going to vote for a Democrat anyway. But others were, and say Clinton and the Democratic National Committee robbed Bernie Sanders of the election.
At one point, dozens of them marched down a road parallel to the fence that enclosed the Wells Fargo Center chanting, “Hillary Clinton, you are under arrest!”
It’s above dispute: The Democratic convention drew way more rancor—way, way, way more rancor—than the Republican convention. And that points to a larger problem sneaking up on the party: the percolating tension between moderate partisans comfortable with incrementalism and fiery progressives antsy for revolution. Donald Trump’s antics and #NeverTrump’s anemic counterrevolutionary efforts have kept Republican rifts in the forefront for the last year. But the faultlines on the left sometimes look just as deep—and that was certainly the case at the DNC.
This isn’t new. The party’s progressive wing has long wrangled with its establishment leaders, and there was always going to be a cohort of voters on the left who abhorred Hillary. But at the convention, that dissent turned disruptive (and not in the Silicon Valley way), with interruptions of floor proceedings, marches around the arena, media-protesting sit-ins, and even a much-hyped fart-in (which, for the record, generated more media coverage than odor).
Outside the arena, it looked like Occupy: A row of tents took over a corner of a public park across the street from the arena, and barefoot protesters hoisted signs charging Clinton with all sorts of crimes. A gentleman sporting a tie-dyed toga and a Bernie wig held forth from his perch on a concrete barrier about the likelihood of Trump winning California (his analysis: high). And one anti-Big-Food protester brought along his alpaca. As Clinton gave her acceptance speech, Andy Argo of Kalamazoo, Mich. led protesters in a mock trial charging her with accessory to election fraud.
“Guilty!” attendees chanted.
Earlier in the evening, chants included “Fuck you, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” and “Hell no, DNC, this is not democracy.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/29/why-the-dnc-was-so-much-more-of-a-cluster-than-the-rnc.html
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Why the DNC Was So Much More of a Mess Than the RNC
As Hillary Clinton accepted her party’s nomination, she was the subject of a mock trial outside the arena. “Guilty!” that jury ruled.
PHILADELPHIA — Inside the Wells Fargo arena a little after 11 p.m., Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. Outside, her opponents’ supporters called for her arrest.
Hundreds of anti-Clinton protesters gathered as close as they could get to the arena entrance on Thursday night. As was the case for the previous three days of the convention, they chanted, waved signs, bickered amongst themselves about disruptive anarcho-syndicalist infiltrators, and plotted their exit from the Democratic party. Some, including Philadelphia native Drew Geliebter (who helped burn an American flag a few minutes after Clinton’s acceptance speech wrapped), were never going to vote for a Democrat anyway. But others were, and say Clinton and the Democratic National Committee robbed Bernie Sanders of the election.
At one point, dozens of them marched down a road parallel to the fence that enclosed the Wells Fargo Center chanting, “Hillary Clinton, you are under arrest!”
It’s above dispute: The Democratic convention drew way more rancor—way, way, way more rancor—than the Republican convention. And that points to a larger problem sneaking up on the party: the percolating tension between moderate partisans comfortable with incrementalism and fiery progressives antsy for revolution. Donald Trump’s antics and #NeverTrump’s anemic counterrevolutionary efforts have kept Republican rifts in the forefront for the last year. But the faultlines on the left sometimes look just as deep—and that was certainly the case at the DNC.
This isn’t new. The party’s progressive wing has long wrangled with its establishment leaders, and there was always going to be a cohort of voters on the left who abhorred Hillary. But at the convention, that dissent turned disruptive (and not in the Silicon Valley way), with interruptions of floor proceedings, marches around the arena, media-protesting sit-ins, and even a much-hyped fart-in (which, for the record, generated more media coverage than odor).
Outside the arena, it looked like Occupy: A row of tents took over a corner of a public park across the street from the arena, and barefoot protesters hoisted signs charging Clinton with all sorts of crimes. A gentleman sporting a tie-dyed toga and a Bernie wig held forth from his perch on a concrete barrier about the likelihood of Trump winning California (his analysis: high). And one anti-Big-Food protester brought along his alpaca. As Clinton gave her acceptance speech, Andy Argo of Kalamazoo, Mich. led protesters in a mock trial charging her with accessory to election fraud.
“Guilty!” attendees chanted.
Earlier in the evening, chants included “Fuck you, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” and “Hell no, DNC, this is not democracy.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/29/why-the-dnc-was-so-much-more-of-a-cluster-than-the-rnc.html