23rd March 2017, 1:49 PM
If that information is true, then I can't really consider it a bad thing in and of itself. It's when the leaked information isn't honest that there's a problem, how's that?
Also, let's treat the two cases as distinct events. In every way, I agree with you that everything about Trump is worse, but in terms of what happened with the democratic convention, that doesn't matter. It gets judged on it's own merits, and saying that party leaders should be free to collude against an "outsider" (who, I should mention, was approved as a viable candidate BY the party) makes me less than enthusiastic about the party. I don't approve of people picking their friends over a stranger when the rest of the nation is affected by it, and make no mistake, it was. Trump is president as a result of their nonsense.
No, I'm not saying they should be forced to put every single candidate on their ticket. I'm saying that if they decided to allow someone into the party as an option, they can't show favoritism later on. This isn't a matter of law so much as ethics. To us outsiders, it doesn't sit well and makes us less likely to vote for the party. You need the outsiders.
Also, let's treat the two cases as distinct events. In every way, I agree with you that everything about Trump is worse, but in terms of what happened with the democratic convention, that doesn't matter. It gets judged on it's own merits, and saying that party leaders should be free to collude against an "outsider" (who, I should mention, was approved as a viable candidate BY the party) makes me less than enthusiastic about the party. I don't approve of people picking their friends over a stranger when the rest of the nation is affected by it, and make no mistake, it was. Trump is president as a result of their nonsense.
No, I'm not saying they should be forced to put every single candidate on their ticket. I'm saying that if they decided to allow someone into the party as an option, they can't show favoritism later on. This isn't a matter of law so much as ethics. To us outsiders, it doesn't sit well and makes us less likely to vote for the party. You need the outsiders.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)