Northeast News
November 16, 2016

Last week Donald J. Trump pulled off what seemed like an impossible feat, defeating the Democratic heir apparent to the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The day after the election, social media played host to more drama than a Bette Davis movie marathon at the Heart Drive-In Theater. That said, the dog thinks that rage directed at Donald Trump for pulling a stunning upset is misdirected.
The real rage from Democrats, especially those who jumped on board the Bernie Sanders Express, should be targeted straight back to the Democrat National Committee: for their cheating ways and for playin’ all the Berners for chumps in order to garner their support for the corrupt, deeply flawed and un-electable Hillary.
Unknown to Sanders and his Feel the Bern faithful, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz along with a handful of Clinton faithful and an in-the-bag media created a system where Sanders, arguably the most popular grass roots politician in the United States, was doomed to failure by coming up short in primary after primary. Sanders not only had to fight the GOP but his own party in order to have his message heard. Sadly, the fix was in from the moment he stepped on his first dais. After the secret scuttling of the Sanders campaign by the DNC was outed, Wasserman-Schultz resigned in disgrace.
After that, the DNC spin machine went in to overdrive: attempting to make the jilted Berners forget how badly they got screwed over by their own party and painting Trump as the evil overlord. Anyone remember Star Wars? “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
This Dog might be 180 degrees a polar opposite of what Bernie Sanders’s politics were, but he had our respect because he was as close to an organic candidate as you could get, running one of the best grass roots campaigns in history. With a net worth that didn’t come close to touching seven figures, he made an extremely strong connection with working class Americans on a level no Washington insider could compete with.
Sanders fought the good fight and this dog believes he would have garnered the nomination had it not been fixed from the get go. It would have made for a far more interesting race, given both candidates were created by the same inaction of the elected Washington insiders who became more interested in job preservation than representing their electorate.
Rage all you want, but let’s put this in to perspective. The object of your rage needs to be directed right back at your own party and the insiders in the DNC, not only for playin’ you like a $3 fiddle but for cheating and killing the campaign of one of the last true Mr. Smith Goes to Washington candidates. It woulda been a helluva race.