Donald Trump. (photo: Getty)
19 October 16
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is no doubt that our election system is rigged. If you’re not running
as a Democrat or Republican, the system is stacked against you. You’re
right, Donald, the media is part of our rigged elections. They are
giving you and Hillary Clinton all the coverage and just about ignoring
every other candidate for president. So Donald, you should stop whining.
You blew it even with an electoral system set up to give you an
advantage.
Donald, it wasn’t the media or the rigged system we
have in the United States that offended a majority of American voters.
The system didn’t call Mexicans rapists. The system didn’t say a judge
couldn’t be impartial because he was a Latino. The system didn’t say it
just starts kissing women because they let the rich do it. The system
didn’t say it could just grab a woman’s genitals. The system didn’t say
John McCain was not a hero because he was captured and was a prisoner of
war. The system didn’t offend Gold Star Mothers.
Donald, Donald, Donald…. You have the nomination of
the Republican Party. Your political convention was covered gavel to
gavel by the media. Hundreds of reporters were denied access to your
nomination because of the huge demand. There was no demand for
credentials at the Green Party or Libertarian conventions.
Donald, you were guaranteed a spot in our nation’s
nationally televised debates. You didn’t need to get to 15% in the
polls; the Republican nomination guarantees 30% for you. Most political
experts would say it guarantees 40% for you, but I believe that number
is dropping.
Donald, while you have a guaranteed spot on the ballot
in all 50 states, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson had to waste
organizational resources in most states to just qualify to get on the
ballot. You have run a campaign that has relied on free media and the
spin from your rallies. I wonder how many state ballots you could have
qualified for if you had had to rely on your campaign organization to
get the signatures needed in each state.
One has to wonder how far you could have gotten if
you’d run as a third party candidate. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC wouldn’t have
had all their cameras pointed at an empty podium when you told the
American people you did us a great service when you forced President
Obama to show us his birth certificate.
Okay, so the Republican Party machine is not 100%
behind you anymore. Whose fault is that? Candidates you called “lying
Ted” and “little Marco” ended up endorsing you.
Even the guy you said
wasn’t a hero because he got caught endorsed you. You blew it. They hate
Hillary Clinton and to keep her from becoming president they were
willing to overlook everything you did. You couldn’t hold on for a few
months and hope that more voters would vote against Hillary Clinton than
against you. That is what this election has become, a race to the
bottom.
We have a two party system that is rigged in favor of
the Democrats and Republicans. We do need political reform in this
country. That reform needs to level the playing field for candidates
that are not Republican or Democrat. We don’t need to change the system
to make it fairer for a billionaire who can self-fund and win the
Republican party nomination. So once again Donald, you’re right, the
system is rigged. But Donald, it’s rigged in your favor, and you still
blew it. Now if you really want to un-rig the system in the future,
encourage your supporters to support reforming the electoral system for
future elections.
Scott Galindez attended Syracuse University, where
he first became politically active. The writings of El Salvador's slain
archbishop Oscar Romero and the on-campus South Africa divestment
movement converted him from a Reagan supporter to an activist for Peace
and Justice. Over the years he has been influenced by the likes of
Philip Berrigan, William Thomas, Mitch Snyder, Don White, Lisa Fithian,
and Paul Wellstone. Scott met Marc Ash while organizing counterinaugural
events after George W. Bush's first stolen election. Scott will be
spending a year covering the presidential election from Iowa.
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