Weekend Review: A country of criminals

"...there’s classified, and then there’s classified."--President Barack Obama

That was the president, over the weekend, defending Hillary Clinton's neglectful email practices. Unfortunately, he goes on to draw an imaginary line in classified information, which the law doesn't recognize.

So when these products of our two-party system break the law with impunity, we shouldn't be surprised when they rig their own party's election rules to ignore the people's will.

Evidence A: The Democratic Party's Wyoming caucus, where Bernie Sanders won, but Hillary Clinton gets more delegates. He beat her by 12%, 56-44%, yet they split the delegates 7-7. Then, she already has the state's "superdelegates" (delegates who can vote any way they like, especially when they like the Democratic Party's establishment candidate), which gives her 11 delegates to Bernie's 7, effectively nullifying a big win for him.

Evidence B: The Republicans aren't any better, as they fight to elect "anyone but Donald Trump". What happened is Colorado was obscene (from CNN):

Ted Cruz on Saturday clinched the support of every pledged delegate in Colorado, capturing all of the final 13 delegates who will go to the national convention in July and demonstrating his organizational strength in the all-important delegate race. 

Even though voters didn't head to the polls Saturday, Cruz's strength here could help deny Donald Trump the 1,237 delegates that he needs to clinch the nomination.

The story goes on to mention several voting aberrations. Note that Colorado is not a "winner-takes-all" state, so for Cruz to get all the delegates there is a coup for him.

While the CNN story blames Trump's loss on voting ballot mistakes by Trump's campaign, what about this story, from NBC News:

Despite Donald Trump winning Virginia on Super Tuesday, two of three delegates elected in the first district convention here are supporters of rival Ted Cruz — which could matter if a second ballot were to take place at the national convention. 

In the 9th congressional district, Donald Trump took over 47 percent of the votes on Super Tuesday. In Virginia's primary for this district, Ted Cruz won only about 19 percent of the votes. 

GOP delegates from Virginia are required to vote as allocated by voters in the primary in the first ballot at the national convention, but are able to vote for whoever they choose in successive ballots.

 What the Republicans are doing is setting up Trump for failure. He most likely won't have enough votes to win on the first ballot, where delegates MUST vote for their committed candidate. So they put in enough delegates to support Cruz on the second ballot.

Or is it even Cruz? As the New York Times, reports, Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan seems to be running a "parallel" campaign. Although he claims to not be interested in running for president, there's an awful lot of rumors of him doing exactly that, trying to position himself to sweep in and save the party at the convention.

Whatever the true case is, the Republicans and Democrats need to realize how this looks. For decades, they have told us how a third party vote is wasted, yet here they are openly ignoring the will of the people in their own nomination process. I would recommend voting for a third party, but there is no telling how they have the election process rigged.

The only advice I can give is this: Vote early and vote often.