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LiberalFighter

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Thu Jun 9, 2016, 09:46 AM Jun 2016

The Primary Wasn’t ‘Rigged’ Against Bernie Sanders & Here are the Numbers to Prove It [View all]

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I have never been anything remotely close to a conspiracy theorist. One thing that the Internet and social media have done very well is make conspiracy theories part of mainstream political discussions, but I’ve found the people who buy into them usually fall into one of three categories:

People who don’t like what reality is telling them, so they try to concoct some sort of “reasoning” behind why reality isn’t lining up with what they want to be real. (This can also be categorized as a form of cognitive dissonance.)

People who are losing and/or lost something and they’re now searching for any reason to delegitimize the winner and find an excuse for why they lost.

Emotionally irrational people/mentally unhinged.

This race has been fairly easy to predict based on two factors:
Caucus vs. Primary
White vs. Minority Population of the State
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