Sanders wins Iowa caucus; Buttigieg given more delegates

Bernie Sanders has handily won Iowa in both the first and final rounds of caucusing - but Democratic Party bosses have opted to give Pete Buttigieg more delegates anyway.

Why are party panjandrums running roughshod over the Gray v. Sanders ruling? The answer is easy. The Democratic Leadership Council - the Republican wing of the Democratic Party - is trying to throw the November election by preventing the party's most electable candidate from being nominated. That way, the Democrats are more likely to lose to a disgraced Donald Trump, and the DLC can use that as an excuse to hand-pick a candidate in 2024 who is to the right of any of the party's major 2020 contenders. It's a vicious cycle.

The DLC has a victim fantasy that says that when the Democrats lose, it was because they were too far left. But the fact is that the Democrats do better when they have more progressive candidates.

Sanders has the best policies among the Democratic field, and is most electable. Yes, we'd all much rather have Buttigieg in the White House than Trump. Buttigieg would also be better than Michael Bloomberg, the joke of a candidate who the DLC really wants. Still, Sanders would be best by far, and Trump is unfit for the presidency. Everyone we know agrees with us on these things. But after Bill Clinton enacted 30 years of right-wing dream bills, the DLC doesn't have very far to fall.

Much has been made about the delay in releasing the results of the Iowa caucus, but the far more serious hold-up is the delay in America getting universal public healthcare. It's been at least 50 years since it was first proposed.

In the meantime, Bloomberg didn't win a single delegate - after getting only 0.12% of the Iowa vote. But you know it's coming, because party bosses are actively working for his campaign - which is particularly absurd because Bloomberg is a Republican.

Incidentally, I wrote most of the above before it was revealed that delegates for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were wrongly awarded to other candidates, and before it was discovered that 4chan encouraged Trump cultists to jam the phone line for reporting precinct results.