To the extent that this delegate process is rigged, it is clearly rigged to Bernie’s favor. So why do he and his die-hards keep disrespecting Hillary’s voting majority by claiming otherwise?
Keep in mind: this “rigged” system is the same system that nominated Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Gore, and Kerry — most of whom Bernie backed as a superdelegate himself— without uproar. The only difference is that the system can now produce winning female and nonwhite candidates due to the electorate’s increasing diversity.

Bush administration officials deleted at least 22 million emails, including the private emails they used for official business. This week’s overhyped State Department audit report revealed that both Bush administration Secretaries of State used private email — one of whom did so exclusively and deleted them all. Yet nearly all headlines on that report focused only on Hillary’s email practices.

Every minority voter in American understands intrinsically that neither Obama nor Hillary could refuse to release their tax returns without facing a constant torrent of criticism and outrage. That understanding — that solidarity — is why Hillary has the minority vote on lock. The underprivileged can hear the dog-whistle in the sudden claims of a “rigged” system, claims meant to minimize the political preferences of a coalition of women, Afro-Americans, gays, Latinos, Asian-Americans, the disabled, and brave, secure white male progressives viewed as traitors by bigoted, insecure knuckledraggers.
There is direct correlation between the unprecedented disrespect of Hillary’s vote total and the fact women and minorities fill the gap between her 13 million votes and the smaller totals of her opponents. Whenever women and minorities compete and win, especially in a zero-sum game against a person accustomed to privilege, bigots inevitably lie that the winner benefited from unfair advantages. The lies Bernie and Trump tell about Hillary’s electoral success are the same lies told for decades about minority groups’ increasing socioeconomic power.