Hillary and the 2016 primary will haunt the DNC long after she is gone. Her talent for attracting weasels better than a hole in a chicken coop is at the core of most mistrust of the current primary and well deserved. Anyone with connections to her campaign should be closely scrutinized, and the app has the fingerprints of several players in her ’16 effort to manipulate the election process all over it.

The icing on the cake is the large investment in the app made by Pete’s campaign. $42k may be small potatoes among the donors he curries favor from, but why would a political campaign, a temporary entity by design, be investing for profits at all? The app was destined to be easily available to almost anyone associated with the process, so this obvious attempt to gain access ahead of its deployment is highly suspect.

Conspiracies are difficult to maintain because they are increasingly subject to exposure as more participants are required, but the DNC and establishment Democrats aren’t even attempting to hide their efforts any longer. I’ll believe in ineptitude as causation when one of the many SNAFU’s inevitable in Bernie’s path to the nomination actually favors him, as simple logic would suggest if this were all random coincidence. I am far from alone in my mistrust of DNC motives and most of those who share that mistrust are not as likely to go away quietly in defeat at the convention if they feel Bernie has been screwed over again. It could easily get ugly.