If they can elect a felon to the white house, so could we.
Edit: Better image, thanks to @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
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First, the right is also fawning over Luigi.
More importantly, you're missing the underlying point of this meme. It's displayed in the other pieces of text. We wanted Bernie and would've been happy to make that much progress nonviolently, but the DNC did not allow that. And "oppression makes revolution inevitable" because there's no such thing as negotiating with your oppressor. Think of a hostage situation. The people who successfully negotiate away that situation are the police because they are backed with the threat of violence. Those who crave power will never give it up voluntarily.
No. Bernie didn't win. The DNC was a part of that, but he also didn't get the votes to suggest he could win, other voters didn't support him - which is how primaries work. I wish he would have won!
And to add to that, Bernie's an Independent, not a Democrat. If I ran in a republiQan primary and they did some bullshit to make it harder for me - plus the real issue that enough republiQans didn't vote for me - that's not the RNC's fault. That's hardly "I didn't win becaus the RNC didn't let me".
I just don't want "Bernie didn't win because the DNC prevented it" to become some sort of arguable fact - it is part of a larger picture, but a pretty small part.
Technically you're right that it wasn't the DNC alone. It was the democratic party as a whole and the media machine they influence. Sure the DNC gave Hillary decision making power after she paid them a bunch of money, and also gave her a special funding agreement. But the hundreds of unelected superdelegates that supported her before voting even started were probably more influenced by party elites than the DNC. And it's not like they specifically paid for the opinion pieces telling Bernie to drop out. But it's not actually illegal for a party to rig a primary so we don't need to do any real investigation into it.