The only counter-argument I can imagine is basically what Bernie Sanders himself said -- that it's no surprise. lolwut ... who cares if it's a surprise.
The administration of the Democratic party: (i) conspired to push favor in the direction of a predetermined candidate long before any public preferences were known, (ii) made some outrageous and extremely, extremely, as-extreme-as-anything-you-want-to-say-about-the-Republican-platform bigoted remarks about homosexuals, often as fucking jokes and (iii) kicks around the idea of finding an audience plant to question Sanders on whether he is an atheist to win votes.
And what's the Democrat response? Russia's trying to do it. WTF!!!??? Don't believe expressly bigoted email data showing that popular opinion is ignored, mocked, and conceived as an opportunity for engineering. No. Discount that. Becuz Russia izzz 4 Trump. Jesus.
There's nothing further to say. It's not an excuse to vote for the equally train-wreck Republican ticket, but it's an overt and unequivocal confirmation that the parties, in every pragmatic sense, are identical, and that for the overwhelming majority of Americans, apparently even marginalized Americans in certain minority groups, there is absolutely no fucking difference between the two parties, no justification for favoring one over the other, no impending immigration or terrorism or international relations crisis that's going to drop like the sword of Damocles on us if one is elected over the other.
They. are. the. same. The. exact. same. There. is. 100%. zero. debate. about. it. any. more. So. just. fucking. stop.
The content of the email leak was one of the most depressing things I've experienced in my lifetime. Followed quickly by the equally depressing rationalizations basically trying to say "that's just politics" and downplay it. Vox immediately posts an article saying "they found no smoking guns" blah blah blah more of the same shit. It's just unbelievable the degree to which we are engineered.
Sorry. Had to vent.