Day: June 9, 2016

I think it’s time that I addressed you as well. I need to make something clear:

I don’t give a dámņ why you’re not voting for Hillary.

So on this site, on Twitter, on Facebook: You can stop trying to explain it. It’s of no relevance to me. Don’t give me samples from the quarter century’s worth of dirt that the GOP has thrown at her. Don’t howl at me about money she makes from speeches (which she largely gives to charity). Don’t whine at me about how Bernie was screwed out of this, that and the other thing, something that I don’t recall Hillary fans declaring whenever Bernie won something.

Your explanations don’t matter. Your great rebellion doesn’t matter. Senate experience, Judaism and Socialism don’t matter. All that matters is this one simple truth:

Donald Trump must not be elected. Must not.

The simple, irrefutable fact is that Trump’s success is based upon the worst that this country has to offer. He appeals to racists, sexists, misogynists, and fascists. When someone is running for President and both North Korea and Russia endorse him, that alone should make you realize how utterly screwed up he is. Donald Trump may well be the least qualified person to be a major party nominee in the history of this country.

He must be stopped.

If you are not voting for Hillary, you are endorsing Donald Trump. It is just that simple. If you write in Bernie, that’s a vote for Trump. If you sit on your ášš at home, that is a vote for Trump.

If you sit there shrouded in obliviousness, unaware of just how much damage Donald Trump can do on a global scale, then you are quite simply an idiot. And yes, I know that Bernie supporters shriek and piss and moan when they’re insulted. That’s fair; on the other hand, calling you idiots isn’t an insult. It’s simply truth.

There’s a very old saying: you are either part of the solution or part of the problem. If you refuse to vote for Hillary, if you endorse Donald Trump, you are part of the problem, and I have zero interest in hearing you explain why.

PAD

Updated 9:30 PM: Read this. It’s what I said but said much better.

Dear Senator Sanders:

You’ve lost, okay? By every measure, including the popular vote, you have lost. Clinton got more votes than you did, period, end of story. Your determination to rest your hopes on turning around the Super-delegates makes no sense, because you would be asking them to vote against the wishes of the people…a tactic that, if Clinton were to use it, you would loudly and rightfully deride.

This is no longer an instance of a presidential candidate demanding justice. The last one who did that was Al Gore and that didn’t exactly turn out well. You remember Al Gore, right? The candidate whom many voters were disenchanted with, just as they’re disenchanted with Hillary. So they voted for Ralph Nader or just stayed home (much like your followers are declaring they’ll write in for you or just stay home.) As a result we got George W. Bush, who was demonstrably the worst president in American history. But you know who would be worse? Donald Trump. Far worse. Like, Moving To Canada Wouldn’t be Far Enough worse.

The simple truth is that you have the ability to stop that from occuring. You can rally your voters; they will still listen to you. You can transform them into a Stop Trump At All Costs corp of warriors who can help prevent that from happening. You said it yourself: Hillary Clinton on her worst day is better than Trump on his best day.

Or you can continue to do what you’re doing: Raving against the establishment, declaring you’re going to fight through to the convention, poison your followers against Hillary, and risk giving the White House to a racist maniac that the GOP refuses to stand against.

At some point, this stopped being about becoming President and became more about the attention. You are receiving more focus at this point in your life than you have in the preceding seven decades. Attention is addictive. It’s ego-swelling. You don’t want to be the also ran because the also ran doesn’t get the same love and stoking as the leader. I totally get it.

But now it’s time to grow beyond such needs and think of the future of this country that you will not lead. Okay? You need to come to grips with that: you are not going to lead this country. You are not going to be the nominee. What you need to do now is make sure that Trump is stopped.

Please. We need you to set your ego aside and step up.

PAD