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.
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I agree, I also think Bernie should use his political clout and popularity to help get democrats into house and senate seats.
I gotta say, having watched the process in my grandmother and my mother (and Saint Ronnie, albeit from a somewhat greater distance) Bernie sometimes sounds as if he’s slipping into early senility…
So do half the Bernie fans I meet lately, and they’re under 24.
To be fair, he knows he’s lost, he’s admitted he’s lost, he’s more or less congratulated Hillary on her victory. He’s only remaining in the race now out of respect for the DC voters. I can respect this; it’s gotta suck to be the last race of the day with nobody giving a dámņ about your results because there’s only one horse left in the race.
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He’s said “the only thing I’ll be taking to the Democratic National Convention is my platform.” He’s said he’ll work with Clinton to defeat Trump. He’s made no mention of trying to flip delegates since Tuesday’s primaries. He’s simply not dropping out until everyone’s had their chance to cast their vote. And I’m cool with that.
There are many who have become disenchanted with politics. How can we be surprised when the choice is between bad and worse? Obama aside, I have a hard time remembering when the last time was that, were I a US resident, I’d vote FOR someone, instead of AGAINST.
I do know how this feels as it has happened all too often here in Canada. Heck, the last provincial election in Ontario, I formally declined my vote because I could not, in good conscience, vote for any of the imbeciles running. Was it Twain who said “Don’t vote for them, it only encourages them”? Man knew what he spoke of.
Bernie should be allowed to fight for the Spot as long as he is willing and able. If this were you, or one of your kids, or someone else you cared about, I don’t believe you’d be telling them to tap out.
I say, let the guy stand. He’s bringing Hillary more to the Left with each day and all she’s going to be doing once-or if–Bernie steps aside, is try and abandon all that Left-leaning to break hard for the Center. Maybe she can wear that $12,500 coat again while she drones on about income inequality.
“Maybe she can wear that $12,500 coat again while she drones on about income inequality.”
The major problem in a nutshell. If politics aren’t insanely expensive, perhaps more ‘average’ Americans could afford to run and we might wind up with people who have a grasp with the fiscal reality of the people they govern. Better laws might get written that way. People such as Hillary and Trump have no conception and less interest in knowing.
If you think that Bernie is in this for the attention and the ego stroking, and that he raves and poisons people’s minds, then no, you don’t totally get it. In fact, you don’t get it at all.
Oh, right. Because a man who’s run as an independent for the previous 30 years SUDDENLY decides to run as a Democrat, but that wasn’t for the attention.
And he spent January through mid-May DENOUNCING the very existence of super-delegates but, for the last month, he’s been actively pressing for those same people to switch their support and rally behind him because only he (after having been a Democrat for all of a year) can possibly defeat Trump, but that’s nothing like ego stroking.
The fact that Bernie’s supporting Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s opponent (who seems to be a bit more RIGHT-leaning than DWS) solely because he thinks she’s “against” him or that he sought to have both Barney Frank and Dannel Malloy removed from the Democratic rules committee because they dared to write and say “mean things” about him is absolutely nothing like raves and poisons people’s minds.
Bernie is a user. He can care less about anything unless it benefits him, he makes promises he knows he can’t keep, he’ll switch a stance on a dime (See- Superdelegates)if it favors him.
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So, basically, just another politician. No different, no better, no worse.