I think most of us always knew this was going to be a LONG and difficult battle.

As much as I wanted Bernie to be the nominee and to be our next President, in some ways, maybe it's for the best, because I feel like we would have all said "Mission Accomplished" from our aircraft carriers, and stopped fighting, but winning the Presidency was never going to be the end of the fight. (Although, I DO think it would have made a YUGE difference in potentially starting to correct the country's course, don't get me wrong.)

But regardless of a Sanders win or loss, we always still had this same fight ahead of us. Until we boot all the neolibs from power, this fight isn't going to be over.

I am not crying, however, he said he "PROUDLY ENDORSED HILLARY CLINTON," so can't we be allowed to moveon and just support Jill Stein. I never believed in the platform fight. I see no evidence the platform is something that type of dem pays attention to. Furthermore I never believed she could truly be pushed to the left. She'll just use tricky language like Obummer, and back off when in office. Loyalty to people was used against liberals on Obama and I won't be Bernie's fool either. If he has some commitment from her to appoint progressives to economic and foreign policy position, maybe I would have some hope, but he hasn't mentioned any of that. He just makes some vague promise to hold them accountable. I don't like her, and would never proudly support her given how I feel. I don't believe in the big tent and think that centrists and leftie liberals can't share a party. I also don't believe people who strictly commit to the present system are revolutionary. I voted for him and would again, but I fear Hillary more than Trump and won't go there with him.

Thanks and agree with most of it. However, while I think we should fight through the convention - and beyond - I really think that continuing to think there's a chance of winning the Pres shouldn't be the motivation, as that's hardly likely.

The motivation is simple: There's nothing else to do.

And yes, that goes for folks like myself who will now support Stein. I can support both of them because neither will win, and supporting both is supporting a growing movement, not a candidate at this point.

Again, lovely post.

Today my resolve is stronger than ever. However long it takes—whether we just turned 18 or are pushing 80. We know the odds are stacked against us. But that shouldn’t stop us any more than our predecessors were stopped when the odds were stacked against them. As Frederick Douglass once famously said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ​

In the streets and in the voting booths, it is by focused and relentless struggle that we can bring about the changes our nation desperately needs in spite of the obstacles—the sexists, the racists, the homophobes, the warmongers, the plutocrats, and their marionettes in Congress. We should adopt the message of the Galaxy Quest folks: "Never give up. Never surrender."

Street politics” will determine whether some of those issues:
climate change,
systematic racism,
single payer healthcare,
defeating bad trade deals,
banning fracking,
secure living wages for all,
eliminating student debt
and corralling the 1%ers who have gifted us with the worst income and wealth inequality since J.P. Morgan was running roughshod over the 99%.

But victory can’t be won without also gaining power at the ballot box, without putting likeminded people on school boards and city councils, in state legislatures and Congress. Achieving those gains means organizing from the bottom-up, precinct by precinct, county by county, year-round, every year, over the long haul.

If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
-African Proverb-

Felt like I was worked over at a local gym with a succession of body blows. It hurt, man, it hurt. Was surreal too. Afterward I ran into a very good friend and neighbor who also canvassed for Bernie had to witness, with him pointing it out, the abomination in front of us, which was packs of teenagers and young adults congregated at the end of our street playing some lame-assed online social media "game" (Poke-fucking-mon or whatever it is). Thought it was poetic that at the heartbreaking end of one of the most incredible, brilliant and inspiring political campaigns by all manner of deceit and fraud it coincided with a clear sign to me that the we as humans are, as George Carlin put it, "circling the drain."

Same friend sent me this today, "By Endorsing Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders May Have Positioned Himself to Win The Presidency," and it cheered me by reminding us that the amount of investigation cases and corruption scandal following her at the moment resemble a klieg light attracting moths.

From the article:

Famed Wall Street whistle blower Charles Ortel has stated that the FBI requested and received vast amounts of data he has collected about the foundation. He believes his evidence proves that the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative are the biggest charity fraud in history. It’s rumoured that the FBI’s current investigation into Terry McAuliffe is tied to a larger probe of the Clinton Foundation. In fact, several of Hillary’s associates are ensnared in public corruption investigations or have been recently convicted.

One of Hillary’s Superdelegates, Corrine Brown, will soon face trial for charity fraud. Her indictment says that she enriched herself by “fraudulently soliciting and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Superdelegate, Bob Menendez was charged with 14 counts of corruption in April. Sheldon Silver resigned as a superdelegate after he was convicted of fraud, money laundering and extortion in April. Another of her superdelegates, Chaka Fattah, was recently found guilty of 22 counts of political corruption.

Like with Occupy, Bernie's campaign touched so many. That energy, though slightly dormant at the moment to the casual mainstream observer, will grow into something bigger.

My hope is the delegates will raise hell, and if necessary, walk out of the convention. Or as the author above points out, HRC becomes so unavoidably vile in her appearance of sheer, blatant corruption that cooler heads will prevail and they realize Bernie's numbers have proven he will trounce Trump (if he even makes it past the nomination, I have my doubts). But of course, this rests on the presumption that they really want the best chance to beat the Repugs. Nah, they just want their front person for the money grab they're all in and salivating on. The irony is that the greed of their money laundering will be their downfall.

I am on the same page. Replied back to the Bernie or Bust letter saying I will mail 25 letters. He did not concede. We are not done.

My heart is still in it and I have a lot of faith in Bernie Sanders. I was on his mailing list long before he started running for president. My daughter and I heard him in person in Grand Prairie. That was so frickin amazing.

Bernie or Bust, the People's Platform, Bernie's delegates voting at the convention, fighting on the convention floor for open primaries and reforming superdelegates, the speeches, the cheers from the crowd, the marches, the rallies. These things need to be louder and bigger than ever!!

It was not surprising that they made him do some stuff he didn't want to do. We expected that. That doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight harder!!

I say that instead of giving in to their game, we adapt, improvise, and overcome!!