The title is a question posed to me by a long time dear friend in an email. We've had extensive email and phone discussions about this elections season. Today he sent this:

4-in-10 GOP insiders want to derail Trump at the convention
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-convention-block-gop-...

Where will Berniecrats go??

My reply:

The tea baggers own the Republican Party. Derailing Trump is definitely the publicly stated goal of the party "leadership". I wish them luck. The sooner they self destruct the better. Fucking over Trump would wreck them nationally as well as in many states for a generation. They made this.

The question is where would the corporate wing go? There is little to no space between them and the Clintons. I expect that after a short grieving time most would reboot the social issue side of their grifting style and jump back onto the gravy train as a conservadem. Call it the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party. The grift is always the objective. Everything else is show.

The corporate wings joining forces is what scares the living shit out of me most. I think the Birchers, Kochs and their like, won't switch immediately. I could easily be wrong here since they've already floated the idea they prefer HRC over Trump. Come to think of it the Birchers and the Clintons aren't all that far apart except for their style of grift. I can't decide which one would be more likely to "evolve". More likely, they could just agree to disagree on certain issues until one could find the right leverage to overwhelm the other. These fuckers cooperating would be the end of the middle class.

I've beaten the horse to pulp on my views on the Berners. I think most Berniecrats, as you call them, will probably get in line. Fear of Trump is their reasoning. It is Hillary's only message. Yes, ONLY. The other stuff, you know unimportant shit like policies and guiding principals, is show. The real question is where will the progressives and newly awakened to politics independents go?

I've never been a registered Democrat or Republican or anything. I've sided with Dems because their stated goals and principals more closely matched mine. Their actual accomplishments have fallen far short of what they say they want. Many others have been abandoned like the New Deal. (Bonus question: Who has done the most damage to the New Deal?) I support a progressive, liberal if you will, agenda that favors the middle and lower classes in this country. I think there is more than a little evidence that a plurality, if not an outright majority, of people in this country do too. Those millions, young and Latino, who responded so strongly to Bernie aren't going to be around when it comes time to vote for Hillary. Most see no difference between Hillary and Trump. They will be fucked over by either one. Nothing in their lives will change for the better under either one and there is no third choice. There is only none of the above.

Worth noting, Bernie was polling well with Trump supporters. He was expected to strip away a not insignificant number of the not rabid crowd. Who do you think they will vote for now?

Jill Stein will pick up the more informed ones but not in significant numbers unless Bernie changes his mind and endorses or joins her. Unlikely. Well, until after the convention when it is too late to affect 2016 or, slightly more likely, after the election. I actually expect Bernie to continue to try to retake the Democratic Party. Hopeless in our lifetime I think.

Does that cover it?

He plans to vote for Hillary now that Bernie is almost certainly not going to be the Dem nominee. His motivation, if I understand it correctly, is that Trump will be an embarrassing disaster for the US. I respect that view. Trump will, without a doubt, be an unmitigated embarrassment and disaster for many millions of people here and around the world. We each have to make the decision of who to vote for based on our personal interests. My wife is very pro-HRC. I don't like it but I understand her point of view and respect it. (Lets not get into her not-voting-for-HRC-is-childish thing.)

My issue with voting for HRC, I won't, ever, is that it is a short term solution to a single short term problem - Donald Trump. Coronating HRC creates it's own set of potential disasters and problems for us all. It also fails to address the long term problem, 35+ years and counting, of having to vote for the lesser evil or one of two sides of the same coin. A problem is never solved by doing the exact same thing that has failed so many times before. There will be pain, there will be blood in following the path of saying, "NO MORE!" The difference? Just maybe, there will also be a chance of change too.

I respect the views of you good people. What have I missed in my brief summation of where will the Berners go?