he's a rabid anti-bernie, pro-hillary shill at WaPo. other twitter users told me that he's a self proclaimed libertarian, which I find laughable.

ln a world full of shit, sometimes it's the small things that count.

because fuck this shit.

Hanging up our Peace flag.

No Bernie, I will never vote for HRC or any other pol. I wanted a leader.

I agree with most of what all said above. But I want to retain a bit of trust & hope that he's doing this because he needs to, in order to stay in for the convention. And what happens then? I don't know. I'm hoping for a deus ex machina, I guess. A real indictment because of the "Foundation." A rebellion of delegates with voters' remorse. A more formidable RNC candidate who puts some fear into the SDs. An overwhelmingly powerful speech by Bernie at the convention that even the most koolaid-drunk Hillbots hear.

Maybe Bernie knows something. Maybe a miracle. Maybe.

Sigh.

It was Barack Obama. Many here are disappointed in Bernie for abandoning the us and his principles by endorsing HRC. Well, he had to sell his soul to the D party to create a left in this country. I guess he could have run as an Independent...how many votes do you think he would have gotten ?

The reality is, we have the formation of something politically important. It will be up to us to focus and make something out of it. Personally, I am so cynical I doubt it will happen and the revolution/movement/whatever will wind up being a foot note. But before there was Bernie, there was nada. I don't see any value in calling him a traitor unless you are buying a bottle and calling it a night...but I've already gone down that path and it ain't pretty so I'm gonna try something else.

Please enough with "The Revolution" already; there's no revolution on the horizon because there's no leader. Yes, there are many Bernie progressive groups, but they are not united and disagree on how to proceed.

Bernie projected strength, focus, and substance and ran a great campaign. He did this despite almost insurmountable obstacles. But, but, he threw it all away at the end and never explained himself. He left us in the lurch.

That brings us to leadership. A true leader never gives up, especially if they have options. Bernie's option was the Greens. Joining the Greens, if only temporarily, would have made his campaign corporeal and given us a structure to build on. He couldn't pivot to something beyond the Senate and caucusing with the Dems. He doesn't recognize their evil. He doesn't realize that Hill is a psychopath who stops at nothing to get her way. He is like the majority of Dems who will vote for Hill - blind and not realizing that the party purposely dispensed with the New Deal decades ago. It will never return.

This a tragedy of major proportions.

From his perspective, an eventual endorsement makes sense as the "pragmatic" move..and I respect it. It's certainly still the lesser of two evils in the current Democrat/Republican paradigm.
Progressive fires can be lit under Hillary's ass with the Democrats in power. With Democrats in power, there are still cracks in the system within which true progressives can slip. With Republicans in power, there is no chance at all.
By holding out this long and shaking up the traditional, rote, meaningless "concede and endorse" expectation, Bernie was able to push for greater progressive ideals in the party platform and in Hillary's policy positions. This was a good thing...which is why I always believed that all those bitching about "why won't Sanders just concede? waaa waaa waaa" all could go fuck themselves.
But now, with that strategy exhausting itself and the convention approaching, Bernie Sanders is positioning himself as an inside player...breaking down the walls inside the party to make it a better haven for real progressives to thrive, and making changes at the root.
His campaign was always a long shot and it seems as if he knew that. But he also figured out how to play political "chess" with the entire situation and WIN that game.
I love that fucking Bernie Sanders'.