This is the part which makes me saddest:

Today, I endorsed Hillary Clinton to be our next president. I know that some of you will be disappointed with that decision.

This doesn't mean that I disrespect Bernie for doing so. He clearly has his reasons for endorsing Clinton. Maintaining his power in the Senate is but one thing which he must have on his mind, and he needs that power to do anything for us.

I do not, however, believe for one minute that anything Bernie got into the Platform will in any way ever be enacted. I now consider this election a lost cause for this reason, and will vote for Stein now.

Bernie is not out of my life, however. I want to see this goal realized:

It is extremely important that we keep our movement together, that we hold public officials accountable and that we elect progressive candidates to office at the federal, state, and local level who will stand with us.

I will continue to support such efforts any way I can.

This doesn't mean that I disrespect Bernie for doing so. He clearly has his reasons for endorsing Clinton. Maintaining his power in the Senate is but one thing which he must have on his mind, and he needs that power to do anything for us.

This.
And, of course, that goes triple for those of us who live in Vermont.

I do not, however, believe for one minute that anything Bernie got into the Platform will in any way ever be enacted.

Agreed. Should $hillary get elected President, the whole platform will vanish without a trace, like smoke. We will have governance by the Evangelical Protestant Church and Goldman Sachs.

I now consider this election a lost cause for this reason, and will vote for Stein now.

Myself as well. It's now "Jill Stein because fuck this shit!".

and I'm going to do what I have to.

#NeverHillary and #NeverTrump.

... that I won't sign Bernie's petition to support the Dems/Hillary and fight Trump. I don't mean apologetically sorry, but just a kind of sadness.

I have somewhat muffled the pain of what's going on by simply not watching any of Hillary's speeches, nor did I watch the joint Bernie/Hillary appearance today. I know my triggers and I see no benefit to having them set off in the name of "news."

So I don't feel much of anything - neither anger nor tears (my tears were always for Bernie's speeches and the insights that came to me from them).

There's a lot going to happen between now and the convention and between the convention and November. All I know at this point is I'm not planning on voting for either Trump or Hillary, so I guess that leaves either Jill or a Bernie write-in.

I don't feel an ounce of regret that I contributed money to Bernie's campaign (came very close to the maximum, something I've never done before). I got my money's worth and more.

Of course this is just my individual take. I accept that feelings about this will run the gamut from rage to betrayal to loyal resistance and everything in between, including some folks deciding to vote for Hillary.

I feel pretty comfortable at this time leaving the Democratic Party.

at least he didn't tell me explicitly to support and vote for the liar. He did say we must elect a democrat. He never really said we must elect the liar by name....
So, I wonder if he gave the criminal his donor/email list. I'd better not start getting emails/mail from the psychopath begging for money...
JillOrBust...JoB

Ironically enough, it was foretold over a year ago, by more than one cynical leftist commentator, that what transpired today is what ultimately would come to pass. For instance, from 5/6/15:

Sheepdogging for Hillary and the Democrats in 2016

“The sheepdog is a card the Democratic party plays every presidential primary season when there's no White House Democrat running for re-election.”

Spoiler alert: we have seen the Bernie Sanders show before, and we know exactly how it ends. Bernie has zero likelihood of winning the Democratic nomination for president over Hillary Clinton. Bernie will lose, Hillary will win. When Bernie folds his tent in the summer of 2016, the money, the hopes and prayers, the year of activist zeal that folks put behind Bernie Sanders' either vanishes into thin air, or directly benefits the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Or this, from 10/20/15:

The Sheepdog and the She-Wolf in Vegas

The most remembered line of the debate was Bernie’s statement that “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about [Hillary Clinton’s] damn e-mails.” Here Sanders further demonstrated his sheepdog commitment to the dollar-drenched and neoliberal party of Robert Rubin, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the arch-neoliberal Barack Obama. A left candidate who was serious about defeating the Clinton machine would hardly be in the business of helping provide Hillary cover on her criminal and classically neoliberal use of a private corporate e-mail server for public sector (the State Department no less) communications.

Senator, I don't profess to know what motivated you to behave as you did, not only in endorsing Hillary Clinton, but by making it abundantly clear from the outset that in your mind the Democratic Party was the only acceptable vehicle for pursuing change in the political arena. Given that, under even the most optimistic scenario, your actual chances of capturing the party's presidential nomination were always perilously hovering between slim and none (with the latter the prohibitive odds-on favorite), as a practical matter this meant that the actors who had played such a huge role in creating the corrupt and corrosive system that you so often railed against must ultimately be depended on to lead the effort to clean up their own mess. With of course lots of outside pressure exerted by an aroused and inspired citizenry.

Senator, I hope you will not be unduly offended when I tell you I find this hope of some kind of grand neoliberal reformation laughably naive. It is akin to the frog's forlorn hope that the scorpion will somehow recognize an overriding self-interest in resisting his natural impulses, or Charlie Brown's unshakeable belief that "this time" duplicitous Lucy will finally be true to her word. If only! To paraphrase Machiavelli, revolutions are not made by cutting a deal with the King, but rather by striking the King, and killing him. Had you chosen to be true to the spirit of your professed hero, Eugene Debs, you would have followed the path you set yourself and so many of us on to its logical conclusion, and broke once and for all with the corrupt duopoly. Sadly, you did not do so, choosing instead to veer off into a policy of accommodation and appeasement.

I commend you and salute you for what you have accomplished - inspiring millions of Americans to believe that by virtue of dedication, commitment, unity of purpose and concerted action, it is possible to change our society in fundamental ways, changes that are urgently needed to set America on the path of a more equitable, secure and sustainable future. But just the same, your way forward is not my way. I will not attempt to make common cause with people I believe not only do not have my best interests at heart, but whose entire careers have been dedicated to undermining, compromising and subverting my interests in the service of those able to pay for the privilege of always being in the front of the line. This does not strike me as a way forward to a future that I personally can believe in.

Mr. Debs once famously said: While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. You ask me now to throw in my lot with a political figure who bears just about as much responsibility as any single individual in swelling the ranks of the lower classes, branding millions more with the label of criminal, and consigning an untold number of additional wretched souls to rot in [for profit] prisons. I don't think Mr. Debs would have made the choice that you did, Senator. Nor can I.

Sorry, but no. Just no.

Yours For Justice - First, Foremost, and Always,

convention hoping to get people used to the 'endorsement' and cut down on demonstrations. I can almost guarantee he's cut down on attendence.

the movement is now in disarray, no leader, to many splinter groups, etc. Its the old Devide and conquer, not much time to regroup the Green Party is about all that is left.

What would be the point if he's already conceded?
I have heard of the sheep dogging and at first thought that's what he was doing, but the way he attacked the Democratic Party and said how corrupt they are gave me hope that he was serious.
As I stated last night, he's had a good career and if he was serious about changing the direction of this country, he could join the Green Party and try to win that way.
Unless he still thinks he can accomplish more good in staying in congress.
I have never been fond of his foreign policy views. He's not as much a warmonger as Hillary, but he did vote to send Israel more bombs because they weren't done killing Palestinians.
And he's voted to continue to fund the wars and agrees with Obama's drone program.

That's just as well, I suppose. (I wonder though, if other people who donated to him over a certain number of times suddenly stopped getting the emails? HMMM...)

I am 100000% done with the democrats. I don't even care if HRC (say it out loud: "HURK!" lol) picks Elizabeth Warren as a running mate, I still won't vote for her. They've betrayed me for the last time. Hillary stole the primary and no one could convince me otherwise.

I'm going to unsubscribe from all the email lists, and block them too for good measure. Green party, here I come!

Well. So much for Bernie.

What's really deeply disappointing about all this is that I thought he was one of the only honest men in DC. After spending thirty years as an independent, always pointing out the same problems that never get fixed and daring to call out the real culprits, I thought he had integrity. And so did a lot of other people, including many independents and even on the right who did not agree with his policies but at least trusted him.

By endorsing Hillary Clinton instead of calling her out, he has finally sold his integrity. And if the claim going around that he did it because Hillary's people threatened to nix all his additions to his platform is true, then he sold his integrity for an empty, meaningless prize.

He had the greatest grassroots movement that any presidential primary candidate has ever had, and all he had to do to keep it after California was flip the table. Instead, he's decided to lay down beside it and beg for scraps in service to a narrative that Trump is so awful it's worth electing Hillary to block him. He has joined Warren, Merkley, and so many others on a growing list of progressive traitors and phonies, and become every bit the sheepdog his critics predicted he would be.

I'm not sure what I will do this November. You see, I don't actually like Jill Stein anymore; sure, many of her policy positions sound good, but her "patriarchy in a dress" feminism post-2012 and the weird way she berated Bernie as a sellout while simultaneously begging him to join her party came off as self-serving and desperate and leaves me a bit cold, and the Green Party itself is hopelessly amateurish and a bit weird. But of course writing in Bernie Sanders is no longer an option; why would I want to elect that quisling? Trump is a necessary (and therefore easy) choice if the polls are close, because Hillary CAN NOT be allowed to win, but if not...