Some of us never supported Sanders so there is no reason for any stage of grief regarding his capitulation to the Democratic party. Some of us are completely outside these emotional feelings about Sanders.

Have you read the Rolling Stone interview with Jane posted in a different essay? That helped me.

I have taken those thoughts you spoke about and for me, have tanslated them into this vision/timeline. Like the frogger analogy in a comment a couple of days ago . . . we keep moving forward as we jump to a different log. Bernie and Jane are still with us, but now in a supporting role. Like I said in another comment . . . Bernie was a John the Baptist figure, who went around giving rallies preparing for the next phase. He has passed the torch but is still part of the race.

For me the next step is two-fold:

1. Bernie style rally promotions and online resources for a Jill Stein/Nina Tuner ticket. At the beginning of the primary I thought, "I really wanted it to be a woman this time, but Mrs. Clinton just doesn't have the policies or the record we need." I think Jill/Nina is the ticket our country needs and the ticket that can win.
2. We need to take serious down ticket action this next month. In Texas, write-in candidates register in August. We need to fill up the ballot and make clear recommendations for every down ticket office. In Texas, that means I will create a "Does this candidate follow Jesus" score. Note: calling yourself a christian doesn't mean you follow Jesus. Example: Ted Cruz would score very low!

How many times does it have to be said. This is about all of us trying to get our Country back because many here feel, that being the most aware of the corruption, we have no option but to fight the ptb with a continuing movement. This didn't stop after the occupy protests wound down and this didn't stop with Obama's 2008 election and our subsequent disappointment. You sound as if you want it to stop. It ain't stopping no matter what the Clintons try to throw in our way. We got to work on getting good people in Congress and the State Houses so that we can have some control over Trump or Clinton. I'm still waiting to see if Jill can get in the debates and do us all a service with her truth.

Sure, a Bernie win would've been awesome. But it also would've meant that I was probably wrong about some of my darker corruption concerns. Turns out I wasn't wrong and I'm not particularly surprised by this outcome.

I'm not particularly depressed about it either. In fact, I'm pretty enthusiastic. The fact that we almost did it it is awesome enough but when you look at what that implies it's even better. It means an awful lot of people have woken up to the same reality I see and you see and most of the rest of us here on C99 see. To me it means that the revolution continues to gain steam and I always saw it as a long-term process. It didn't start with Bernie and it was never going to end with Bernie even if he won the general.

What I am right now is waiting to see how it'll all coalesce so that we can get better organized, get in better communication, and start winning... preferably at every level from dog catcher on up.

try to argue/badger/bully/guilt us into supporting Her Heinous.

Some people might be won over, later on - say, September or October. Some never will (I sure as fuck won't!).

Put that in your pipes and smoke it, Kosturds!

is for those who are likely doomed by inaction on climate change.
Those who will die under the guise of american exceptionalism.
Those who are dying in an unjust prison system.
Need I go on about my grieving about how our current political system kills people?
I will never grieve for an unjust system. I will wish for it's demise.

I am disappointed that Bernie couldn't pull it off, but at least since Iowa we knew the cards were being dealt from the bottom of the deck. I am sad at the way the Democrats make him act like Hillary's organ grinder monkey, which I see as punishment for daring to oppose Her Heinous. I worry for Bernie once he returns to the Senate, for the possibilities of the Democratic leadership to make his political life a living hell are vast.

But all along, I had backup plans. One was to write Bernie in if he indicated he was willing to go that way. Jill Stein and the Greens were the next line in my political defense-in-depth. And should all else fail, and Stein goes down, on CA ballots I can still write in None Of The Above for President and just vote for the lower offices.

I am already prepared for Obama to sell us out with TPP during the lame duck session. That betrayal alone makes all else moot. We may discover that holding elections -even for local offices- causes a loss of profit for some foreign firm, prompting the WTO to order them declared illegal.

Yes, this is a bit extreme. But can we really deny with any certainty that this may prove to be the last election any of us get to participate in? Might as well shoot up all the ammo we have while we still can.

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What happened in the primaries was a political assassination by the DNC of a man, who was a political revolutionary, a serious, elderly, decent, consistent man, who worked his heart out at age 74. He deserved all respect and support.

I am not grieving at all. I am glad he is physically alive and taught us all what is possible in this country. He was and is just an inspiration to continue to fight for the issues he laid out in his campaign and the necessity to prevent something like it to ever happen again.

For that you have to change the system. Party politics seems to be irrelevant as are your votes. Because you haven't found a way to change your electoral system and some other stuff in your antiquated constitution of yesteryears.

So working on that is what will be the future fight.