The End "in a sense":

“The evidence is overwhelming that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, and if you are voting for someone else and not supporting Hillary Clinton because, in a sense, she doesn’t live up to all of your specifications or ideas, I think it is in a sense a vote for Trump.”

Even in safe states? Wow. Just go on and reward the neo-liberal shits that created this mess? Nope! Uh-uh not me, f*ck that. Not everyone has the resources currently afforded today's modern politicians, but you go Bernie. Do what you think is right.

Thanks

it's clear that that is only another grifter's delight. Send $3!

"It'll be Our Revolution!"
"ok, but where's Bernie?"
"he's out campaigning for the one who asks Kissinger for advice"
"well then who's in charge?"
"not Bernie, that's for sure...some other guy"
"the guy we merely put up with since we trusted Bernie?"
"yeah, that's the guy"

Regardless of what Bernie is doing now, his entering the Democratic primary exposed the rot at the top of the Democratic party and many people will never see the party the same way. No one knows at this point the ramifications of Bernie's attempt to secure the nomination, but I believe later he will be credited with more than a footnote. It's difficult to see history when it's in the making. The Democratic party will be forced to undergo a transformation and Bernie's campaign contributed to that. Politicians are reactive, not proactive; but the seeds were planted for change.

I think to be insulted by what she said you'd need to be looking for insult. One day someone will tell me how it is different than Bernie's entire campaign.

condescending undertones and inconsistencies of her past actions compared to her public rhetoric during her campaigns and all the promises made by Hillary Clintons.

It's weird to me, but thenI see Sanders playing the game as smart as he knows. He just ignores all the arguments his former supporters have against Hillary Clinton, as if he didn't have them as well before the primaries.

He is right to say that many kids live in their parents basements, because neither them nor the parents have other options. What would you call parents who wouldn't help their kids to have a roof over their heads and let them watch their kids going homeless? I would say that would be pretty assholish parents. Millions of families all over the world, live together with their adult children, when their are no other options. That's what families are for. Darn it.

So, if Hillary Clintons puts those, who have to live in their parents house, down, then this lady just should get beaten up over her head for her arrogance. (I heard nothing but arrogance in her comments, Sanders pretends there is none of that. Well, may be has not much of a sense for sounds and music).

But you can obviously decide to hear something else in her comments, ignore her actions in the past, and pretend she is good-willing in her intentions. Sanders decided to play his game that way for now. So, it is what it is. I give him some slack, as to be more afraid of Trumbp than being of Clinton, considering he might be way more sensitiive to the anti-semitic sounds coming from Trump.

But the I think that the way Stephanoupoulos started talking introducing him as one of Clinton's important supporters, is the absolutely freaking way American ecletions campaigns are played and media enable the game to the fullest. It's a fucking game, a scam, nothing has any meaning. All blah, blah to create self-serving news, sound off on TV and lie the hell out of your mouths.

In that sense it's really not worth giving a damn about the elections. It's a kabuki theater by the millionaire power players for the millionaire power players in the government and a staged event paid for by profiteering corporation, who want to write the laws that are good for their bottom line, and faithfully executed for both by the media.

Moses is going to lead us out of Egypt (we've all known we had to leave...thanks Moses, for stepping up!). There is dissension, however, as Edward G Robinson wants to go a different direction, right into Saudi Arabia! or whatever it was called then. Moses agrees with us that we need to go to the promised land.

Eventually Eddie G. wins out and we start the long trek to the desert. Moses, Moses, why are you going along with this? And Moses says "we all know that Eddie G. Robinson is way more qualified than [whoever is being presented as the villain] and the desert wasteland of Saudi Arabia is the most progressive desert ever, much better than the Gobi. If you want to insist we go to Canaan or Goshen or Israel you're effectively saying you want to go to the Gobi Desert."

And some people will say "yes, we must go to the Arabian desert because we surely don't want to go to the Gobi!"

Next time I make this point I think I'll throw in Br'er Rabbit to make it folksier.

Re-read The Wasteland. B'gosh. Island sampling am I?

It was clear to me and many others from the get-go that Sanders could not possibly win the Democratic nomination - the party establishment just had too many ways to put the blocks to him, and besides, recent history shows there is always a true-blue leftist challenger to the centrist, neoliberal establishment candidate, and that sooner or later that challenger always falls by the wayside. It's a central part of the party's sales pitch - we're the big tent party that's sympathetic to the egalitarian, stand-up-for-the-little-guy message. Just not this year.

I don't know if Bernie Sanders knew all along that his campaign was doomed from its very inception, and that his campaign was helping to promote a perception of Democratic Party inclusiveness that was very much at odds with reality. Personally, I think he accomplished some positive things with his campaign that wouldn't have been possible if he'd ran as an independent or third party candidate. The level of support he received, the amount of media attention, and his ability to force Clinton and the party establishment to address his central issues would never have happened without that major party imprimatur.

That said, there is a rather grotesque disconnect between running as a candidate opposed to special interest domination of the political process, opposed to environmentally destructive practices such as fracking, opposed the for-profit health care model, opposed to huge and expanding levels of income inequality, and any number of other corrupt, elite-favoring government policies on the one hand, and then turning around and endorsing a candidate who is virtually the living embodiment of all those terrible and morally bankrupt policies when his campaign comes up short. "But, Donald Trump!" is not even close to a good and sufficient justification. A point an earlier incarnation of Bernie Sanders himself made, in no uncertain terms.

No man's character, no man's inner toughness or moral courage can truly be judged until it is in some way profoundly tested. This is the year that Bernie Sanders' moment of truth finally arrived, and I believe it found him sadly wanting.

it furthers their interests. Period.

From blog pie fights to wars throughout the world: When we use our time, our energy, our attention to rip each other up and tear each other down, we are aiding and abetting the forces that keep us divided and ineffective. We are actively contributing to our own demise in the name of ... what?

If we are ever going to change anything, we need to begin to recognize the tactics used against us, develop strategies for answering them effectively, learn how to grow trust between ourselves and repair that trust when it (inevitably) gets damaged, hold to the larger vision--as always as possible--and build momentum, getting better together.

Tactical question: What could destroy morale, after all the events since the DNC, more than Bernie echoing Hillary? Not much, I'm thinking. So it's a super effective divisive, demoralizing tactic on "their" part.

Why Bernie is doing it is both beyond our ability to know, and ultimately irrelevant. What can be known right now is this is another blow to the trust each of us placed in him, to whatever degree we did.

What can we do with what we can know? Grieve, rant, burn--but don't let this break us, individually or as a movement. Let's learn from it. "They" do this every time: they take down our leaders, compromise our heroes, lie, cheat, steal and kill. It's what "they" do. And, from what I've seen, any one of "us," under the right (or wrong) conditions, can be flipped to a "they." Agent Smiths in waiting.

Bernie is, for now and who knows how long, not fully trustworthy: draw that line where you will. I will always be grateful to him for bringing me hope, on a very practical level. The response to his candidacy revealed the beating heart of America, and a glimpse of our potential. We can be grateful for painful lessons learned and learn them this time. We can protect and support each other. Protect our hopes and dreams, our morale and motivation, our growing agency and power. We can nurture healthy conflict, multiple perspectives, and as much diversity of experience as we can get.

There is so much work we need to do, on so many levels, working together. I just hate to see any more time lost in pie fights, and hate the greater divisions that grow from them.

*came back to add my gratitude to Bernie.

Clinton and the democratic party establishment have Sanders on a slow burn path toward marginalization so he can never lead any sort of insurgency with the democratic party. Obama gave Hillary the SoS job? Would Hillary offer Bernie anything close to this? I suspect not. My hope is he can re-emerge and lead an anti-war effort next year when Hillary starts wars with either Russia or Iran. But you only get one chance at pipe-piping.

for their views on political issues, but he refrained from any negative remarks about Jill Stein. I suppose he couldn't refer to Jill at all, else Medusa would have a shit-fit and sentenced him to Lower Slobovia.

My take on this is that Bernie is saying the bare minimum in reference to Medusa--even in his "pro-Hillary" speeches. He actually talks more about his platform/ideas. He never has used the word "endorse" regarding the Mad Bomber as far as I know.

Bernie says to his audience: "You make your [electoral] decisions for yourselves--I won't tell you how to vote"

Finally, he has made only one feeble venture against Jill in stating that voting third party is a wasted vote. I do not recall him making a strong or repeated condemnation of Jill.

This behavior to me is like the resistance movements' passive-aggressive response to foreign occupiers--sort of like the French Resistance to the Nazis in WW2.

I don't claim to know why he is doing what he is doing. This is just an opinion.