There are various articles on the internet about the Democratic consultants panting over the prospect of getting their hands on Bernie's Donor list.

Well, I am one of those Bernie donors in a pretty big way, I supported the party for a couple of years at the level of $50 a month after 2004, and then switched to supporting Allen Grayson after Rham's comments about stupid progressives.

If most of the Democrats think they are going to get a nickle out of me, they have another think coming, and other than some of my women friends who are okay with Hillary, I think most of the donor list has a simular opinion.
We are donating because we want a candidate that will fight for our issues, is reliable and consistent, and has no glaring conflicts of interest.

Which leads me to observe that this same article says that they expect Bernie to eventually "play ball" with the Democratic establishment. God I HOPE NOT!

I believe in Bernie down to my toes.
But he evidently gave his WORD that he would not run third party.

But we have just seen how corrupt the elections process has become. Audits which are not audits, but staged productions, different hours in different places in the same state, a restricted number of voting machines, and unreasonable pre-affiliation deadlines.
The system is rigged, and the Democratic Party is in on it.

If his WORD prevents Bernie from running as a Green, then we have a choice. Vote for Hillary, Don't vote, or through our money and energy behind the Green Party and Jill Stein.
Maybe we could even get Elizabeth Warren or O'Malley to run as her vice president.

I would seriously recommend the latter course, and I believe that if we can get the message right, that by and large, capitalists do not do any actual work to obtain the capitol to buy the worker's labor, we could win the General.
This has become a message/policy driven campaign and the message that co-ops work, and large cooperation like GE are actually state subsidized, often getting most of their profits from government contracts while paying zero corporate taxes, and transferring the wealth to individuals who pay capitol gains rates, at most, needs to continue to be put out there to gain traction. We need to remind people that at the end of WWII the government essentially GAVE the factories to the corps.
Right now we have a govt/private partnership where the banks originate most of the capitol in the country as debt, we could just as easily have the government originate capitol to buy every worker into a co-op of their choosing instead.

Another thing, there are things that collectivism does well, and things it does not do well. We want research that challenges confirmatory biases, we want development of disruptive technologies, we want the manufacture of a broad array of consumer goods. We want jobs where rigorous attention to product quality is a matter of pride, and worker happiness is equally important.

Food and water are the foundation. We want to conserve the productivity of the land and produce a wide variety of nutritious crops in sufficient abundance to feed everyone. We want small farms and large. We want our youngsters to know what hard labor feels like, and where their food comes from. So 3 years of national service on the farm sounds about right.

We want everyone to be able to pursue education to the level that they are capable of and desire.
We need to figure out how to do that without producing perpetual student lay-abouts. Like alternate quarters of education and related labor, or some such.

Anyway
We are told that there is no alternative to what we have now other than heavy handed central planning, while Germany does quite well with co-ops and a requirement for labor to be on any corporate board.
It is not beyond the wit of man to figure out what steps we need to take, what the pitfalls are to each approach and how to mitigate them.