In my state we were told that we could not hold meetings at the campaign office and would receive no support for distributing leaflets. People with significant political organizing experience were insulted by paid staffers. The lead staffer said, "I don't need your help. My political science degree cost me $!60,000, so I know what I'm doing." The folks who ran as Bernie delegates were all party hacks in the bag for Hillary, and they did things to disrupt attempts to organize for Bernie, while ostensibly serving as his delegates. Our state leader was on the payroll of a Hillary PAC. Apparently there was no vetting. When we sent a note to national to request training for poll watchers they said there wasn't time and that only attorneys could do that. After Bernie's rally the office was abandoned although there months left in the primary season. Despite reporting each of these to headquarters (which didn't have a phone number to call), we received responses saying, "We received your email and share your concern." ??? Never saw anything like it. My friend said back in February, "I will vote for him, but he's not really trying to win the nomination -- just to influence the discussion." Chris Hedges predicted early on that Bernie's run with the Dem party would just bring in more young people to vote for Hillary. Sadly both my friend and Hedges were right -- didn't want to believe it then. Too many honest supporters are not willing to open their eyes to how badly we were taken down the Yellow Brick Road. But there is no man behind the curtain and we're back in Kansas now with Auntie Em.

"I asked Jaffe about Sanders’s role in achieving that last set of advances. “I don’t think the Bernie energy was even about the election,” she said. “It was about, what is the next thing?”

election night back in November 2008. An old friend who has both a Harvard Law School diploma and a Doctor of Divinity called me up at about midnight, spoke one sentence and hung up. He said "Tonight, the American people laid a rose on the grave of Abraham Lincoln." Although I didn't weep, it did bring a lump to my throat.

In November 2008, it would have been difficult for me to imagine that I would feel the way that I feel about Barack Obama in August 2016.

and I think actions bear this out, is the DNC does not want progressives in congress. Or the presidency. They want business as usual and nothing to upset the cart. IOW, They are in bed having sex with the RNC...All for Some and None for All...

it will be one of the rare times that I've been thankful for anything they've done....even if it's for the wrong reason (i.e. because PBO wants it).

Don't forget that it was most of the Republicans and a dozen Quisling Democrats(including my own) that passed fast track and resurrected it when it died a well deserved death.

I find it unlikely that the Republicans' hate of Obama will save us this time.

He is progressive on most issues. Everything but Israel, really.

Those two things, together, should warrant support--especially since the DNC took out a million-dollar ad buy against him.

Let me put it this way: DFA and Dean would have supported Grayson, under similar circumstances, any time between 2004-2010.

My funds aren't so great that I can ship off bucks every time a worthy candidate asks for more. For instance, I only had $6 to send to Pramila Jayapal just yesterday. She has had to wait in line while what little money I can raise goes to Alan Grayson, Jill Stein, and Tim Canova as priorities. I have had to let Russ Feingold fend for himself, for I trust that he's strong enough in WI to make it without my help.

It's the best that I can do, and it's more than I have ever done before. I still support relatives who were thrown overboard due to the 2008 "recession" and have yet to regain the earning power they once had. I can't do more.

So many people have given up now, and the media continues to ignore Jill. Once it was apparent the Dem Primary was rigged, which should have surprised no one, all bets should have been off. The people who would have hysterically accused Bernie of reneging (not that the Clintons ever changed their mind!!!!!!) on his announcement early on that he would support the Dem candidate-- i.e., the Hillbots and the MSN-- wouldn't have voted for him anyway. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on, as they say, and it would have been forgotten in a week.

We have lost, the country has lost, the world has lost, a key and pivotal moment in time-- all so that a sociopatich and power-hungry corporatist can continue to work out her crazy issues/lust for power. The very last thing the world needs is the return of These People, from the '90's, to wreck their Triangulating havoc on a world crying out for desperate change. If there is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come, what happens to that idea when it is supplanted by an idea whose time has long gone?

These events seem quite manipulated to me, designed to create this kind of division. If it wasn't by design, then somebody was incredibly stupid and ham-handed--it's not like it would have been difficult to predict that this sort of thing would divide and demoralize people.

You can't have the majority of staff leave on the eve of launch, under these circumstances, without this division happening among supporters. Therefore, you need to address the issues well before launch, and find a solution everyone can live with. FFS, can't Jeff Weaver have another job? How about put him with BNC, or in Sanders' DC office, or any of a number of non-profits?

You either want to build a movement, or you don't.