and I didn't even have to listen to it. As soon as I saw the title - the music began!

I cannot support anything about HRC, Cassiodorus. I cannot believe she will stick to what she says. She will only pay lip service to this. It's Bernie or nobody for me. I'll write him in if he is not the nominee, period.

endorsing her, he should call for the establishment of a new party.

he would ask for.

He knows damned well she's not going to give 'em. She'd have to adopt nearly his entire platform.

Also, Cenk had a moment when he asked Bernie if he could trust a Clinton promise--IOW, if she did promise to support Bernie's policy positions in exchange for support, could Bernie trust her. He went on to use Clinton's flip-flopping on TPP as an example:
"Do you really believe she will maintain a position against TPP, or will she flip when she gets in office?"

Bernie cited the head of the Chamber of Commerce, who apparently told his membership not to worry what Hill says on campaign trail against TPP.

So obviously, he knows that she is not trustworthy.

The question is, what does he think the movement can do about it?

My best guess? He will ask her for so much that she won't be willing to lie and say she'll endorse it all.

I don't expect it will take any less to end Corporate Hegemony.

The Greens already have the ballot access in nearly enough states. If the young people backing Sanders will go beyond the donations and caucuses and show up to the tiny nearly-defunct chapters of their local Green Party, they can absolutely take over and revitalize it.

It's sitting there waiting to be seized. It's waiting for their time and their energy. They can get to work at the ground level going for country supervisor seats, school board seats, city council seats. They can do it *and* behave themselves with integrity the Democrat Party would never tolerate.

Sanders has to lead them into that wilderness, if he's ever meant anything he's ever said. He needs to sit down with Jill and convince her to be his VP. He needs to show that "This is where you go when the Democrats have screwed you once too often".

He's at an historical crossroads here. Endorsing Clinton, even with caveats, would be selling out. What's he going to do, ask us to vote for her if she promises not to hit us again?

I like "Vote with your conscience."

... Bernie's going to win the hearts and minds of The People and still lose to HRC "because he can't win" (funny, but no one has a logical reason for why he can't win next to her since she's the one who has the questionably illegal actions in her recent past) and then have to suck up to HRC after she has plagiarized his platform with "Ooh, ooh, ooh, me too, me too, me too! I claim to promote the same things Bernie does!" is mentally and emotionally distressing for me. HRC does not for one nanosecond really endorse anything Bernie says, and everyone with a fully functioning brain knows it. Just go back to her earliest speeches when she declared her candidacy and the first couple of weeks immediately thereafter (before she or her staff became aware of Bernie's large & overflowing crowds, noted the best applause and cheering when he speaks). If we have the misfortune of Hillary being elected, that's what she will revert to. It's a combination of the worst warmongering and status quo policies of the last fifteen years of Dumbya & Obama.

Planning a losing strategy for Bernie's campaign is not why I opted to support Bernie since before he declared his candidacy. I honestly believe in the programs Bernie is promoting, have done since looooong before I started paying attention to Bernie's speeches in the House or Senate since I was already aware many years ago about cradle-to-grave socialized medicine & 'free' education in the Scandinavian countries and the benefits thereof. I also wondered why the frack anyone bothered promoting the corporate-written medical insurance for ACA/Obamacare since it only forces people (by law, no less!) to contribute to the profit margins of insurance, medical, and pharmaceutical corporations, starting as far back as Medicare Part D (passed under Dumbya) which was the blueprint for the larger ACA. Lots of us wanted a Medicare for ALL program (w/fixing Part D by merging it into the larger Medicare program) - after all, it's what we started paying for all those years ago with payroll deductions (and those of us who are old enough to be on Social Security still pay for it).

Supporting policies and programs that benefit We the People comes under the heading of "promoting the General Welfare" as noted in the Preamble to the US Constitution and they are winning strategies for candidates who take their oath of office seriously. War, and more illegal and unconstitutional wars, clearly do not fall under the category of "promoting the General Welfare" of We the People. Clinton clearly does not support the same things Bernie does, and no amount of her lying will convince me she does; she's just trying to steal votes away from Bernie with her "me too!" nonsense.

Pick a speech - any speech - of Bernie's from the last half a century that are online at YouTube, and he is consistent in promoting what is good for We the People. That rock-solid consistency is one of the reasons I support Bernie. He doesn't waffle or waver or compromise his core principles, and I admire him for that.

I'm planning on Bernie winning the nomination (in spite of caucus or primary "irregularities" that have already happened in more than one state). The millisecond after Bernie declared his candidacy I knew I'd either fill in the oval next to Bernie's name on the ballot, or I'd write his name in the presidential category. I don't care which, but voting FOR a candidate I can finally endorse and not compromising my principles again to vote "for" the lesser of two evils remains part of my future plans. As a new septuagenerian, I am voting my conscience for the rest of my life - starting with voting FOR Bernie.

A little birdie gave me a jolt of my own body's oxytocin and endorphins last night, and losing (or planning to lose) isn't part of that feeling. Let's win this thing for the future children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who need a cleaner & healthier planet to live on, air to breathe, and water to drink!