Bernie Sanders is reaching the end of his line regarding certain promises he's made. He's headed to the Convention, and he's been working on affecting the Democratic Platform, supposedly in return (according to recent reports) that he will endorse Hillary and work to defeat Trump.

Many of us Berners don't have much trust that Hillary will live up to her side of any bargain he agrees to. We already know how the Clintons got away with violating election laws by campaigning at polling places, and the fact that the FBI was somehow neutralized to prevent a recommendation for prosecution for acts which Director Comey stated would have sent anyone else to jail.

It seems that back in 2001, an essay by Audrey Immelman revealed that the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics of St. Johns University in Minnesota released a study of Hillary's personality. Here are some of the conclusions:

Hillary Clinton is an aggressive and controlling personality; when she makes up her mind about something, she loses interest in other people’s points of view; she is often impatient; she lacks empathy and can act harshly to those seen as standing in her way; she has boundary problems due to her excessive level of self-confidence – that is, when she “knows” she is right, she doesn’t like the idea that there are limits that she has to abide by.

None of this should be a surprise to anyone who has been following the events covered even in the corporate media. But it does raise some concerns regarding what Bernie's plan is to deal with what looks more and more like an eventuality:

To see a run-down on how Clinton’s strategy plays out, plank by plank of the proposed party platform, go to William Boardman’s 28 June 2016 essay “Platform for Deception – Democrats at Work.” Boardman clearly shows that Clinton and her allies are playing a smoke and mirrors game with the party platform. They pay lip service to almost all of Sanders demands, but in almost every case refuse to commit to any policy programs for change. It is as if Clinton and her allies are saying to Sanders and his supporters, “You can make us pronounce platitudes, but when it comes to practice, you cannot make us do anything. Policy formulation is not your business.”

The bottom line:

The probability that [“a platform draft that advances our party’s progressive ideals and is worthy of our great country” -Wasserman-Schultz] will satisfy either Bernie Sanders or his roughly 12 million supporters is close to zero.

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[Hillary Clinton and her Democratic Party allies] will fight, sometimes ruthlessly, to maintain the status quo from whence they draw their power and influence.

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In other words, the Sanders delegates will be defeated and yet another notable effort at reform will probably pass into history.

By promising to back the Democrats against Trump, Bernie has put himself between a rock and a hard place:

What the Clinton and the Democratic leadership are forcing Sanders to do is chose between oligarchies – The Democratic Party one or the Republican Party one – which is exactly the unsatisfactory choice voters have had all along.

It's too late to go back and change things. The mold was cast, and the finished product is setting. Bernie's role in this political drama is almost over. There is but one act remaining, and the ending is not yet carved into stone:

The only unknown is what the 12 million supporters of the Sanders movement for reform will do. In theory, if a sufficient number of these people can find new leaders and hold themselves together, hitting the streets in a coordinated and continuous way right through the November election, they have a chance of scaring at least some of the Democratic leaders into a progressive path. But that is theory, and practice is always a more difficult endeavor.

My experience with popular movements has generally been one of disappointment. People always promise to do more than they ever deliver. I fully expect that too many Berners will succumb to the Succubus and vote for the Wall St Oligarchy. I hold out little hope that I will be pleasantly surprised.

All quoted sections, including links, are from Hillary Clinton’s Platform Follies as published by http://www.counterpunch.org