Comment: Well for gods' sake Bernie, you had to know that the platfo

Subject: Well for gods' sake Bernie, you had to know that the platfo

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Well for gods' sake Bernie, you had to know that the platform committee was going to be dominated by Clintonian puppets, and that they were going to give her the platform that she really wants, not the one she claimed to want when she was running in the primaries against you and trying to win progressive votes through pretending to be something she's not. Now she's running for president against Donald Trump and she at least thinks she has no need to try to win the left, in part because you say you're going to support her by staying in the Democratic Party and voting for her!

It's time for you to cut the strings that have been wrapped around you by the lilliputian neoliberals of the DNC and Clinton campaign, and be the independent socialist that you've always been.

Take the high road, leave the sclerotic and thoroughly corrupt Democratic Party and run, as Jill Stein has invited you to do, as the Green candidate for president. You'll win! You've proven already that you are the best campaigner out there, and the polls show you're the most popular candidate. Even if you don't win, you'll establish the Green Party as a mainstream party of the left for the first time since Debs led the Socialist Party, and we all need that to happen!

Stop the games. Run Green!

Dave Lindorff

founding editor of ThisCantBehappening.net