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Still a path to victory: Decrying Clinton's Wall Street and Oil Industry Bribes, Bernie Soldiers On

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And he will continue to denounce the corrupt and racist justice system and the militarized policing in the US that have together made this country the incarceration capital of the world, and a nation that is more of a domestic war zone than a civilized society.

In continuing his campaign in this manner, Sanders will be undermining Clinton, particularly among the key portions of the electorate that are normally the most supportive of Democratic candidates -- progressives, young people, African Americans and Latinos, and working-class people of all colors.

I don't know what Sanders will ultimately decide to do when the Democratic Convention is over and when, as appears all but inevitable, barring a surprise indictment, Hillary Clinton becomes the party's presidential nominee. Maybe he'll refuse to endorse her. I hope he decides to do that. But even if he were to endorse her, given all that he has said, and given the corrupt and dirty way she has campaigned against him with her lies and misrepresentations, I suspect the endorsement won't be offered with any enthusiasm.

It's a good sign that speaking on the night of his sweeping losses March 15, when he might have emulated Republican candidate Marco Rubio and dropped out of the race, Sanders once again condemned Clinton for the money she has taken from big business interests. As he said, to roars from the assembled crowd:

"...She has a super PAC which among other special interests has received $15 million from Wall Street. She has received money from the drug companies and the fossil fuel industry. She has given speeches on Wall Street for $225,000 a pop. Now to my mind if you're going to give a speech for $225,000 it must be a really great speech, and if it's such a great speech, all of America should be able to read it!"

It will be hard to go from that kind of harsh and truthful attack to an endorsement.

It remains to be seen how Sanders will decide to end his campaign, assuming he doesn't through some miracle nab the nomination at July's convention in Philadelphia. Clearly he has struck a chord with a huge segment of the electorate, either handily winning primaries in states from New Hampshire to Colorado, or coming painfully close as in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri and Nevada. He would have won many more states and delegates, and would probably be on the way to an easy nomination, had the corporate media not deceived much of the voting public, first by ignoring his campaign altogether for months, and then, when that became impossible, by spreading the lie that Clinton was the inevitable candidate and the one who would more likely defeat whoever was the Republican candidate. Many of those deceived voters have told exit polls that they liked what Sanders was saying but wanted to vote for someone who would defeat Donald Trump or whoever else won the Republican primary.

Those who have listened to and supported Sanders' call for a politic system free of corporate sponsorship, a state-run health system that is available to all, free public colleges, real action on climate change, a foreign policy not based on war, and a criminal justice system that is not racist, and that focuses on rehabilitation, not on punishment number in the millions, are ready to be organized into a political force to be reckoned with. Sanders is in the position to help do that.

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