Liz Greil: She got to where she is by cheating and it would be naive to think it won't happen in the general as well.
Thomas Goodfellow: Bernie will still be a US Senator with a considerable mandate that cannot be ignored. I think he would be more effective there as a moral compass.
Darin Singleton: The facade of allowing even the most timid of Progressive planks in the Democratic platform will be quickly and completely ignored, Progressives will be further marginalized, and a new generation of potential Progressive voters will be utterly alienated by the open and brazen corruption of the political process.
Andy Ball: I find it incredulous that Bernie is so naive that he's not aware of how much she is despised by the electorate.
Joan Banach: It is a dispiriting and sadness and disbelief of a profound nature when I see Bernie Sanders onstage with Clinton - knowing, believing, how hard it was to do what he had to do. Post Sanders private tete-a-tete with Obama, Sanders entire demeanor changed. I don't know what was said, but it marked a quantum change in his energy. His effort to reconcile and go forward is something heroic. The DNC is a dead, corrupt, and dysfunctional organization in my view. I was appalled by their treatment of Sanders, and by their blind stupidity. I have been a lifelong democrat, but I plan to re-register as an Independent when this charade, this disaster of an election is over.
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Joan Banach: It is a dispiriting and sadness and disbelief of a profound nature when I see Bernie Sanders onstage with Clinton - knowing,
believing, how hard it was to do what he had to do. Post Sanders private tete-a-tete with Obama, Sanders entire demeanor changed. I don't know what was said, but it marked a quantum change in his energy. His effort to reconcile and go forward is something heroic. The DNC is a dead, corrupt, and dysfunctional organization in my view. I was appalled by their treatment of Sanders, and by their blind stupidity. I have been a lifelong democrat, but I plan to re-register as an Independent when this charade, this disaster of an election is over.
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Honestly, I really don't know what all of this really means nor where it is actually going. One friend who read this article as a draft said that she thought the core of the anti-Hillary rage out there derived from a reaction against her being a powerful woman. I said absolutely not, and if you read the comments, you would see most of them are BY women.
She replied with the question that "Why wasn't I concerned about what happened to Al Gore in 2000?" And I replied that of course I was, and that she and everyone else with a functioning brain and even the remotest curiosity and sense of Justice should take 80 minutes and watch on YouTube the film "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections."
I personally am not going to vote for anyone for President, but may do a write-in for Bernie Sanders. I am shifting the entire focus of our Facebook group, Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Win, to a focus on legislative issues that concern you.
My largest concern right now is how to prevent the privatization of National Forests, as in John McCain's plan to turn the Tonto National Forest into America's largest copper mine. Only Bernie Sanders and two other cosponsoring Senators, Martin Heinrich of NM and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, stand between keeping the National Forests intact and the total desecration and destruction that would result from further unbridled corporate power and plutocracy.
That is my deepest and most profound concern, because of my sense of Justice for all Native and Indigenous peoples.
What is yours, in terms of legislative issues? Our Facebook group is now intended to be a clearing house of such information, whatever concerns you most.... Please comment, and feel free to join our group, Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Win.
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