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Democrats at a Clinton-Sanders Crossroad

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If any super-delegates fall for that argument I will believe they are too politically illiterate to govern. I do care who wins the pledged delegate count. But neither Hillary nor Bernie will have won the pledged count by the end of the primaries.

I understand why the super-delegates came into being. But I think it is a completely undemocratic way of choosing candidates in the so-called "Democratic" party. I don't mind giving a free ticket to the convention to the super-delegates. Just don't give them a vote. Let the people decide, or stop calling this the Democratic Party.

I'm glad to read that party leaders are considering replacing Debbie Wasserman Schultz. But that is only a first step. The next step would be to ask all the networks not to call the race over before the biggest state, California, has even finished voting. In fact, the party should issue statements to the networks reminding them that the primaries are not the vote that selects our nominee. Only the delegates select our candidate (as undemocratic as that is).

The whole process was stacked not just against Bernie Sanders but against any progressive through the frontloading of the Confederacy states. I don't buy the narrative that Bernie can't win minorities because I'm surrounded by minority volunteers who are supporting Bernie Sanders all over Los Angeles. That's a false and destructive narrative, and one the party leaders have repeated.

The State Department's IG report on Hillary's email server wasn't needed for me. My gosh, I can't think of any employer on the planet that would let you, as an employee, conduct the company's business from your own private server. That would, in the private sector, have been a firing offense. I would hope that in a government, it would prevent such a person from running for President!

That Hillary could possibly pretend that was okay shows she was either ignorant, in denial, or a liar, and none of those are qualities I want in my next president. The IG report should be the nail in the coffin of her candidacy. If Hillary didn't follow the rules of the State Department, what other rules will she break? I, for one, do not want to have to find out.

Bernie or Bust

As a Democrat I am telling you as plainly as I can, I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton. Give me Bernie Sanders, and I can support the Democratic Party this fall. Give me Clinton, and I cannot, in good conscience, vote for her. Trump is a nightmare that would be short-lived and will destroy what's left of the Republican Party. Hillary's presidency would also be short-lived and would destroy what's left of the Democratic Party. I know the Supreme Court is at stake. But millions of lives around the globe are at stake as well, and believe it or not, as an American, that really matters to me.

President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1997.
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1997.
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You have a choice between the past and the future. Hillary Clinton represents the worst parts of our past -- horrendous votes that costs millions of innocent lives, endless scandals, lies, and a dangerous dependence on Wall Street funding. Bernie Sanders represents the best part of our future -- bringing new, young, energetic and progressive people into the party who are fully willing to fund the candidates so they do NOT have to be dependent on Wall Street, so long as the candidates truly serve the interests of the people and not the big money donors who are corrupting our process.

With Bernie Sanders leading the ticket, I would be so proud to be a Democrat. With Hillary Clinton, I will literally be running out to change my party registration in protest to show that I cannot support a party that would put a spineless liar on the ticket.

And I am not at all alone. If the polls show that 70 percent of Bernie's voters would vote for Hillary, then I guarantee you the other 30 percent are out campaigning for Bernie. After many months, I have met precious few Bernie supporters who could ever vote for Hillary.

I've been volunteering as many hours as I could so my party would not have to make this mistake, so I could remain a Democrat and support the Party's whose history I have loved since I first understood it. Please don't make me hate my own party. Please don't make me leave it. Please don't make me campaign against it.

A lifelong Democrat who may no longer be able to say that after the convention,

Lisa Pease

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Lisa Pease has been a lifelong activist for progressive issues. She is a published author on the assassinations of the sixties, and has appeared on television and a number of radio shows.
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