"Bernie Looks Ahead"

[$tevie]

I don't know if Bernie would have gotten the nomination regardless of whether these speeches were leaked, the emails were leaked, or if Wasserman-Schultz had dropped dead. We won't ever really know.

We do know that Sanders is working to get Clinton elected. He isn't crying about spilled milk, he IS working to encourage grass-roots action to achieve his goals but in the meantime he has endorsed our only viable candidate for President. In short, it's time to move on.

And btw, there is something to be said for being a loyal member of a political party. If you have any dreams of a third party coming to life, it ain't going to happen if people hopscotch around to whatever party they feel like being in that year. It's like people no longer have any concept of what a political party is. It's NOT a hat you slap on when it is convenient.

[RgrF]

My ruminations of what could have been, have nothing to do with my sense of reality. I'm not an idealist but do understand that Bernie generated a number of them and for good reason.

HRC is one of the most fortunate candidates of our lifetime and hopefully will fulfill her Presidency in the mold of her predecessor. I hold Republican politics in disdain. I also hold the prior Clinton Administration for compromising away almost every important progressive principle we should have stood for in equal distain.

I have little reason to believe and can only hope she's learned that capitulating to the right (welfare/sentencing/budgeting) may be a road to sustaining oneself in office but in the long run serves the country poorly. Bill was clever, photogenic but spineless when it came to issues of principle.

Hopefully, she'll find her own path and move on from that sort of governance.

Negotiation and accommodation is one thing capitulation like Bill did, is another.