Dear Bernie and Bernie Supporters:
Thanks. The dialogue in this campaign would not have taken its progressive turn without you. You have done the Democratic Party and the American people a true favor. All progressive Ds and D socialists owe you a big debt.
That said, Hillary was going to be the party nominee when the your campaign began, and she will still be the nominee when the primary season ends. Bernie, you seem to have been sitting ignored on the back bench for so long that the glare of the spotlights has affected your cognition. You seem to think that if you hit Hillary hard enough you will really knock her out of the ring.
Bernie, remember this is the woman who sat in front of the Rs on the Benghazi committee for 11 hours and kicked their asses. She has put up with Bill Clinton for decades. You will not defeat her to become the nominee. Learn it; live with it.
But, what you CAN DO is demonize her to YOUR supporters to the degree that they stay home in the general election. Oh, you will (if you have any sense at all) make nice at the convention and tell your folks that she will be a monumental improvement over anyone the Rs might chose.
But, you will have already poisoned the apple if you keep attacking her character or her values. These attacks will have your folks looking at her and Donald Trump and going on Election Day– “it’s ‘tweedle dee vs. tweedle dum,’ so who wants pizza, while we watch these toadies of the capitalist system play out their sick games?”
IF you do that to her with your supporters, then you will have betrayed every principle and policy for which you have fought, lo these many years. If it is so important that you vanquish Hillary, why isn’t it equally important that she be in the best possible position to vanquish whatever repugnant purveyor of codswallop the Rs nominate.
Ralph Nader in 2000 pulled enough votes from Gore in Florida that he gave the next eight years to “The Shrub.” And, you know what W gave us and the world in those 8 long years. Bernie, if you do another version of that trick in 2016, then you will (if you own up to it) never forgive yourself–neither will I and a bunch of other folks like me.
With respect,
ATexican
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