so...if you tell me 'you can't possibly win' or 'the math is not there' or any one of the other

[islandmkl]

hundreds of punditry-level claims that are supposed to make me..what?...give up?...switch candidates now?...this early?

my friends, if your intent is to demoralize me, dissuade me from further support and activities, offer me some form of warm embrace into the Third Way fold, just expect me to submit to the direction the party I have been a member of since forever is going even though that direction is in direct opposition to the very basic tenets of the Democratic Party...

well, it isn't going to work that way...

The Democratic Party is FDR, Truman, JFK, RFK, LBJ, Carter...not what it has become since the '80s...

and that is the rub...those who can't see the desire to get the Party back to its roots probably have no experience with those roots...

those Sanders crowds may not translate into 2016 primary votes...but they WILL translate into votes in the future...getting older seems to have that effect on all of us...

mock them at your own peril...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. That 'math will not be there' if Hillary reaches 50%+1 of the available regular delegates.

Until that point, the math is still there.

But what Hillary supporters simply cannot seem to wrap their heads around is the notion that Sanders supporters simply aren't just playing 'my candidate is better than yours' games. That we fundamentally find their candidate to be as unacceptable as Ted Cruz or Chris Christie. That 'Lesser Evil' only works up to a point, and that their candidate has moved far enough right to be beyond that point, that we now consider her to be just another socially liberal Republican, whose time in office would continue to see us plunging headfirst towards global extinction.

[peacebird]

4. Exactly.

[randome]

2. Other pundits have good things to say about Sanders. Maybe we should ignore all pundits?

No one is saying to give up (well, maybe some are), but it's best to see things in the cold light of day. Clinton looks to have what is needed to win the nomination. If that changes, fine, I'm okay with that. I think most of us would be, too.

Is the main reason some complain about those rooting for Clinton is that they recognize Sanders is losing ground? How often have we heard that Sanders will have a 50-state sweep of the primaries? Or that he is consistently ahead in all the polls? Or, now that he's fallen behind in delegate counts, that he will win all the remaining states?

I don't think statements like that are designed to demoralize Clinton supporters so what's the point of those posts?
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[Bluenorthwest]

5. One should take all pundits with a grain of salt and a guide to their financial relationships.....

But the OP does not seem to be talking about them...

[1939]

3. 1972 and 1984

caused the birth of the "third way", the DLC, and the "Atari Democrats".