I'll fight for Bernie with my last breath,

[snot]

because I believe humanity is at a turning point, and we are well and truly screwn, if we can't elect him.

If it should become inescapable that Bernie can't be our nominee, I'll fight to draft Liz Warren

If it should become inescapable that Warren can't be our nominee, I'll fight to draft John Kerry.

If it should become inescapable that Kerry can't be our nominee, I'll fight for Gore.

If it should become inescapable that Gore can't be our nominee, I'll fight for Dean.

And so on.

It would be wonderful to have a female Pres.; but for me, it's kind of like Clarence Thomas as the first black S. Ct. justice –– it would have been worth waiting for the right one.

[Jenny_92808]

1. I think that we can

elect Bernie as our next President. Let's DO IT!

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Actually, Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

Perhaps a better analogy would have been Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan. She cast a deciding vote against Al Gore in Bush v. Gore because she wanted to retire and couldn't bear the thought of Gore winning.

[snot]

3. Actually, for me, Hillary's a lot more like Clarence

than Sandra.

[LuvLoogie]

5. She's a lot more like the "first black supreme court justice?"

[LuvLoogie]

4. Liz will be supporting Hillary...

So will John,

So will Al,

So will Howard...

[Dragonfli]

6. More and more people are becoming aware of how screwed we the 99% are with no help

to be expected from anyone on the political horizon, besides Bernie Sanders.

We have allowed the party of the people to devolve into a co-conspirator that would have us all as slave labor feeding the wealthy, a country where those that have nothing to contribute to the wealth of the few are left to perish as useless eaters. A country where bloody empire for the profit of an out of control military industry and a thriving new mercenary industry are gorged on the blood of those that are no threat to us in any military sense. A modern form of feudalism that is developing before our eyes. Chief among the origins of this neo-feudalistic dystopia are the Clintons and their legacy complete with an heir apparent of that legacy that espouses a foreign policy vision that appears as if born the bastard son of Bush and Kissinger doctrines.

Without a party to protect us from the unwavering desire of some to re-create this nation as a neo-feudal fascism, it's rebirth will continue unabated on it's course toward the neo-feudal goal. With environmental disaster looming closely at our heels, there is little time left to regain a party that has brought us to this state, fighting for such revolutionary change as a rebirth of a party of the people as envisioned by Sanders and a few others, the loss of such a goal may very well be our last breath, our last chance before the worst becomes our permanent, if short lived as a species, death of any hope of survival or Democracy.

The 99% are beginning to see that they are on their own now against the purchased post-partisanship that will lead us to that goal faster or slower, but on the same course, ever rightward ever more cruel and ever more a threat to their well being and happiness.

We are almost there and there appears to be nothing to stop it. Nothing but us and the dream of one of our last true elder statesman. I sometimes ask myself, "how have we come this far down such a destructive and yet predictable path"

I blame us that are on the front of liberal thought for allowing our party to so easily be taken over by the republican castaways that dare claim to be more than what they are, purchased lackeys of the wealthy elite.

I blame myself for allowing myself to be used as shamelessly as any poverty stricken GOP member that would support and vote for what is demonstrably against their best interests and the interests of over 99% of the citizens of this country.

I blame the party faithful for so easily adopting and even cheering well known and deeply damaging right wing policy simply because they follow the party line (policies that they are well educated about and once fought against).

I blame the party itself for being so easily bought and co-opted by the policies of the Heritage Foundation and The Chamber of Commerce simply for a pittance in campaign contributions.


Without a party to oppose the neo-feudalists, what is left to stop them?
What can we do?
What can YOU do?

We can try to achieve the goals of Bernie Sanders and all he espouses, first by electing him and destroying the corporate cancer within our party. Then, continuing this peaceful political revolution that he tells us we can and should have, a revolution we know in our hearts is our last chance.

Or we can lose and with that loss be well and truly fucked.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. That's quite a list to get through between the end of the

convention and November. At least 4 separate campaigns you apparently plan to launch and support in the space of 3 months.

Hey, good luck with that. You're gonna be a busy bee...

[brooklynite]

8. So, I see you're okay with warmongers...

And you're okay with political sell-outs.

And you're prone to hyperbole.

Was there something particular bothering you?

[sufrommich]

10. "And you're prone to hyperbole."

I think that might be requirement for the Sanders campaign.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court justice but whatever.

It would be wonderful to have a female Pres.; but for me, it's kind of like Clarence Thomas as the first black S. Ct. justice –– it would have been worth waiting for the right one.

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court justice but whatever.


It makes as much sense as somebody who didn't run be the nominee.

[DanTex]

11. Have fun. Just make sure you vote for the Dem nominee in the general.

[randome]

12. Your 'last breath'? Who are you, one of Sanders' adopted children or something?

No politician is worth fighting to your last breath for.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[Tarc]

13. "it's kind of like Clarence Thomas as the first black S. Ct. justice" ?

Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice



Born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson of a slave. His father, William Marshall, instilled in him from youth an appreciation for the United States Constitution and the rule of law. After completing high school in 1925, Thurgood followed his brother, William Aubrey Marshall, at the historically black Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His classmates at Lincoln included a distinguished group of future Black leaders such as the poet and author Langston Hughes, the future President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and musician Cab Calloway. Just before graduation, he married his first wife, Vivian "Buster" Burey. Their twenty-five year marriage ended with her death from cancer in 1955.

A better understanding and knowledge of African-American history might do you some good.


Also, your suggestions after Bernie are flat-out un-democratic (small d). Are you really suggesting that the will of the people be ignored?