Sanders Didn’t Start The Fire, So Don’t Ask Him To Put It Out

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/26/sanders-didnt-start-fire-so-dont-ask-him-put-it-out

But Sanders, to the Clinton campaign’s frustration, is not bowing to this bit of conventional wisdom because the Sanders campaign is not a typical campaign. It is, to use Sanders’ oft-repeated word, a “revolution.”

Getting a geriatric democratic socialist into the White House was never the goal; it was a means to an end. Sanders is not the match that lit a progressive populist flame. The match was the unrest with Democratic Party politics that revealed itself in the Occupy movement, in the refusal of the people who turned out for President Obama in 2008 to rescue congressional Democratic candidates from the tea-party insurgency in 2010, and in the millions who rallied behind an effort to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren into the presidential campaign before Sanders felt the burn himself and picked up the mantle.

With this driving Sanders, there is every reason for him to continue his campaign into the convention despite what the delegate math says.

Clinton is not dealing with a candidate who can be bought off with a promise of a Cabinet post but with a movement that has a set of much tougher demands that cut to the core of where the party stands.

These are college graduates who see bank executives insulated from the consequences of their actions that led to the 2008 economic crash, but who themselves have no insulation from their crushing student debt loads. These are workers who wonder why corporations earning record-high profits (and paying obscenely low taxes on those profits) cannot afford to pay them a living wage for their work. These are the people who wonder why our health care debate is limited to shifting from one expensive Rube Goldberg maze to another, or why the economic security of senior citizens should be a bargaining chip in so-called “grand bargains” by politicians who have no idea what it is like to live on a Social Security check.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. IMO,

Election FRAUD and voter suppression demands a convention floor fight.

There's various screen shit in numerous states that show Bernie LOSING VOTES. The election is being stolen. We have proof of it.

THAT should be the battle he takes on. Without free and fair elections, why vote?

PEACE
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BERNIE