"Rome was not built in a day".

[kentuck]

And neither is a political movement. It would be sad to see the movement, that has been started by Bernie Sanders, disappear like smoke. In my opinion, that is the direction it is headed with the present campaign tactics and propaganda.

Instead of building a wall around what has already been built, it is time to open the doors and let more people into the movement. It is doubtful that Bernie will be running again four years from now. What happens then?

Hillary is not the only candidate that will need to consolidate her supporters if she is the nominee. Bernie will have the same problem. It is time for him to realize that fact.

If he wins California and happens to win the nomination, which is a very, very long shot, then he will need all the help he can get from Democrats and Independents that are not on his bandwagon at this time. It was wrong for him to criticize Hillary Clinton, the one time that Donald Trump was called to task. It was not classy, in my opinion.

If Bernie supporters wish to live another day, after this election, they need to start thinking like there is a tomorrow. There is a chance that Bernie may lose the nomination. What then? Do we continue to build the movement or do we pout in the corner and attack Hillary as the right-wing slips into the White House. It's time for some adult thinking, in my opinion.

[yourpaljoey]

1. Carpe Diem

The time is now, it may not come again.

[Gomez163]

2. If I was Hillary I would pick Elizabeth Warren as VP and then

refuse every Bernie demand and not let him speak at the convention unless he endorses Hillary.

[LibDemAlways]

8. How ridiculously petty. Elizabeth Warren is

not going to be Hillary's running mate. She's more popular than Hillary and considerably to her left. She woudn't want to share a ticket with her. Bernie has earned the right to speak at the convention and he will have a large number of delegates there. Only a fool would try to keep him off the stage with the world watching and his supporters needed in the fall, or do you think Hillary can win without them? Good luck with that.

[Gomez163]

13. Bernie has earned nothing. He has spent the past months trashing Hillary.

There is a price that has to be paid for that

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. It was not started by Sanders

this is American lack of historic memory, This started in the street of Seattle in 1999. and has been building ever since. It will not stop either.

[kentuck]

5. Bernie has built it much stronger...

in my opinion.

It would be a shame to see it disappear. Or relegated to "fringe' status. If Bernie doesn't win the nomination this time around, if he plays his hand right, then the movement will be much stronger 4 years from now and will be ready to assume leadership of this country, in my opinion. But, it can be torn down just as quickly.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Bernie is another marker in time

those who prevent peaceful revolutions, will engender violent ones. We are slowly moving towards that.

I predict the next 4 years will be interesting, regardless of who gets elected. And I do not mean that in a good way. Things are truly starting to boil over. Occupy should have woken the oligarchy and perhaps it did. Cops are even more militarized.

[kentuck]

9. I agree with your point about violent revolutions...

but I think we have a chance for a peaceful revolution, with Bernie, if we do not blow it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. We already did

well the oligarchy has protected itself, They made that choice. And I will pretend to vote on Tuesday, since I might as well have my vote count for Kasich, never mind I am not a republcians, or not count at all

Stalin said it best. It is not who votes who matters, but who counts them. So I shall pretend.

[lagomorph777]

11. Excellent JFK quote; hadn't seen it before.

And I do not wish to live in interesting times (again), but that is the hand we've been dealt. Last time around, the revolution was crushed by means of assassinations and riot police (or police riots). How shall we prepare?

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. It is from the Inagural

and how to prepare I don't know

[PufPuf23]

18. What may dampen any movment is more war. especially war

where the USA has actual competition.

Then the rules and atmosphere changes and what could be domestically is forgotten.

It is sobering to think that more war feeds into the oligarchy by any name.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Do not assume that your own lack of forward thinking is universal.

nt

[kentuck]

6. Neither will I assume that you are the expert on forward or backward thinking.

[Fumesucker]

14. Job zero in any potential Clinton administration will be making absolutely positively sure

Sure that Bernie Sanders or anyone remotely like him never ever scares the hell out of the establishment again.

Sometimes you only get one bite at the apple, I never expected to win in the first place.

[kentuck]

15. You make a good point.

But if Bernie does not win the nomination, what then?

[VulgarPoet]

16. Then the nation as a whole is, to put it frankly, screwed.

There will be no tomorrow for the movement in this party, because I'd bet my left leg that the DNC is trying to suss out how to keep another Sanders event from happening, and Tom Wheeler types are one in a billion. The world will perish in risen seas and nuclear war. Simple as that.

[Fumesucker]

17. I was taught that all prayers are answered

But the answer is usually "no".

The opposite of love isn't hate it's indifference, I'll go back to indifference, caring is too damn upsetting.

[VulgarPoet]

19. Mild disdain. Vague disgust. Pure indifference. eom