Friends (and Bernie Bros, ha ha)...I knew today would be tough, but I have a feeling

[silvershadow]

it will be really tough. I hope the delegate counts are sufficient to stay in this thing. I think I'm going to stay off of DU most of today.

Does anyone have some advice for the forlorn?

[VulgarPoet]

1. Soon as I'm off work, I'm pouring a glass of whiskey and clearing out my ignore list.

Frank discussions are in order, because at this point, I'm out of anger. I want to know what makes them think, and see if I can't walk away with some new perspectives to think on for a little while.

The war of the head and the heart, and all that.

[HooptieWagon]

2. It won't be that bad.

Polls show him leading or close in 7 of the primaries, I'm sure he'll pull off at least 4. He'll face a delegate gap in Texas, cause it has so many, but the other states may cancel each other out. At the end of the day, he'll still be in the race, has plenty of money. And the primary season moves into more favorable states for him in the second half of March.

[silvershadow]

4. I hope you are right. To be honest, I was catnapping on the couch with the TV blaring in the

background. Maybe they got to me. lol

[mak3cats]

9. Turn the sound down on the TV and put on some good music instead...

...you'll still be able to watch the "tote boards."

And retrowire is always good as a pick-me-up!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280130893

[silvershadow]

10. Good post. Thank you. :) nt

[retrowire]

11. :D I love you too! :DDDD nt

[restorefreedom]

12. tv is the worst

i would recommend for tonight, either the young turks or bernie tv

msm will be shilling for hillary all night

[silvershadow]

7. Pour one for me! :) nt

[jillan]

3. It doesn't matter. Bernie will still be in the race tomorrow ----

If he has a bad day, we will just have to work harder tomorrow.

[silvershadow]

6. Whew. I had to read that a couple of times. At first, I read your headline as

he was going nowhere. Then I realized you meant he's in it for the long haul. Thanks for the comment. It is always nice to see a kindred political should with a huge post count.

[jillan]

13. Haha - you're right. I can see why you thought that. I changed it so everyone is clear....

I'm with Bernie for the long haul!

And I am thrilled to see the newer DUers who came here to support Bernie

[tk2kewl]

5. maybe this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280130874

[silvershadow]

8. Ok, that definitely helps. Thank you. nt

[RoccoR5955]

14. Like Bernie, I am from Brooklyn, NY

One of the toughest places on the planet.
If you look up the definition of tough in the dictionary, you will see a picture of Brooklyn. Flatbush to be exact. Yeah, we were both from the same neighborhood.
So it's gonna be tough. We can handle it!

[Peace Patriot]

15. Do your laundry, listen to Simon & Garfunkel, keep your life together...

...cuz this fight ain't over!

The American people have been screwed over many, many times, over the last half century...

Our best leaders assassinated...
Dragged into horrible wars against people who were not our enemies and posed no threat to us...
Our prosperity, created by worker productivity, looted...
Our "Commons" looted...
Our planet looted...
Our elections rigged...
Our Democratic Party leaders gone Corporate and, with the Clintons' "Crime Bill," fascist...
Millions homeless on the streets including many veterans...
Millions in prison for nothing--after Prohibition, the "war on drugs" should never have happened (Clintons leading the way on wrong policy again)...
Almost no one able to make a living without working themselves to early deaths (shocking figures on longevity of the middle class)...
Transglobal corporations about to loot the last of it: our sovereignty itself (TPP)...

And on and on. The screwing over we've suffered has been thorough. And it is NOT GOING TO BE EASY TO UNDO. The Bernie Sanders campaign is only the beginning. It has sparked an enormous revolution in peoples' thinking. Win or lose this round, once people start thinking and breaking through the brainwashing of the corpo-fascist media, this revolution will go the next step: a citizenry that believes in itself again, and that starts re-asserting our sovereignty as a people.

Irish poet William Butler Yeats said that history does not repeat itself exactly; it is more like a gyre, a spiral, on which certain themes keep coming back round in different ways, giving people an opportunity to improve themselves, their society and the human race, or not. That is what is happening right now in the USA. We have the opportunity to START a revolution, such as Yeats was involved in, in Ireland, that may take many decades to fulfill itself.

It would be fantastic if Sanders wins the nomination--by far the best candidate against Trump--so that this revolution "goes viral" instantly. Sanders will draw Independents and disgruntled Republicans by the droves (something Clinton simply cannot do). But if that doesn't happen, this profound revolution--a genuine peoples' revolution--will happen in another way. It just won't be led by the Democratic Party. (Lifelong Democrat here!)

And this nomination process itself is far from over. Sanders will win many delegates today and in the coming primaries, and will carry the fight to the convention. There, once again, no matter what happens, more people will be compelled TO THINK--about all the fundamentals that Sanders keeps reasserting, that they've never heard before on a national stage--rigged economy, rigged politics, rigged media, rigged elections.

Personally, I feel very good about the Sanders revolution. I'm old (70) and I've lived all of the above list of crimes against our people and other people, as I've seen our party deteriorate into a mere adjunct of the "military-industrial complex" and now the "prison-industrial complex." You'd think I would feel discouraged. I do not. The Sanders campaign is different from anything I've seen before. It is very deep and it is not going away.

Now go do your laundry. That's what I'm going to do. I've done what I can, for now. Got to get ready for work. (Yup, at 70--a hard, blue collar job; can't live on Social Security.)

And maybe, oh, Bob Dylan...the times, the times, the times they are changing...

[silvershadow]

16. Wow. Just wow. Thank you is all I can say.