I am proud of Bernie Sanders and I am proud of his supporters.
Win or Lose, I think Bernie Sanders has been the best thing for politics in a long, long time. If we are lucky enough to squeek this one through and get him nominated it would be absolutely amazing.
I am so proud of people who support Bernie both inside DU and out because I feel we are the people that really want to improve this country and make it a better place for everyone.
Last Tuesday really did sting and I am kind of at a loss of what to say. I think we were all hoping for another "Michigan Moment" where he defied all odds to come out on top. That did not happen.
However, wasn't the outcome on Tuesday what we all really expected? I am so surprised the Clinton Camp and the MSM jumped on Tuesday as some sort of clarion moment where everything changed.
Nothing fundamentally changed.
Bernie Sanders has always been a very long shot and still is.
What's really different?
Nothing.
It is sad to say I still do believe (and have said this for a while so don't lose heart) that Hillary Clinton is very likely to win the nomination. The DNC and prime movers within the Democratic Party have rigged this election to tilt heavily in favor of someone they have wanted to be President for a very long time for a variety of reasons (some good, yay broken glass ceiling) and many bad (doubling down on our corrupt and, I believe, immoral system).
But I want nothing more than for Sanders to challenge the system and have our voice heard right up until the convention, and even beyond.
We are part of a large group of Americans that actually see the fundamental problems in our society and aim to actually fix them. I cannot give Republican and Clinton Camp supporters the same credit.
Until now, we haven't had a candidate to rally around in the same way we have with Bernie. I hope he's not a once in a lifetime candidate. But we have to admit, he is getting up there in age and we will need other leaders to pick up the torch.
We need leaders to transform the Democratic Party or recreate a more viable, more correct, more moral, version of it. Many of us can't vote for a Party which has, for all intents and purposes, has sided time and again with those that literally hurt and sometimes kill Americans. I do believe we have been "taken over" by corporate interests with a veneer of "social justice" that sugar coats a lot of the pain.
It has been an uphill and unfair battle all the way. The whole Primary system, from the states chosen to go earlier (which by demographics heavily favor Clinton beyond measure) to a rigged media to a rigged debate system has been almost a farce.
I say almost a farce as it's not quite total lampoonery but when you stand back and look at the institutional and systemic favoritism given to Clinton it's hard to take serious. But we have always known that.
But this movement doesn't end with one Primary and it doesn't end with one election.
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