2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: No, I don't think Hillary and the dem establishment can put the party back together again [View all]AgerolanAmerican
(1,000 posts)If Sanders capitulated and said "go support this establishment candidate", 90% of his supporters would tell him to take a hike.
He's in the position he is in because he is the best available person to represent a broad based grassroots movement. Telling us to support the establishment would abdicate that representative function. He would only hurt his own standing without helping the establishment at all.
The way this party gets back together is with a defeat of the establishment, and a capitulation to our demands that our representatives represent us - not big money donors - and serve us as the public servants they claim to be.
Look at what is happening on the GOP side. Their badly-fractured party is coming together over a defeat of their establishment. They support him no matter how crazy and weird he is because he is not the establishment that f-ed them over time and time again.
If we want unity, that's the template to achieve it.