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Related: About this forumSanders Supporters Seek Ways to Keep ‘Bernie’ Movement Alive
Election presents choice they had hoped to avoid: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump
By Peter Nicholas
June 19, 2016 5:30 a.m. ET
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CHICAGOWith visions of what-might-have-been, the liberal activists behind Bernie Sanderss campaign commiserated over his loss to Hillary Clinton and plotted ways to keep the Bernie movement alive now that the candidate is exiting the presidential stage.
At a weekend-long conference, they were thinking through their role in a general election that presents a choice they had hoped to avoid: Mrs. Clinton or presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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Mr. Sanders wasnt at the conference dubbed The Peoples Summit. But the Vermont senator was everywhere all the same. Millennials walked through the halls wearing Sanders T-shirts bearing sketches of his receding hairline. In panels, participants dissected the campaigns rise and fall and talked wistfully about how close Mr. Sanders came to vanquishing Mrs. Clinton.
The conferences lead organizer is National Nurses United, one of the Sanders campaigns most zealous backers. The approximately 3,000 attendees included socialists, union officials, community organizers and college students. Together, they represent the wing of the Sanders coalition that is the least enthused about coalescing behind the Clinton campaign.
Its a terrible place we find ourselves in, said Becky Bond, a former adviser to Mr. Sanderss campaign, in a session titled Understanding our Movement Moment.
The best a Clinton presidency would produce is a nation slightly worse than it is under Obama, Ms. Bond said.
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Rosario Dawson, an actress who attended the conference, said in an interview she has no use for any pro-Clinton messages crossing her cellphone: If she wants our vote, then she needs to go get it, said Ms. Dawson, who campaigned for Mr. Sanders. We didnt register to vote and phone bank and canvass for her for a reason.
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Nina Turner, a Sanders supporter and former Ohio state senator, said that even though she has been a lifelong Democrat, a third party might not be bad for this country.
Lets shake it up, Ms. Turner said in an interview. I want to see the Democratic Party live up to our values. And if we refuse to, then we need something to shake us up.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/sanders-supporters-seek-ways-to-keep-bernie-movement-alive-1466328604
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Them Hassle-lines and the Fart-a-thon ! Yeah keeping it alive. Going out with style.
Cha
(305,118 posts)kjones
(1,059 posts)That's one Revolution I want NO PART OF.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,919 posts)Just in case.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...to go have a "movement."
I'll devote it to Back Bench Bernie!
PEACE!
Walk away
(9,494 posts)stopbush
(24,630 posts)Last gasps from the armchair revolution that never got off the ground.
Oh, and I did notice the delusion that Sanders "came close" to defeating Hillary. Yeah, falling 4-million votes short is really close.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Without run-off voting, and with the Republican party splitting, why would she advocate to any degree whatsoever for a 3rd party unless it's rightwing?
BootinUp
(48,902 posts)to believe that their enemy is "centrist" democrats. And they can't recognize a liberal when they see one. What they don't get is that liberals will sometimes vote centrist if its the only choice they got. So rather than make the liberal coalition larger so it can actually pass liberal policy, they spend their time trying to brainwash more people.
wysi
(1,514 posts)Go on then, hold your breath!