To those who STILL support Sanders: as I have previously posted, I agree with much

[The Magistrate]

49. You Get No Cigar For That, Sir

Those "problematic, slash and burn, anti-liberal supporters" reflect their leader like a mirror, and without them, 'Bernie' is nothing. He has rallied them up, and directs them against the 'Democratic Establishment', which he has sought to overthrow for decades. Do not make the attempt to claim that in 2016 'Bernie' did anything of value to assist Mrs. Clinton's campaign against the cheap thug Trump. He did not, he never gave her a full-throated endorsement, he never apologized for slanderous charges he and his supporters had leveled, and he made only perfunctory statements of support in speeches that were mostly just restatements of how much support he had received in the primary, and how his policies were the future of the Party. His occasional claims he will support Mr. Biden will, if put to the test, produce no better an outcome, no less tepid an effort. If 'Bernie' actually was willing to support Mr. Biden, he would be making a speech to that effect today, instead of filing for the New Jersey primary ballot.

The fact is, 'Bernie' is not campaigning for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. 'Bernie' is campaigning to overthrow the 'Democratic Establishment' which he is convinced is the chief obstacle to enactment of liberal and progressive policies in our country. He is probably sincere in his belief overthrowing the 'Democratic Establishment' is a necessary precondition to effective opposition to the likes of the cheap thug Trump and McConnell, but he is mistaken as the Weimar-era Communists who thought breaking the Social Democrat party was the necessary first step in opposing the reactionary and nationalist right in Germany. Their view was that when that was done, the working class would turn to the radical left for leadership, there being nothing else left they could look to for it. 'Bernie' holds a view quite similar to that, that if he can overthrow the 'Democratic Establishment' the working class of our country will turn to him as their beacon of leadership, which they would be doing already if not for the evil machinations of the 'Democratic Establishment' opposing him. But, as 'Bernie' said coming out of Nevada, he is coming for them, and they cannot stop him. He has made his true goal obvious enough, by his statements and his actions, and people owe 'Bernie' the courtesy of believing him.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."