"Forever committed, forever fighting, forever forward, Bernie Sanders"

[Donkees]

Excerpts:

This movement of ours — this political revolution — must continue. We cannot let all of the momentum we have achieved in the fight to transform America be lost. We will never stop fighting for what is right.

It is true that in terms of winning the Democratic nomination, we did come up short. But this election was never about me or any candidate. It was about the powerful coming together of millions of people to take their country back from the billionaire class. That was the strength of our campaign and it will be the strength of our movement going forward in the months and years ahead.

In the coming weeks, I will be announcing the creation of successor organizations to carry on the struggle that we have been a part of these past 15 months. I hope you will continue to be involved in fighting to transform America. Our goal will be to advance the progressive agenda that we believe in and to elect like-minded candidates at the federal, state and local levels who are committed to accomplishing our goals.

It is extremely important that we keep our movement together, that we hold public officials accountable and that we elect progressive candidates to office at the federal, state, and local level who will stand with us.

As part of that effort, we still have a tremendous amount of work left to do in the Democratic Rules Committee that will be meeting in the coming weeks. We have to enact the kinds of reforms to the Democratic Party and to the electoral process that will provide us the tools to elect progressive candidates, to allow new voices and new energy into the Party, and to break up the excessive power that the economic and political elites in the Party currently have. As with our fights on the platform committee, that will only be possible if we stand together.

You should know that I intend to be actively campaigning throughout this election season to elect candidates who will stand by our agenda. I hope to see many of you at events from coast to coast...

...Forever committed, forever fighting, forever forward,
Bernie Sanders

https://medium.com/BernieSanders/forever-forward-ee015b23547a#.vei4fav8p

[RoccoR5955]

1. Bernie is the definition of a class act.

He is a true Statesman. The first of the Millennium, the best in many decades, and hopefully not the last. Though I wonder with what supposedly serves "We the People" out there, are more like corporate lackeys, whether we will survive as a nation, let alone have statesmen.
This is the beginning of the Revolution. We may not win all the battles, but we SHALL win the war! It will take a very long time. Probably longer than my lifetime, and there have been people whose shoulders we stand on when we work for peace, justice, and environmentalism. The revolution will go on for generations, because until capitalism is eliminated and money is taken out of politics, the 1% will always want more, stealing from the rest of us.

[merrily]

3. I'm not sure how many more generations global warming will allow us.

[merrily]

2. I can't imagine that Bernie would object to posting the entire email, but rulez is rulez.

I received it, too. It was good!

[KPN]

4. Yes! It was an epic email ...

from a truly epic person!

[Segami]

5. kick