A plea for reason: Regardless of your favored candidate, vote Democratic this fall!

[azurnoir]

27. SCOTUS gave us Bush in 2000 it would be more accurate to say Perot gave us Clinton 1992

However Bernie's not running as 3rd party candidate, something that some here find so very frustrating as illustrated by the "not one of us" type posts that still persist

That said I think you not quite get what drives Bernie's supporters that becomes obvious by the dismissiveness of this statement

" Voting on 'principle' or whatever passes for it"

So I'll help you here what we will be left with a choice between 2 candidates who are basing their respective campaigns on racial divides, both of whom are being helped by a dose of the ethnic/religious bigotry that still exists in this country

Moreover for Bernie supporters the real issue is economic and the ruling class in this country - the robber barons if you will, so if Bernie does not win the nomination we will be left with the choice of which robber do we vote for the one with a D after their name or an R -here's the problem we've been falling in line and voting for the D for over 30 years now, and yes we get some progress on a few hot button social issues when enough noise and money goes into it, and opinion polls show it's become politically safer for them to mouth they are for it, than it is to continue to mouth against, economically and class wise we get zip nothing nada and the class divide only deepens-rinse lather repeat or a bigot who is running on a repulsive platform based on nationalism of the worst sort, so what to do, either way we lose in the long run.

and while i'm here I'll add this we keep hearing about the Berniebro's the angry young whitemen who support Bernie because their privilege is being challenged- Bernie MNN win should put that to rest and what should worry is that there aa candidate drawing angry young whitemen who feel they have no privilege and that is Donald Trump