This is not about the "beauty contest." I wish people would get that through their heads. [View all]

[Armstead]

Yeah we supporters think Bernie is great as a person. And yeah, we don't like Clinton. But more important is what each candidate represents.

Bernie Sanders did not come along in a vacuum and become a Pied Piper to millions of deluded followers.

This is Primal. The Berniebros ARE angry. And there is good reason.

This has been more than a campaign. It is a movement.

He is channeling and resonating with a massive discontent, anger frustration with the status quo, and what the elites and Big Bidness have done to America. And how Democratic Party has gone AWOL -- either from cowardice or corruption or some combination of the two....This has been building for decades among older people -- and for young people it reflects their response to the shitty conditions of the era they were born into.

But his campaign also represents HOPE. Not just for "free stuff." It is an optimistic belief that we can -- as a nation -- restore moral values, public ethics and compassion in out system. And thus come together to collectively build a better life for everyone.

And it extends beyond the hardcore Bernie supporters.The same instinct encompasses all the people who have said "I really love Bernie and agree with everything he stands for. But I have to be realistic and vote for Clinton. Sigh."

Well let me state this as plainly as I can. Obviously this is IMO.

If the Democratic Party continues the swing to the right that her candidacy has brought out -- and it HAS been a defensive swing to the right -- then don't blame us if the GOP gets its own shit together and continues to clean the clock of the Democrats.

And if Clinton wins -- well there's the whole question of whether she will be able to actually govern. Beyond the inevitable GOP gridlock, she will not be able to rally public support -- nor will the Democratic Party, as a whole.

It's happy, happy time for Clinton supporters tonight.

But if you continue to ignore and dismiss and distort what Sanders represents -- and who he represents -- you do so at the peril of the future of the Democratic Party....and America.

(Hopefully I won't regret typing this tomorrow.)