The myth is that there was a progressive candidate. In the breadth and unlikelihood of their coming to fruition Sanders' promises were as probable as Drumpf's promises to his nazis. Obama was a progressive but only in his person. He was a black man who won the white house. That accomplished he found out that getting anything through the collection of shits that made up the congress - mainly republicunts but some turds were democrats too - was incredibly difficult.
On one side of the current equation is the winner of the race to the extreme right. He started out in a Klown Kar with 16 other assholes and demonstrated that he was the biggest and brashest asshole of them all. He won by telling idiots that their lot in life was someone elses' fault and not their own. On the other side is Hillary Clinton who is a rather boring centrist.
She has to be carried along by the weight of public opinion but the point is that she will go - as opposed to the republicunts who will do whatever possible to maintain the status quo.
Had Sanders won his legislative plan would have foundered on the same rocks that Obama's did. Many of his 'supporters' would have blamed him for failing to get his free college through even though it would have been the intransigence of the republicunt congress which stopped it.
So when Sanders tells his supporters to support Clinton he fully understands that he is taking the next best choice. I'll dismiss Johnson and Stein. They are irrelevancies. Drumpf is a danger to everything that Obama did manage to get through and let's remember that some of his primary social issues were the result of 5-4 decisions on the Supreme Court. Sanders knows what Drumpf court nominees would mean. He may not agree with Clinton but he sure as shit knows that she is no where near the threat that Drumpf represents. I regard it as extremely unlikely that the Dems will get control of the house. The best that can be hoped for is a working majority of the senate. That may be enough to control the Tea Bagging assholes... at least until 2018 when the dems go back to sleep.
On one side of the current equation is the winner of the race to the extreme right. He started out in a Klown Kar with 16 other assholes and demonstrated that he was the biggest and brashest asshole of them all. He won by telling idiots that their lot in life was someone elses' fault and not their own. On the other side is Hillary Clinton who is a rather boring centrist.
She has to be carried along by the weight of public opinion but the point is that she will go - as opposed to the republicunts who will do whatever possible to maintain the status quo.
Had Sanders won his legislative plan would have foundered on the same rocks that Obama's did. Many of his 'supporters' would have blamed him for failing to get his free college through even though it would have been the intransigence of the republicunt congress which stopped it.
So when Sanders tells his supporters to support Clinton he fully understands that he is taking the next best choice. I'll dismiss Johnson and Stein. They are irrelevancies. Drumpf is a danger to everything that Obama did manage to get through and let's remember that some of his primary social issues were the result of 5-4 decisions on the Supreme Court. Sanders knows what Drumpf court nominees would mean. He may not agree with Clinton but he sure as shit knows that she is no where near the threat that Drumpf represents. I regard it as extremely unlikely that the Dems will get control of the house. The best that can be hoped for is a working majority of the senate. That may be enough to control the Tea Bagging assholes... at least until 2018 when the dems go back to sleep.
