Hell no, I won’t stop expressing my opinion and I won’t declare a winner of the primary with half the votes yet to be cast. The mainstream media has been putting its thumb on the scale for Clinton throughout the campaign season and it’s no secret that Kos was a Clintonian from the get go. He’s ready to declare victory at half time, but the rest of the game will be played out. As any veteran of of this game knows, lots can change in politics in a very short time. When Kos famously declared that Bernie would never break 30%, we proved him wrong. And when Kos declares game over right when the primary map gets a lot more friendly to Bernie, we will prove him wrong again.
I am not a Democrat just for the sake of picking a team and then rooting for it regardless of what it does. That’s blind partisan patriotism. I’m a Democrat because they occasionally host the candidates that suit my ideology. I have the luxury of living in California, where I can always cast my vote for the candidate that I believe in and not hold my nose and vote for the least repugnant version of politics as usual. If I lived in a swing state, I would vote for Clinton, to oppose whomever the Republicans are running. But since I don’t live in a swing state, I will be voting for Bernie Sanders, whether he is on the ballot or whether I have to write his name in. To me, Hillary Clinton, even moreso than Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is the personification of everything wrong with establishment politics and I will continue to say so, even when she is ahead in the delegate count. Any site that restricts its members from voicing their political convictions is no site that I want to be part of.
Kos wants us to surrender to the electoral math. Well let me give Kos a basic math lesson: If it’s mathematically possible for Clinton to build up a 300 delegate lead, with half the states having voted, then it is, by definition, mathematically possible for Sanders to make up 300 (or more) delegates in the remaining half. I don’t deny that, IF THINGS CONTINUE ON THE CURRENT TRAJECTORY, then Clinton wins. But, what Kos ignores is that the whole point of running a campaign up until the actual voting happens is that, through the course of the campaign, THINGS CAN CHANGE. Even Debbie Wasserman Schultz has primary debates scheduled after March 15th. The primary season ends in June, not March.
And why did Kos pick March 15th? Because that’s the last day in a long time that Clinton is going to win a state. After March 15th, Sanders is likely to win every state for a month straight.
On March 22nd, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah will vote. Sanders will win.
On March 26th, Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington will vote. Sanders will win.
On April 5th, Wisconsin will vote. Sanders will win.
On April 9th, Wyoming will vote. Sanders will win.
This gives Sanders several weeks of uninterrupted state victories to change the course of this race before the big determinative contests in the northeast. On April 19, New York will vote. This will be followed by elections in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Only a decisive Clinton victory in these states would give her an insurmountable delegate advantage. If, by then, the demographic patterns of this fluid race shift and Sanders wins New York, he will likely win the nomination. March 15th is half time. Clinton will be well ahead, but the game will be far from over.
So, on March 16th, I am going post a diary entitled: Hillary Clinton Represents Everything Wrong With Establishment Politics. If that’s all it takes to get kicked out of the Kos community, then I’ve found out where I don’t belong.