This is an editorial from a Washington Post writer republished in the Chicago Sun Times on how Sanders needs to come to the reality which most of us dealing in reality have already come to.
There have been so many comments and so many diaries written by Clinton Supporters on how things are and why at this point Bernie is a detriment to the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The editorial below just lays it on the line and hits all the points Clinton and her supporters have been saying all along. Clinton and her supporters deferred to Bernie on this site and in the campaign so as not to alienate Bernie supporters. Basically Hillary supporters went into hiding to escape the nasty vitriol spewed against our candidate. Now I wish we had pushed back harder because some Bernie supporters felt privileged and were in their own little bubble acting like Bernie and Bernie alone was the Saviour. An excerpt from the editorial below:
But the truth is that Sanders does not deserve a movement, and his losing campaign does not deserve unusual deference and concessions. His tale about American oligarchy is simplistic, his policy proposals are shallow, his rejection of political reality is absurd, his self-righteousness and stubbornness are unbecoming. And, yes, he has lost. Here are some simple points worth repeating:
Below is what we have been saying for months but Bernies campaign kept telling his supporters there was a path to the nomination :
Sanders' path to the Democratic presidential nomination is essentially nonexistent. His only hope rests on convincing Democratic "superdelegates," nearly all of whom back Hillary Clinton, to swing his way. They will not do that. It is incoherent for Sanders to ask them to do so, given that he has attacked superdelegates as non-democratic actors in the nominating process and that Clinton will almost certainly end the cycle with more votes and more pledged delegates. It is also staggeringly arrogant that Sanders would think that superdelegates, the Democratic "establishment" sorts that he has spent the whole campaign cartoonishly attacking as tools of Wall Street, would be open to his entreaties.
So, enough with the reality-denial. Enough with the sanctimony. Enough with the attitude that only Sanders' agenda counts. Enough with the dream that his movement is broader and more powerful than it has proved to be at the ballot box. Enough with the paranoid conspiracy theorizing, the lazy attacks on the "establishment," the platitudes about the right to health care and the right to free college without realistic plans to realize them, the delegitimization of those who disagree, the scorning of practicality, the outrageous negativity about the state of the country and the simplistic narrative of evil 1 percenters who are to blame for everything that is wrong. Enough with the excuses for half-baked policy proposals (It is the direction, not the specifics, that matter!). Enough with the "political revolution."
Read the article on the other points but there are 3 main points :
1. delegate math.
2. Bernie saying superdelegates are undemocratic.
3. The process is rigged.
Donald J Trump is a clear and present danger, if you can't see that then we have to move forward without you.
Bernie needs to come to grips so some of his most ardent supporters can come to grips with the reality that Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton will be the presumed Democratic nominee on June 8th.