Ailantha
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Dear Bernie Sanders, Will You Please Go Now?

6/8/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
      The time has come . 
      The time is now.
      Just go, go, go, we don't care how, Bernie, but it would be nice if you went with grace, positivity,  and a proffered acknowledgement that the Democratic presidential nomination now belongs to Hillary Clinton.
      Because in the end Hillary did win the primaries fair and square.  She won the popular vote and the delegates awarded based on the votes of the people.  Even if there were no super delegates involved - super delegates being those who can vote for whomever they want at the Democratic Convention regardless of how the popular vote went - she'd have won, because if super delegates didn't exist she'd have needed only 2026 pledged delegates to win the nomination (see reference below).  By last night she had won 2196 pledged delegates to your 1866.     
     So, you see, Bernie, the super delegate system was not in fact rigged to Hillary. 
     And yet after all your complaining about super delegates overruling the voice of the people, now that you've lost you insist that the election isn't over because, you say, there's still a chance that the super delegates who've pledged to Hillary - and who are not required to (but usually opt to) represent the voice of the people - might change their minds and come over to you and give you enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination.   In other words, you seem to have no problem with the super delegate system overruling the popular vote if you could get that system to work for you.  In other words, Bernie, you are now the one who's attempting to rig the system in your favor.
       Not cool, Bern. 
       When Hillary lost to Obama 8 years ago - and in an even  much closer race than yours and hers this time  around - she graciously conceded and called on her supporters to now give their support to Obama for the good of our country.  Your current behavior, Bernie,  is more in line with the woman in the Bible story who, if she couldn't have the baby in dispute, preferred to have King Solomon cut the baby  in half rather than hand it over to it's rightful mother (1 Kings 3:16-28). 
       So what do you say, Bernie?  Would you rather see our country thrown to the dogs than to hand Hillary her rightful victory?
        Or is there maybe some other dynamic going on with you?
        Bernie Sanders, years ago you left the noise, conflict, and social turbulence of New York City to settle in peaceful, quiet, white, affluent Burlington Vermont where you were elected mayor.  Then you moved on to Congress where you were happy to let your fellow representatives duke it out while you stood stubbornly off by yourself on your principles and accomplished more or less nada.  
             Nobody had heard of you before you came seemingly out of nowhere and jumped into the presidential race.   Could it be possible that on some level, conscious or unconscious, your real reason for staying in your lost-cause of a race is because after all your years of anonymity now  you can't bring yourself to give up the power, exhilaration, and  roar of the adoring crowd? 
       Best to go now, Bernie, before our love curdles.

     Reference:
     http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/06/08/what-the-democratic-race-would-look-like-with-different-superdelegate-rules.cnn/video/playlists/bernie-sanders-2016/

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
    Picture
    ​"Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
    Picture
    "Tropical Depression" 
    by Patti Liszkay
    ​Buy it on Amazon:   
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTPN7NYY

    Archives

    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    RSS Feed

    I am a traveler just visiting this planet and reporting various and sundry observations,
    hopefully of interest to my fellow travelers.

    Categories

    All


























































































  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact