{"id":32036,"date":"2016-02-22T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32036"},"modified":"2016-02-22T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:55:55","slug":"what-will-bernies-followers-do-if-he-loses-the-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32036","title":{"rendered":"What Will Bernie&#8217;s Followers Do If He Loses The Nomination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Windsor, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 22, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>According to the NY times, Hillary Clinton is on the verge of locking<br \/>\nup the Democratic presidential nomination.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/delegate-count-leaving-bernie-sanders-with-steep-climb.html?_r=1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/delegate-count-leaving-bernie-sanders-with-steep-climb.html?_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such an occurrence will be a shocking blow to the millions of Sanders<br \/>\nfollowers who entertained the dream that his long-shot candidacy would<br \/>\nbe successful and provide them with the results he promised.<\/p>\n<p>If true, that leaves a very serious question: with so much time before the<br \/>\nactual election and such a deep dislike of Mrs. Clinton among most of the<br \/>\nSandernistas, what will they do now?<\/p>\n<p>They have a bunch of options that will depend in part on what Sanders<br \/>\nhimself does. They can form a third party and build for the future.<\/p>\n<p>They can back one of the existing third-party candidates like Jill Stein.<br \/>\nThey can call for a boycott. They can support that part of the Trump<br \/>\ncampaign that is anti-establishment like 9\/11 Truth, audit the Fed and<br \/>\na sane foreign policy, i. e. work with Russia and no more stupid wars.<\/p>\n<p>They can also withdraw and either drop out or just wait for 2020, having<br \/>\nmade their point.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they can hold their nose and vote for Hillary, despite the fact<br \/>\nthat she represents so much of what they hate including her Neo-con<br \/>\nforeign policy record, Wall Street connections and scandal-ridden career.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a woman: that means they can make &#8220;herstory&#8221; by electing the first<br \/>\nfemale president like they did with making Obama the first black president.<br \/>\nBut what did that get them except more of the same and despair for the<br \/>\nfuture rather than what they expected: &#8220;Hope and Change&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>It is far too early to predict with so many rapidly changing factors. One<br \/>\nthing will be sure to happen and that is recrimination against Sanders for<br \/>\nbeing so passive.<\/p>\n<p>He missed countless opportunities to go for the jugular against such a<br \/>\nvulnerable candidate as Hillary. He started off badly in the first debate when<br \/>\nhe gave her a pass on the e-mail scandal. Rather than sticking the dagger in<br \/>\non that, Benghazi and her feeble record of countless foreign policy failures<br \/>\nas Secretary of State, he decided to play nice and bemoan the media&#8217;s focus on<br \/>\nher potentially criminal e-mails. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31925\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31925<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can bet a Donald Trump or any other Republican nominee will not be so<br \/>\nkind. Moreover, Sanders failed to complain loudly about all the funny business<br \/>\nin Iowa and Nevada with her campaign tactics and the vote count. Instead of<br \/>\ntagging her with the cheat label and branding her as completely untrustworthy<br \/>\nto lead the Dems in November, he caved in to his outsider status for fear of<br \/>\nruffling the feathers of the party faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders also had a unique opportunity to play the blame game aggressively<br \/>\nagainst the Bush team and less directly against Hillary for the Iraq War with the<br \/>\nresulting mess that followed in its wake. Instead he let that issue be preempted<br \/>\nby the Republican outsider, Donald Trump, who proceeded to exploit it so<br \/>\npowerfully that he dispatched the lame Jeb to the sidelines, likely ending one<br \/>\nof the pillars of recent Republican domination&#8212;the Bush family&#8212; to the dustbin<br \/>\nof history.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of appealing to the millions of those who doubt the official narrative of<br \/>\n9\/11 by joining the few Congressmen who supported release of the 28 redacted<br \/>\npages of the Senate Intelligence Report on 911, he chose to remain silent on<br \/>\nthat critical issue and again allowed Trump to capture it from him.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains: what will Sanders&#8217; followers do in the days ahead as<br \/>\nhis quest falls far short, his promises evaporate into thin air and the hard reality<br \/>\nof an ugly political landscape smacks up against their idealism and decency?<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for them, it looks like we are about to find out!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31966\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31966<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44271.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44271.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/investmentwatchblog.com\/trump-insider-trump-will-audit-the-fed\/\">http:\/\/investmentwatchblog.com\/trump-insider-trump-will-audit-the-fed\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotrising.com\/2016\/02\/20\/hillary-6-out-of-6-coin-tosses-won-in-iowa-and-now-clinton-wins-precinct-with-lucky-ace\/\">http:\/\/patriotrising.com\/2016\/02\/20\/hillary-6-out-of-6-coin-tosses-won-in-iowa-and-now-clinton-wins-precinct-with-lucky-ace\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usuncut.com\/politics\/the-nevada-caucus-is-a-complete-fiasco\/\">http:\/\/usuncut.com\/politics\/the-nevada-caucus-is-a-complete-fiasco\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31862\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31862<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31545\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31545<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}