{"id":38982,"date":"2016-05-28T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38982"},"modified":"2016-05-28T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:44:35","slug":"its-time-for-sanders-to-go-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38982","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time For Sanders To Go Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nMay 28, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>With the inevitability of his campaign falling short of capturing the Democratic<br \/>\nnomination, Bernie Sanders should stop wasting his time attempting to get a<br \/>\nfew planks in the non-binding platform document at the Convention in July.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders should step boldly into new territory by first denouncing his corrupt<br \/>\nopponent for being the grifter she and her husband both are as evidenced by<br \/>\ntheir ability to amass nearly a quarter billion dollars since leaving office in 2000.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37675\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37675<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I wrote back in April, Bernie cannot morally endorse Hillary and must bolt<br \/>\nthe party. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36906\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36906<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dean Henderson and others feel the same way:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/23\/sanders-should-run-as-independent\/\">http:\/\/hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/23\/sanders-should-run-as-independent\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best way for Sanders to correct the enormous mistake he made during the<br \/>\nfirst debate when he failed to go for the jugular against Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s use of a<br \/>\nprivate e-mail server is to do so now like Trump is doing. He can best do that<br \/>\nas an Independent.<\/p>\n<p>As John Whitehead so eloquently describes, anti-war, anti-Wall Street and pro-liberty candidates seeking to run the American (police) state need not apply.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38952\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38952<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though Sanders is a big government (socialist), he is far more honest<br \/>\nthan either Hillary who is a proven pathological liar or Trump,<br \/>\nwhose business dealings are finally coming under closer<br \/>\nscrutiny by the likes of Webster Tarpley:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tarpley.net\/london-daily-telegraph-reveals-sleazy-dons-massive-trump-soho-tax-fraud\/\">http:\/\/tarpley.net\/london-daily-telegraph-reveals-sleazy-dons-massive-trump-soho-tax-fraud\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can Sanders win as an Independent? Who knows? But<br \/>\nwith such poor choices available to the electorate and a<br \/>\npolitical revolution to be won, the public good requires<br \/>\nanother option in addition to the limited choice of two that<br \/>\nour current duopoly system offers.<\/p>\n<p>As I have written for years, the United States needs a new<br \/>\npolitical party. This election cycle provides the perfect<br \/>\ntiming for that to happen and Sanders is in the best position<br \/>\nto take advantage of the current situation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38529\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=38529<\/a><\/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-38982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38982","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=38982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}