{"id":39820,"date":"2016-06-09T06:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39820"},"modified":"2016-06-09T06:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:49:47","slug":"green-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39820","title":{"rendered":"Green Bernie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Windsor, CA<br \/>\nJune 8, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>The following &#8220;Open Letter To Bernie&#8221; from Dave Lindorff explains why<br \/>\nSenator Sanders must continue his presidential campaign as the nominee<br \/>\nof the Green Party: <a href=\"http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/3190\">http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/3190<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders made a social contract with the 10+ million voters that worked<br \/>\ntheir hearts out to support his efforts to win the Democratic nomination<br \/>\nagainst Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed in that task and having lost that battle, Lindorff shows how Sanders<br \/>\ncan still win the war against the political corruption that Hillary symbolizes.<\/p>\n<p>He can renege on his original promise to back the winner of the primary by<br \/>\nclaiming it was fixed in favor of the former Secretary of State. He can also<br \/>\nadopt Lindorff&#8217;s suggestion that he made an egregious error underestimating<br \/>\nthe seriousness of Hillary&#8217;s various scandals including her private e-mail server<br \/>\nand the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has already begun that process and will surely be unrelenting<br \/>\nin his attacks on his future rival. Sanders can pre-empt that issue to the extent<br \/>\nthat his basic decency makes him a far more attractive figure to run the country<br \/>\nat this critical time than the abrasive Trump or corrupt Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>The nation is facing its biggest crisis since the Great Depression. This election<br \/>\ncycle has already seen dramatic changes. With 5 months left before voters go<br \/>\nto the polls on November 8th, continuing turmoil and uncertainty will be fixtures<br \/>\non the political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is in a unique position to play his hand against these two deeply flawed<br \/>\nrivals. But he must step up boldly and embrace this opportunity in the ways<br \/>\nLindorff and many others have suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Abandoning the Democratic Party and signing on as a Green will expand the<br \/>\nbase of that third party and institutionalize it so that it can compete in this<br \/>\nelection and in a significant way in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>This is the minimum contribution Sanders must make to sustain the revolution<br \/>\nhe has helped start. As Green Bernie, he can make both candidates, both<br \/>\nparties and all of Washington feel the Bern! <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36906\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36906<\/a><\/p>\n<p><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-39820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820","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=39820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}