{"id":39894,"date":"2016-06-10T05:57:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39894"},"modified":"2016-06-10T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:07:19","slug":"feel-the-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39894","title":{"rendered":"Feel The&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Betrayal!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Windsor, CA<br \/>\nJune 9, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders will endorse Hillary Clinton for President in the near future.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/general96\/sandersclintendor.htm\">http:\/\/rense.com\/general96\/sandersclintendor.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He will publicly justify this selling out by pointing to the evil Donald Trump as<br \/>\nthe reason why he must back the profoundly corrupt former First Lady.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so will constitute a betrayal of his core constituents and the endorsement<br \/>\nof the pro-Wall Street, pro war candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Sanders knew from the start of his campaign that he would play the<br \/>\nrole of constraining his supporters by muting his criticism of Mrs. Clinton is<br \/>\nsomething only he can know.<\/p>\n<p>But by failing to hone in on her long record of scandals, her history of backing\u00a0wars of aggression, her fraudulent family charitable foundation and her ostensible\u00a0criminal misuse of a personal e-mail server, Sanders muffled the level of support\u00a0he could garner that prevented him from dispatching her to the political dustbin where she belongs.<\/p>\n<p>When he steps over the line and finally says yes to Clinton&#8217;s presidential ambitions,\u00a0he will sever the trust and life-line of integrity he created between himself and his\u00a0millions of decent followers.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing a finger at the abrasive Mr. Trump and saying he must be stopped is one<br \/>\nthing. Endorsing a war criminal and pathological liar is quite another.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what one thinks of <em>The Donald<\/em>, Hillary&#8217;s record is clear for all to see.<br \/>\nIn a year of difficult choices for many, Sanders decision to cave in to the pressure<br \/>\nto &#8220;unify the party&#8221; may well prove decisive in securing the White House for Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>But as Stephen Lendman and many others have pointed out, this will be an act of<br \/>\nbetrayal and cynical self-promotion by Sanders who will be seen as merely paying<br \/>\nlip-service to his agenda of fairness.<\/p>\n<p>Most significant for many of us is the complete transformation of the Democratic<br \/>\nParty from the anti-war party of the Viet Nam era led by George McGovern and<br \/>\nEugene McCarthy into the pro-war party of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and now<br \/>\nHillary Clinton: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44843.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44843.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many decent folks will be comfortable with this move by Sanders because they<br \/>\nare blinded by hatred for Trump. But if it is fascism they are worried about, all<br \/>\nthey need to do is remind themselves of Hillary&#8217;s record of war-making and her<br \/>\nauthoritarian nature: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39314\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39314<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With NATO pushing &#8220;humanity towards WWIII&#8221; it is amazing that Trump is somehow<br \/>\nthe &#8220;peace candidate&#8221; in 2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44833.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44833.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanders has had a chance to have an impact far beyond a few meaningless planks<br \/>\nin the Democratic Platform or a few minor policy changes should he become part of<br \/>\nher future Administration: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39820\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39820<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has had a chance to make history. If he forgoes that unique opportunity and<br \/>\nembraces the sordid person of Hillary Clinton, he will align himself with everything<br \/>\nhe said he was against and betray those who thought he was sincere in his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Countless millions will feel the betrayal: how that plays out in the general election<br \/>\nwill be interesting to see. With the Clinton team ready to &#8220;weaponize&#8221; the poor and<br \/>\nlaunch a virulent assault on Trump, Sanders choice will likely be seen by future<br \/>\ncommentators as having leant aid and comfort to her pro-war Administration, the<br \/>\n99% be damned!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39872\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39872<\/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-39894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39894","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=39894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}