Before today culminates people need to understand the why
There is an end point, and I know it will be lost on many and hard to accept for many, but I really would ask that Bernie supporters read this out.
I am voting Bernie because he is more right on the issues and because he, unlike 99% of other elected democrats stakes progressive positions unwavering.
I switched my support from Hillary to him shortly after he announced knowing he was a VERY long shot to win the nomination.
I knew this because I knew why Donald Trump was a VERY real threat, and Hillary was most likely to win the D nomination.
It isn't about Trump, and it isn't about Hillary and it sure as heck has next to nothing to do with DWS, as worthless as she is.
It because this country is flat fucking stupid.
Fat, distracted and stupid.
It isn't because of Trump, it isn't because of Hillary, it certainly is not because of DWS, as worthless as she is.
The information is out there, it is pretty damn obvious.
It does not take all kinds of research, it mostly is simple common sense.
People CHOOSE, WILLINGLY, joyfully, to be uninformed.
Trump, Hillary, DWS aren't going into voting booths and putting guns to people's heads to vote for who they want. Heck, the republican establishment is trying to desperately find ways to get their pods to NOT vote for Trump.
I had about an 8 year period where I was very active in local politics, and still work my poll, and what I learned is people have a lot of VERY odd reasons for voting for who they vote for. It is ALWAYS their vote, not some grand conspiracy making them vote, they CHOOSE to vote for who they vote for.
Bernie will not do well today for a lot of reasons.
It will NOT be because Hillary Clinton is some evil, vile creature.
Yes, she is warmed over, and the prototype of politicians as we know them.
People will vote for her because people are people. She has a name, and people "know" her. It really is that simple. There isn't a lot of thought put into it.
It just is the way people are.
But, it is important to understand the DEGREES of stupid.
Voting for Trump is FULL BLOWN, damn the torpedo's, straight ahead stupid.
I know people ginned themselves up into a do or die thing on our ticket, but voting Hillary is not THAT.
I know this might be hard to get, but the stupid here is not so much voting FOR Hillary as it is not voting for Bernie.
Yes, it is voting for "more of the same."
But, "more of the same" democrat is 1,000 times better than any R, frankly, and 100,000 better than the megalomaniac.
The point ...
Understand this is about the people of this country.
Whatever larger arching dynamics are at play, millions of people will vote THEIR vote.
Call it the lesser of evils or whatever.
But, when the dust settles if we can't get a hard charging progressive at the top of the ticket, it is self defeating to take our ball and go home because we gin ourselves up in some way to justify not doing our small part to make the best of a process that is driven by the STUPID of our friends, family and neighbors.
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different ideas of what progressive is. For us, anyone can be progressive and any organized actions with goals of advancing society are progressive. A conservative church membership can be progressive, and many often are.
On a national level, for over a century a large majority of Democrats have been progressive and party policies typically progressive. These days Democrats and the Democratic Party are strongly progressive. The Republican Party used to have a large progressive block, but these days the GOP is strongly anti-government, anti-progressivism.
Short version, it's the action one supports, not what group one belongs to or which candidate one supports, that determines whether one is progressive.
Proud Liberal here. 
by the media. Fear of this fear of that, Hillary has used that quite well. Then making people feel that their vote won't count, look at the voter turnout on the Democratic side. Then we add the fact that the two parties control the process and only allow their "people" to have any chance to win, it has worked on the Dem side, Bernie is not a democrat he is a socialist.......it's true, it's true. The Republicans are still fighting tooth and nail to deny Trump. IMO it all adds up in the end 
They estimate that as a percent of eligible voters, turn out was: 2000, 54.2%; in 2004 60.4%; 2008 62.3%; and 2012 57.5%. These were the same figures as given by the Center for the Study of the American Electorate.
BTW IMO the two main reasons Bernie has not caught on like Trump is because of his age and the dreaded Socialist label. My daughter is in High School and the teachers have been telling them to forget Bernie he can never win because he is a Socialist............. Propaganda.
I do too.
in the GE. Your entire op leads to that conclusion
Thing is the forces driving the anti-establishment wave aren't easily persuaded to vote HRC. I'm certainly not going to try to persuade anyone to vote for her in the GE.
Those of us who are sick of the status quo are becoming their own force. If Sanders loses, and then doesn't step up and form an Independent Party, I suspect someone else will (and yes I'm certain Sanders would hold off doing such a thing til after the election to give HRC a shot). Climate change will certainly play a huge role in driving towards that since neither party is willing to face the facts.
Pleas to return to the Dem Party are futile at this point no matter the SC threat (because there's also a percentage who believe HRC is such a corporatist moderate her SC selections will be just as bad as an R)
and "Some voters are stupid".
That is my experience thus far.
