2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What time will Obama endorse Clinton tomorrow? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)when I thought he might end up as just a spoiler, leaving everyone else to try to undo his damage, but he is saying that we must defeat Trump, so I believe he will end up, as Algernon says, "generally cooperative."
His idea of "a high note," though, is going to be more push, push, pushing the party farther left if he can. Not going out so much as moving to a next stage.
He may concede soon, and of course that'd be nice, but I'm inclined to believe he means just what he says: That he's in through the convention, as he puts it, or that he's going to try to overset the majority vote as I put it.
He won't have to run for senate again for 4 years in any case--if he even does. (He'll be 78 and it's a 6-year-term.) So I also doubt concerns about reelection will shape his decisions.
All in all, I'm mostly expecting to be irritated and probably occasionally angry for some weeks still. Feel free to prove me wrong, Bernie.
Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.
If you can't afford to take care of your veterans , then don't go to war. - Bernie Sanders
(If this man had the simple competence to understand liberals and radicals in and out of office are on the same side of these issues and to put that force to work, imo he'd probably be our nominee.)