Open Alphabetic Lineament To Senator Bernie Sanders

Dear Bernie,

I was ane of the gullible liberals who idea too vehemently argued for months on goal that you lot could win the Democratic Primaries fair too square. After all if a rookie billionaire alongside cipher political credibility too a spotted yesteryear could win the Republican nomination, why wouldn’t an unimpeachable the United States of America Senator last able to produce the same inwards my party? We both know the answer(s) to that, don’t we, Senator? You chose the high route when all was said too done, but was that the correct road? I receive got no uncertainty that your entire career too this ill-fated drive inwards item were driven yesteryear a wishing to elevator the exploited, the downtrodden, the poor too the excluded to their rightful house inwards a authorities of the people, yesteryear the people, for the people. In which case, Senator, you lot are instantly squandering the chance of a lifetime to alter history inwards a agency no ane else can, or always could, or volition always last able to fifty-fifty try.

You may last telling yourself that in ane lawsuit you lot failed to win from the outside, the smart selection was to deal from the inside. You may last taking cracking pride from that lefty progressive platform you lot managed to negotiate. When was the terminal fourth dimension whatsoever President felt hamstrung or guided inwards whatsoever agency yesteryear the political party platform? Ninety-nine pct of Earth doesn’t know what the political party platform looks like. It’s an empty achievement, too you lot likely know that. There volition last no deal for fifteen. There volition last no costless college. There volition last no extended menage unit of measurement leave, no pay equity too sure no unmarried payer wellness care. And at that spot volition last no goal inwards sight to the steady hemorrhage of middle degree jobs to slave task countries. But I’m sure you lot know this too, Senator.

Nobody is going to bother the venerable Wall Street institutions hanging or too so our collective cervix similar a rock. Nobody is going to lose slumber over the Silicon Valley technology scientific discipline cartel, which is rapidly acquiring to a greater extent than ability than the biggest banking concern always had. And at that spot volition last war, Senator Sanders, equally sure equally I am sitting hither too you lot are sitting there, at that spot volition last war. With a piffling flake of luck, it volition last an old fashioned mutual frigidity state of war that volition farther impoverish the patch too strip citizens of fifty-fifty to a greater extent than civil rights. If luck runs out, too it will, Americans volition in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than give-up the ghost inwards some God forsaken desert alongside an unpronounceable name, to “protect our freedom”.

How produce you lot feel, Senator, when you lot sentinel the swarm of millionaires too billionaires coalescing or too so the candidate you lot endorsed? Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, Mark Cuban too instantly Meg Whitman, are all praising your onetime opponent too promising to fund her campaign. Heck, fifty-fifty the Koch Brothers seem sympathetic to her cause, non to elevate the deluge of conservative purists crossing political party lines spontaneously or afterward beingness actively wooed yesteryear the Democratic candidate running on the most progressive platform ever. Your preferred candidate said that our get is her cause, too this must last why hedge-fund managers rewarded her alongside something similar $50 ane K 1000 inwards drive “donations” (so far). Do you lot intend whatsoever of these powerful interests gives a rat’s donkey close our political revolution?

Have you lot noticed, Senator, how the simply places where your shout out is yet spoken are Trump rallies? The much touted shift to the left inwards the Democratic Party ended abruptly when the telly cameras were powered off inwards the Wells Fargo arena inwards Philadelphia. The impressive array of professional person exploiters of humanity, too the planet nosotros last in, who are stepping all over each other to swear allegiance to the Democratic candidate is matched simply yesteryear the unbridled enthusiasm of the hired guns of the corporate media. There volition last no drive finance reform, no goal to fossil fuel indecency, no goal to fracking too drilling too pillaging too slashing too burning, but it volition all accept house alongside the utmost observe for stately decorum. Was this your vision for our hereafter dorsum inwards Apr of 2015, Senator? It wasn’t ours.

Our $27 voices receive got been silenced when you lot decided to suspend yours, too frankly Senator Sanders, I don’t intend that conclusion was solely upwards to you. This was non a regular principal flavour where ane tin can barely tell the divergence betwixt campaigns earlier they all merge into ane bland compromise. As you lot said many times, this was indeed a revolution. Yes, you lot sparked the flame, Senator, but nosotros ready the fire. It wasn’t yours to produce equally you lot delight with, too you lot were sure non empowered to deliver “your supporters” to the subjugation of the status-quo. To seat it inwards price everybody understands these days, nosotros funded this revolutionary corporation alongside our difficult earned coin too our feet, too you, Senator, had a fiduciary responsibleness to your shareholders.

We lost ane battle too you lot conceded the war. We can’t undo the loss, but you lot tin can undo the concession to some extent. You tin can at to the lowest degree testify to brand things correct for people whose $27 investment represents a week’s worth of food. On a personal level, you lot receive got much to lose if you lot produce this, but when you lot fan the flames of revolution (even a political one), personal sacrifice is baked into the cake. You should receive got known that, Senator, too you lot should receive got made peace alongside that from the start. I receive got to confess hither that I am non solely surprised yesteryear your decision. Your acquiescing response to subtle too non too so subtle efforts to coopt this political revolution, yesteryear what I consider unsavory actors, was inwards my heed a harbinger of things to come. And things came.

I’m non shout out for you, Senator, to leave of absence at that spot too drive for “the other” movement propped upwards yesteryear millions of minor donations from people who can’t afford to donate either. I am shout out for you lot to recognize inwards your pump of hearts that the route of our political revolution does non larn through some other Clinton administration. I am shout out for you lot to recognize that viii to a greater extent than years of keeping people down, piece fraudulently posing equally their champion, are far to a greater extent than devastating for our revolution, this nation, too the globe at large, than a Trump direction could always be. These are desperate times for most of us, too so I am shout out for you lot Senator Sanders, to shout out upwards that you lot receive got a responsibility, nay, a duty, to stand upwards up ane to a greater extent than fourth dimension too assist us proceed hope alive, Sir.