What's Bernie Sanders' next move?

[Zorro]

Bernie Sanders has plenty of sound reasons for continuing his presidential campaign, but now that Donald Trump is the apparent Republican nominee, he needs to make a change in tone.

Sanders still has a chance — albeit a vanishingly small chance — of winning more pledged delegates to the Democratic convention than Hillary Clinton. And polls show that Sanders' supporters want him to stay in the race, by a huge margin. “Bernie thinks he has a responsibility to the millions of people who have turned out for him,” his top strategist, Tad Devine, told me last week.

But the Sanders campaign was never solely about winning the Democratic nomination. The Vermont socialist's other goal was to build a progressive grass-roots movement and to push the Democratic Party to the left.

On that count, Sanders has mostly succeeded. His campaign has reawakened the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and forced Clinton to move leftward on economic issues including Social Security and trade.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-what-sanders-should-do-20160507-8-story.html

[EdwardBernays]

1. Why is the media so stupid?

"The Vermont socialist's other goal was to build a progressive grass-roots movement and to push the Democratic Party to the left.

On that count, Sanders has mostly succeeded. His campaign has reawakened the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and forced Clinton to move leftward on economic issues including Social Security and trade."

That's total nonsense.

If anyone ACTUALLY thinks that Clinton won't sign TPP or some equivalent - something she lobbied for and something many of the people bankrolling her campaign are desperate for - they're delusional.

All Bernie has done is convinced her to become a fake populist for a few months.

And that's nothing close to forcing "Clinton to move leftward on economic issues including Social Security and trade".

Lies aren't success.

[KPN]

3. They are not stupid!

They know exactly what they are doing. Calling Bernie's campaign a success serves to placate the masses whom corporatocracy must control in order to maintain their immense power.

[Skink]

2. 1600 Pennsylvania ave

January 2017