Robert Reich: You need to “work like hell” for Hillary Clinton if Bernie doesn’t win

[book_worm]

Bernie Sanders die-hards aren't ready to hear that his fight for the nomination is nearing an end — even from some of his most prominent surrogates.

On Thursday, Sanders ally Robert Reich published a Facebook post urging readers to not "demonize or denigrate" Hillary Clinton, and to be prepared to vote for her in a general election against Donald Trump.

"If [Clinton] wins the Democratic nomination, I urge you to work like hell for her," said Reich, who endorsed Sanders months ago. "She’ll be an excellent president for the system we now have, even though Bernie would be the best president for the system we need."

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/19/11712146/robert-reich-bernie-sanders

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Uh oh

Now Reich is under the bus

[Thinkingabout]

2. It is good Reich has spoken up, there needs to be more of this, and coming from Sanders.

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[Cha]

4. There's no "doesn't" about it.. You need to work like hell for Hillary since bernie didn't

win.

[MirrorAshes]

5. Excellent. His surrogates are starting to come home.

This is step 1.

[stopbush]

6. Reich had his hat handed to him by Barney Frank during an MSNBC

segment on Chris Hayes where they discussed too big to fail. Frank called him on his BS. It wasn't pretty.

Here's the deal: too big to fail is NOT about banks having billions of dollars in assets and enjoying liquidity. It's about banks making risky investments, over-leveraging their assets and ending up insolvent. THAT is the problem, insolvency. The problem is not having obscene levels of wealth.

But to Sanders, it's ALL about having too much wealth. He believes that having too much wealth makes you evil and that you practice that evil by consciously ruining the lives of the have nots. It's as if Sanders believes that the money itself isn't as important to the wealthy as is their ability to fuck over the rest of us.

That's basically the line Reich was pushing. When Frank asked him to cite a number - $500-billion, $1-trillion, whatever - that Reich considered to be too many assets for a bank to hold, all Reich said was, "they're already too big and they should be broken up." Just like Sanders, Reich refuses to put actual numbers behind his wild claims.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. Better late than never, Mr. Reich.

[otohara]

8. What's With The "IF" Bob?

implying there is still a chance isn't cool

[eastwestdem]

9. This is a good sign, once the surrogates realize the writing on the wall... nt

[BlueMTexpat]

10. I've always liked Robert Reich,

even when I thought that his support for Bernie was misguided.

Reich is a true progressive. Much more so than Bernie has ever been.

I'm glad to see him speaking truth to fantasy.