“We won’t see a presidential candidate like Bernie again in our lifetimes.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-sanbonmatsu/new-york-bernie-sanders-is_b_9629028.html
New York: Bernie Sanders Is Our Last Chance
“We won’t see a presidential candidate like Bernie again in our lifetimes.” As I heard these words, spoken by a woman at a Sanders campaign event recently, I felt a chill go through me. Because I knew she was right. We won’t.
We won’t see another presidential candidate who refuses to take campaign donations from the wealthy and the corporate elite. We won’t see another candidate with the courage to take on Wall Street. We won’t see a candidate with the guts to tell the American people that they have lost their democracy. We won’t see another candidate who mentions the working class and the poor in his speeches. We won’t see another candidate sounding the alarm bells over global warming.
It is no wonder that the wealthy owners of the New York Times and Washington Post and other media organs have reacted to Sanders’ insurgency with such fury, emptying their stables of talent each day in an effort to run him down and exterminate him politically. It’s like watching the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, standing in the window of her castle, arms outstretched, sending her flying monkeys hurtling through the sky on a mission to destroy her would-be destroyers. ......
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I choose to be optimistic. 
The PTB are terrified of this campaign. Their bias for the establishment candidates has reached epic proportions of transparency. And there's a good chance we could see many more politicians like him if he is elected. This political revolution doesn't end with Bernie.
the effects of incrementalism over several decades and the result is that the majority of people have in fact are worse off.
Many boomers join with the millennials to affect real change! We have lots in common
"...There are many reasons to find Hillary Clinton repugnant as a politician: her support for the Iraq War in 2003 and for the Honduran military coup in 2009, her ties to Goldman Sachs and Big Pharma, her support for neoliberal trade and economic policies that hurt working people, children, and the poor, her depiction of Edward Snowden as a “traitor,” her support for fracking, her past mockery of the women who accused her husband of sexual assault, and so on. But the worst thing about Hillary is simply that she represents the status quo.
Perhaps, twenty or thirty years ago, it was still plausible to argue that voting for “the lesser evil” might usher in the kind of changes that our society desperately needs. But not today. Not with fascism rising again in Europe, and perhaps now even here in the United States. Not with the hollowing out of our democracy by corporate money. Not in the face of an unprecedented ecological emergency. If a Trump presidency is unthinkable, a Clinton presidency is unacceptable.
Critics of Sanders dismiss his policy proposals, like a single-payer health care system or free higher education (rights long ago established in Europe) as “pie in the sky.” But in reality, it is Clinton’s supporters who are engaging in wishful thinking. Last month, Oxfam reported that the richest 62 individuals now own as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 human beings, half of the whole species. To believe that such a system can be “reformed,” or that Hillary will give us the “incremental change” we need to disrupt this monumental theft of the world’s resources, is dangerous self-delusion...."
it will be extremely hard to once again vote for the lesser of two evils, been there done that.
What have we achieved, a shrinking middle class, numerous citizens incarcerated for minor offenses, millions of people suffering overseas because of our policy of regime, not to mention the people (terrorists) that have been spawned because of our meddling into their affairs ... many times for resources or control of a region 
One thing I can say is that the younger generation is not as swayed by party loyalty as us older people, they see the consequences of just going along and are taking a stance. They have time on their side and are looking towards a longer a game, I applaud their efforts, change does not come easy!
When we marry the rights and concerns of all people we move forward, we cannot give into those who seek to divide.
I couldn't resist.
It ain't going to happen. Hillary is the choice of more registered Democrats than Sanders. She has 2.4M more votes than he does to prove it. Aside from being around 250 pledged delegates ahead of him. Why would she drop out?
