Sanders Rebuffs Pressure to Drop Bid as Clinton Meeting Set

[Joe Chi Minh]

185. Why are Hillary and her supporters almost beside themselves with

anxiety for Bernie to drop out ? While affecting a hilarious nonchalance, as you are affecting Maria, not to speak of a concern for Bernie to profit from cosying up to Hillary. They are politically chalk and cheese. He might as well cosy up to a Republican. Bernie is not a politician in the customary sense. He needs politics' 'art of the possible' to have a moral dimension. Just winning, just gaining power even, are not the be all and end all, as they are with 99.999 % of politicians.

Bernie had two sorts of counterparts in Britain in Lloyd George and Aneurin Bevan, though cynicism got to the former in the end. But for most of Lloyd George's career, political opponents (and Hillary is effectively an unequivocal, political opponent of Bernie) had to cosy up to him. I believe Aneuren Bevan who introduced the NHS after WWII, remained a firebrand until his retirement. He had received death threats, excrement through his letterbox, etc. Soon, however, the doctors realsied the NHS afforded them a secure, regular income.

It would have been difficult for Aneurin to 'mend bridges' with the Tories, having called them out for what they were and have become again, i.e. 'lower than vermin'.

Are Hillary's supporters and their 'wheels' of the 'deep state' scared that Hillary might be obliged to drop out on whatever grounds at a critical juncture ? They must have some serious reason to be so exercised by his refusal to effectiveiy condone her platform, and to be fearful of his becoming next in line for the presidency - assuming Hillary wins, that is.