No, Bernie can't win the nomination

[Tom Rinaldo]

50. I've missed you Cali. Glad and not at all surprised to see that you still call it like you see it.

DU gets far too crazy far too often from people only being willing to view reality through their own preferred lens, no matter how finely crafted it may be. Anyone who speculates that you modify your views to placate the Admin of DU don't know you.

As to the substance of your OP, I agree. Maybe there is some wiggle room over what would have to be the unlikely cataclysm in order for Bernie to get actually the nomination ( I think it could be something slightly shy of a Hillary email issue indictment coupled with Bernie winning almost all of the remaining states by over 20 points with a 30+ point spread in California). Extremely unlikely. Hundreds of SD's are joined to Hillary at the hip - not enough emergency rooms available near the convention center to do the necessary surgery to separate them all without calling in National Guard medics under a state of emergency.

But hell yes Bernie needs to stay in this thing until the last votes are counted. He needs to educate, he needs to instigate, he needs to pressure and he needs to mobilize. To walk away from the opportunity that his presidential candidacy provides him to do so would be literally insane for any progressive activist who has devoted his life to the cause to do. And sure, there's one chance in 50 something could happen to still make him the Democratic nominee. That's still near infinitely better odds than winning a super lottery jackpot - and someone wins one of those every week.

I have always taken Bernie at his word. He said he would support the Democratic nominee - he will. He said that he believes Hillary on her worst day is thousands of times better than a potential President Trump - he believes that. We, his supporters, are free to take different positions but those are his. Personally, I'm with Bernie on those points also but I understand how others may not be. None of us are forced to be engaged in electoral politics, or even to vote. We can devote our energy to organizing around issues that matter to us, in addition to or as an alternative to electoral politics. I will look for ways to support any ongoing organizing efforts that come out of the Sanders for President campaign and will look to Bernie for continued leadership.