Why Bernie can't drop out? Because he is being deceived. Repeatedly.

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89. Super condescending for no reason

You talk in the language of ideas but have no way to implement them

Only if you ignore the ways to implement them. Seriously, this isn't a insane-o campaign, as much as you'd like it to be. There are real, well reasoned, policy positions which, by and large, have detailed plans for their execution. Not to mention that they are common ideas throughout the modern world.

we do have a good chance to get the Senate if you Bernie folk would just stop.

How does that work? You think that Bernie voters will not go to the ballot box because their candidate didn't get the nomination? I think you've got that backwards. A huge number of people who wouldn't have voted at all will be going to the polling places in November, because they're suddenly interested in a political system they believed had abandoned them. I think the fact that Bernie ran at all has probably significantly changed the makeup of both the Senate and House, in the Democratic party's favor.

I saw occupy fizzle out and was deeply saddened.

Do you mean you saw Occupy be beaten into submission by the police and MSM? What do you think happened to all the people who participated in / were inspired by Occupy? I think a lot of them are now Bernie supporters. I think many of them are more involved in politics now than they were before. I think some of them are running for office, or joining / have joined local party organizations. I think that this revolution has nowhere to go but up, as we'll probably see in Philadelphia and going forward for the next decade at least. Young people are finally getting involved, and that's a recipie for real change. Ignore it at your own peril.

You listened to Bernie and thought he could do those things right away.

No, we listened to Bernie when he said that real change starts at the bottom. You seem to think that there is no hope for positive change in Washington. I (and Bernie and Bernie supporters) think that the only hope is to actively hold our government accountable to our interests. Do you think that's pie in the sky? Do you have examples of large-scale changes that have happened in America which didn't stem from such direct action?

You all have lost touch with reality. ... If anyone lied to you, it was Bernie. ... insisting on 'concessions' that are meaningless if you live in the real world.

I don't even have words. Maybe we should have a rational conversation about policy points and the future of our democracy, instead of callously writing off nearly half of the Democratic party and a significant chunk of Independent voters.