He said many times he despises us.

WHY DID THE DNC LET HIM RUN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

But I imagine that they felt that it would be better for him running against the DNC from "the inside" instead of the outside (i.e. Third Party). Also, probably to help keep from inflaming his supporters. However, some of his supporters have so deeply bought into the "DNC rigging" narrative from 2016, they will still reject any outcome other than BS winning the nomination, which is what we're still going to wind up with this year. If Bernie doesn't just drop out, the next best thing is for Joe to ignore him and start running against Trump, like he seems to already be doing. Thankfully, this will almost certainly be the last time we'll have to deal with Bernie being a nominee.

Too bad his oratory isn’t that convincing. I remember Teddy Kennedy’s eloquence in the Senate.

Not as polished either, I guess that is part of his "charm".

The sooner people get that through their heads, especially his well-meaning supporters, the better it will be for our people and our country.

The fact is Sanders campaigns not to gain the Democratic Party's nomination for President, but to weaken if not wreck the 'Democratic Establishment'. For 'Bernie', ousting Trump and ending the Republican majority in the Senate is barely an afterthought to this long-standing purpose. Once Sanders' supporters face this fact squarely, they may be able to decide honestly what their best course in this election is: voting against 'Bernie' in any future primary, and for Mr. Biden and Democrats all down the ticket to the lowest office on the ballot come November.

It is probably true that Sanders sees destroying the 'Democratic Establishment' as an essential precondition to defeating Trump et al, and so by his own lights he means it when he says he will do all he can to defeat Trump. But that belief is so self-serving and delusional it deserves not just scorn but contempt.

As with Trump, the only real cure is to deprive the man of the oxygen of worshipful attention. The effect would be that of a bucket of water on the wicked witch of Oz....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."