With the mainstream media continuing to pursue (with the encouragement of some Democratic party insiders) its “anyone but Bernie” strategy, my impulse was to demand that Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar need to drop out and endorse Bernie. Then I realized that the losing candidates, except for unlimited money Mike “Stop ‘n’ Frisky” Bloomberg, are irrelevant. It’s we the voters who decide. It’s our endorsement that matters, and we are choosing Sanders. The Nevada Caucus process revealed that Sanders is not only the first choice but the second choice of Democratic voters.
As Jesse Jackson recently put it, “what Sanders represents is not the left-wing. It’s the moral center. Healthcare for everybody is moral. Education even for the poor without student loan debt is the moral center. Middle East policy where you recognize Israel and Palestine is the moral center.”
In this election, voters are paying attention like never before. We have our own sources of information. We are not dependent on the outrageous statements of MSNBC and CNN “commentators.” It is US who need to endorse Bernie Sanders as the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump, institute campaign finance reform, and restore this country’s middle class and economic security.
So, effective today, I call on my brothers and sisters in the Democratic electorate to resign from the debating society, drop out of supporting candidates who are going nowhere and stand with me at the moral center of the party for bold climate action, for healthcare all, endorse Bernie Sanders.