Congratulations! You managed to surround the target, but you didn’t even bother identifying the bull’s-eye… then you ran away giggling with smugness as though identifying what to run away from was the name of the game. We MUST NOT “let go of Bernie”. And while you are “warm”, you needed to get “hot” in your quest to pin the tail on the donkey. We need Bernie because he continues to provide the rallying cry necessary to bring like-minded candidates into the mix and show them the ropes. We need Bernie to inspire them. To encourage them to run without sacrificing their ideals simply to “buy a win”… even if their first attempt comes up short. The whole problem is that the people who want change see it as an impossibility, so they continue to settle for the lesser evil and retreat to their corners and lick their wounds. THAT is why we need Bernie… and maybe we need to live with a few more “greater evils” before the “lesser evil” takes THEIR toys and goes home, leaving the viable alternative to the “greater evil” an ACTUAL SUPPORT-WORTHY CANDIDATE.
What we actually “need to let go of” are the self-serving nay-sayers who keep pounding the drum for settling for that “lesser evil”, even as that bar gets lower and lower… nay-sayers like this “author”.
