Senator Sanders,

Throughout your 2 presidential campaigns you told America that your run wasn't about you. You said it was about the mass of disaffected people who correctly recognize that our political system has been captured by the wealthy and powerful; to the extent that the electoral process is no longer responsive to the will of the People. "Not Me, Us." We spoke those words with you and we meant it. Did you? It's not so obvious anymore.

From 2015 until the day you suspended your campaign, we were attacked and smeared almost exclusively by our "allies" in the Democratic Party and their co-conspirators in the corporate media. 5 years of nonstop lies about you and all of us being sexists, racists, Russian assets and on and on... This on top of blatant election meddling and voter suppression. You promised you'd fight corrupt Democratic officials as hard as you'd fight Republicans. We believed you and we gave you everything. Then instead of fighting for us you reprimanded your surrogates and aides when they took entirely fair and truthful shots at your main opponent. You refused to discuss his obvious and undeniable corruption even though Trump would afford him no such courtesy in a general election. You repeatedly referred to Mr. Biden as your "good friend" and even insisted he could beat Trump.

Your capitulation in this race is unacceptable. Your endorsement of a man who has fought against everything we stand for after we've sacrificed so much in this election is like a knife in the back. And contrary to those who claimed your supporters are "cultists" who mindlessly follow you, we have no issue with telling you when you're wrong. And here you're wrong.

We will not vote to replace a corrupt, racist, warmongering, sexual assaulting Republican with a corrupt, racist, warmongering, sexual assaulting Democrat. Some of us will vote for the Green Party candidate, some for Trump and many, many others will simply do what they normally do and stay home. Joe Biden cannot and will not beat Trump. And if the Democrats attempt to replace Mr. Biden with someone else at the convention because he's become too much of a liability, with your campaign suspended you'll make it easy for them to not pick you even though you're the runner-up. In such a blatantly anti-democratic scenario we won't vote for whoever that person is either.

In light of the mounting corroborating evidence of Joe Biden's rape of Tara Reade we demand that you retract your endorsement of him and immediately reinstate your 2020 campaign. If the words "Not Me, Us" were ever more than just a catchy slogan for you, we hope that you will choose to join us and see this through.