It’s a bird, it’s a plane, nope, it’s the ego that lost New York. It’s the Titanic refusing to sink. It’s the 2016 version of the Hindenburg and the Lusitania. It’s Admiral Bernie and his stalwart crew of reddit bros standing on the burning deck shouting out demands. Yes, you heard me right, demands, because losers get to set the terms by which they live on to fight another day right? I mean it’s so appropriate for the winner to allow the loser to choose their cabinet. It makes perfect sense that the 9 million people who voted for the losing candidate would trump the 13 million(so far) who chose the policies and programs of the winner? That’s how it works in the real world right? In a contest to select the best solution or program or design it’s of course customary to let the losing applicants muck up the winner’s plan. Let’s time travel back to 2008 and imagine for a second how it might have gone had Hillary played it that` way. First of all, she would still be Senator Clinton had she done that, her 18 million voters would never have been moved and inspired by her concession speech or her request that Barack Obama be declared the nominee of the party. Her supporters would have remained angry and perhaps staged an ugly convention floor fight. The two would never have met in Unity and she and Bill would not have campaigned their hearts out for Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton would not have been Secretary of State and Barack Obama might not have been President.

Dear DNC, please get your heads out of your posteriors and wake up. These people want to destroy our party. They think the tea party was a successful insurgent movement and that’s a quote from somewhere deep in the bowels of Reddit for Sanders. They want to purge out anyone who doesn’t walk lockstep with Bernard Sanders. They are and have for months been recruiting candidates to primary real democrats. Check out a site called Bernie Thinkers. Their failed revolution started out by purging progressive Facebook pages and groups of Hillary supporters. At my county convention they voted term limits into our platform. Term limits in a democratic party platform. They wanted to limit the terms of Supreme Court Justices as well. Hey, let’s let them set the national platform. Imagine what they can do with that. Let’s let Bernie pick Hillary’s cabinet and then head back to Vermont or maybe he would like an office in the West wing. He wants Cornel West on the platform committee, he wants to kick Barney Frank off. Imagine his cabinet picks. What’s next? Does Bernie want to trade telling his supporters to play nice at the convention for a first round supreme court pick? Maybe he would like to pick the VP and have Hillary read his stump speech at the convention. Maybe Cornel West could replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the DNC or Jane Sanders could be ambassador to the Vatican since she enjoyed her trip to Rome so much. Killer Mike for Press Secretary anyone?

The problem here is that Hillary supporters have fought for her, we have made calls and gone door to door, we have been bullied and abused and watched our candidate be bullied and abused. We have donated a few million dollars and we didn’t do it to see Bernie Sanders setting her agenda and picking her cabinet. The DNC needs to realize that they could let Bernie dress up in a pantsuit and give Hillary’s speech at the convention, they could pay off his campaign debt, they could have him and jane standing on the stage with Bill and Chelsea and the VP’s family and give him carte blanche over the entire general election and he still couldn’t control his cult. They would just nod and pat Bernie on the head and smile at the old man and remind us that the revolution has gone beyond Bernie. Then they would toss some chairs and yell obscenities and try to drown out Hillary as she read Bernie’s stump speech.