Well, it looks like it will happen. The rumors started yesterday about a deal brewing where Bernie will endorse Clinton if the price is right. And this morning on NPR, I heard Keith Ellison, one of Bernie's biggest surrogates, praising Hillary as an "honest" person who has been besmirched and slandered for years by right wing attacks. He also added that it looks like Clinton will be the nominee and he will vote for her, and we must defeat Trump and ...

No way Ellison appears on NPR, and says what he said, without an agreement among the Sanders' inner circle and Bernie's approval. I assume that they decided that now is the time to cash in Bernie's chips and get what he can get. I shouldn't be surprised after James Comey refused to recommend an indictment against Hillary on Tuesday. That was likely the last card Sanders was waiting to see fall and when it didn't fill in his inside straight (non-poker players, just google that phrase) the way he hoped it would, well, here we are. In the end, Bernie Sanders is a politician and he wants to continue, apparently, to work within the system.

So, am I disappointed? Damn right I am, but I'm not going to piss all over Sanders for making the decision he did. Obviously, he must believe he can get a better deal and achieve more with President Clinton and a, hopefully, Democratic majority in the Senate, than he could going third party or refusing to endorse. But I disagree with him that he's making the best choice for the rest of us.

The TPP will likely be passed in the lame duck session of Congress if Hillary wins the general. The last trophy on Obama's legacy shelf, so to speak. The economy, at some point in the near or mid-future will crash. That's just my opinion, but it would be consistent with historical trends when financial markets are essentially unregulated and big mega-banks can speculate at will. The Federal Reserve and the Bundesbank can keep interest rates at zero all they want, but monetary policy will not stop that train. As the famous quote from the Stanley Kubrick movie, Full Metal Jacket, goes, we are in a world of shit.

For myself, I am still going to Philadelphia to protest the DNC, whatever deal gets struck by the Clinton and Sanders' campaigns. The Green Party is on the ballot in New York where I reside, so I will vote for Jill Stein. I don't know if I'll be voting for any Democrat at this point at any level. In my state most of them are compromised and owned by Wall Street anyway. Each of us must make their own decision about what to do going forward.

One thing I'm not going to do is shut my eyes to what is, in effect, not simply evidence of personal corruption by politicians like Hillary, but a systemic issue. Who we elect doesn't matter much anymore, whether they are charming and personable, smart and charismatic or Richard Nixon's long lost evil sister. The fault lies not in the people for whom we vote, or their supporters and staffers and lackeys, as much as it does a deeply compromised political system that has been gamed and rigged and, for all intents and purposes, is owned by powerful corporations and institutions that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. I'm going to give Bernie Sanders the benefit of the doubt, and assume he's smart enough to know this (after all, he's been saying it for months now on the campaign trail) and has still chosen to endorse Hillary for whatever bones she will throw his way.

I may choose to register as Green. I may decide to back the de-regisitration movement known by the catch phrase, DemExit. But I will not go quietly, whatever I do. I will continue to fight for a political revolution. I just hope that there are enough people who will make that same choice. Because as I said last night in my YouTube video, if millions of us stick together we can make a difference. If we don't, we'll fall apart and watch the world descend into madness and we, its people, into further misery and despair.