Bernie Sanders is under a lot of pressure to apologize and "reign in" his supporters after a few Sanders supporters in Nevada left threatening text messages or voicemails for Roberta Lange, who chaired Saturday's convention.

Clearly any threats over phone or text are wrong and inexcusable. Sanders is very clear in saying that he condemns them. Very clear. His words were these: "Our campaign of course believes in non-violent change and it goes without saying that I condemn any and all forms of violence, including the personal harassment of individuals." So no one disagrees there.

The question is, why were these people angry, and is Bernie Sanders responsible for their behavior? The reason they were angry is that they went in expecting one thing (what they should have expected): that any rules changes would be voted on, that points of order would be discussed, etc -- basically that the meeting would be run democratically (small d). But what happened instead was a total disregard for the democratic process. The chair called a vote on "temporary rules" at 9:30 when it was on the agenda for 10am; delegates were still standing in line during the vote. The temporary rules made it more difficult to make any changes to the agenda, the temporary rules, or the standing rules, thus nullifying the delegates' ability to take part in the democratic process...which is the entire reason they were there.

Bernie supporters are already quite upset (and I believe rightly so) to see that democracy in our country is being subverted by egregious voter suppression, surprise closing of polling places, purging voters from the rolls, and even in some cases visible voting machine hacking as demonstrated in Chicago, where the "audit" of voting machines came up with large differences between the hand count (understood as correct) and the machine count, and the auditors erased the hand count to make it agree with the machine count. (Erasing Sanders votes, of course, and adding Clinton votes.)

So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that when you get hundreds of people in a room who already know about this hijacking of our election, with the expectation that their vote will count, and then right in front of them you tell them they can go jump in a lake, these people will be very, very angry.

Now, whose fault is it that some of those people left threatening texts or phone messages? Is it Bernie Sanders' fault? A man who has never in his 30+ years of campaigning put out a single negative ad? Who has had nothing but peaceful rallies? Who says over and over that we should stand together? I don't think so. It is obviously the fault of the individuals who left the messages. But I think it is also the fault of the Democratic party for kicking democracy in the teeth over and over right in front of our faces.

The vast majority of Bernie people genuinely believe in peaceful protest despite these outrageous practices by the Democratic party. I say this as someone who peacefully protested the Democratic party in 2000, and was illegally arrested and jailed for three days along with 70 other people. None of us had done anything illegal, and in fact at the time we were on a completely calm bike ride with a police escort. While in jail, the women were illegally strip searched twice, marched past the general population in our undies over and over, woken up every hour of the night to be "counted", etc. I was in such a state of shock and disbelief; I couldn't believe it was happening because I had always believed in "Officer Friendly." But this was my punishment for making it known that I believed the Democratic party had moved too far to the right. We won a $2,750,000.00 settlement against the city and county of LA, but I never protested again.

I mention that only because from the outside, as someone who doesn't see how crazily biased our mainstream media is against anyone who challenges the system, it's easy to buy the B.S. that the mainstream media tells you over and over. "Oh, wow, the Bernie people just got mad because they couldn't get their way, and wow, then they sent out death threats. That sounds just like Trump followers, Bernie must be as bad as Trump!" But believe me, that is not what is happening.

Bernie said something in his letter about Nevada that no one is talking about. He said, "It is imperative that the Democratic leadership, both nationally and in the states, understand that the political world is changing and that millions of Americans are outraged at establishment politics and establishment economics." The important part of this statement is "the political world is changing." People do not yet realize how much it has changed already.

Inequality is at its highest point since 1928. Wake up. You know what happened in the 30s? Hitler. Mussolini. Leaders who sold themselves as populists. And a real populist: FDR. We are headed for a very bad time if the mainstream media and political elites don't wake up to the fact that establishment politics will not work this time. People are angry. I mentioned above that people are already angry about this primary election, but you have to add in how angry people are that they lost their jobs and homes, that they can't afford health care, that their lives are going down the tubes.

Do you know why the life expectancy for men in McDowell county, West Virginia (one of the poorest counties in the US), is 18 years lower than it is for men in a rich county a short drive away? Suicide and drug overdose. One more time: suicide and drug overdose. This county is so poverty stricken, these people are so past their breaking point that they are literally killing themselves. And you think they're not angry? You think they won't send death threats? You think they won't vote for Trump? They will vote for anyone who claims they will stop the constant trickle up of money from the 99% to the 1%.

The political world is changing. Clinton can't win against Trump, not this time, but unfortunately everyone in DC lives so entirely inside a bubble that they believe everything they tell the media to say. Just keep saying it over and over and it will become true...that used to work, but not anymore.

The political world is changing. It is not Bernie's fault that people are angry. It is not Bernie's fault that people who protest Trump rallies get into fights. It is not Bernie's fault that millions of Americans think the political process is stacked against them. And it will not be Bernie's fault when Clinton loses to Trump. It will be the fault of the Democratic establishment that has used every slimy, legal and illegal tactic they could think of to make sure that Bernie couldn't be nominated.

The political world is changing, and we need to wake up to the fact that it's 1930 again. In the 30s we chose FDR instead of a Hitler or a Mussolini. Let's hope that we have the same wisdom this time around.