De-escalate, De-mobilize, and De-moralize any Progressive Movement

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18. I've basically been thinking and feeling the same thing

I feel like I finally found a true Progressive who feels the same way I do and in dismay I've watched first as they ignored him, then they couldn't ignore him because he was winning States. No matter how they tried he was very quickly gaining on Hillary in all the polls, they tried to turn him into a spoiler like Nader. Then the last month they tried to turn him into a pathetic old man who simply doesn't understand when he needs to give up. They pretend they want us in the fold when in reality all they want is for us to shut up and disappear.

They keep talking about Bernie followers as if they're all too young to "get it". Well I'm 68 years old and a dozen of my workmates are around my age and we all back Bernie. They're lying about that too. They should know better.

For me it's not that I'm against Hillary as much as I'm against what she stands for which is the status quo. More of the same. The same Republican light ignoring the entire Left just to stay in power. This country has sunk into the beginnings of a third world country with homeless, unemployed, underpaid, minimum wagers who have no future. I've lived in a country that had a majority of people in poverty, and I see the signs everywhere because I can remember when there was no such thing as beggars in the street in this country. Now they're everywhere.