Bernie Sanders could win my undying affection on Tuesday night if he does one thing:

[Celerity]

8. Bern will NEVER, in his life, be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States

He needs to drop out and do it now.

He is risking lives by staying in the race, especially by forcing people to vote in these times of pandemic peril, and also by aiding the Trump/Putin axis that thrives upon a Democratic Party divided. Sanders got ALL he is going to get in terms of concessions when Biden partially adopted his stance on uni tuition. Bernie neither deserves, nor will he be given, much more than that.

He has done tremendous damage over the years with his never ending slag-offs of our Party. He needs to serve out his term and then retire, as his fate is to simply go fade away in an ever lower arc that inevitably leads to the dustbin of history. That is his destiny, and it is as inescapable as the gravity well of a quantum singularity. Some of his stances and programmes are quite good, but he was, is, and always will be a tremendously flawed vessel to carry those idea-waters in.

He is truly an American, rough-hewed, hackneyed version of Corbyn and will go out, much like Jeremy, not with a bang, but the whimper of a defeated erstwhile revolutionary who simply was always bound to fitfully trod upon a footnote-in-history path to nowhere.