Understanding Bernie or Bust

Understanding Bernie or Bust
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#BernieOrBust

The establishment just doesn't get it.

Robert Reich just doesn't get it.

Main stream media just doesn't get it.

Asking Bernie Sanders supporters to fall lockstep in line with the Democratic Party is like asking a religious person to become an atheist. It's like asking asking a sunni to be a shia. It's like asking a liberal to vote conservative because that's exactly what the DNC has become. To ask Berners to vote for Hillary is asking them to go against their core beliefs because she represents the opposite of everything they stand for. It's simply not going to happen.

What the established refuses to understand is that Bernie supporters would rather take a political poison pill and allow the establishment to commit a World Wide Suicide rather than support Hillary Rodham Clinton. It's the height of arrogance for the establishment to not consider the possibility that they can actually lose. It's not like this is a threat to try to hold the DNC hostage, it's just the passionate way Bernie supporters feel.

Since the beginning of his campaign, Bernie was not taken seriously and neither were his supporters. But this is serious. Our planet has just experience 12 consecutive months of the hottest temperatures on record. Our $3T Healthcare system is failing miserably and our middle class has been all but wiped out.

People are hurting and they're angry. Even if Bernie endorsed Hillary, which there is no way in hell he is going to do at this point, his supporters are not going to follow. The millions of people who've shelled out $27 of their money to support him are not going to simply vote for Hillary because he said to. That's laughable. Not at this point. Not after Nevada. Not after the way the DNC has treated his candidacy and his movement. Not after Debbie Wasserman Schultz has repeatedly thrown him under the bus.

Why would Bernie turn around and support the very apparatus that he's been railing against for the past 12 months? The big moneyed interests, the corporate greed, the bias in the media and the Oligarchy that have taken over the DNC is everything Bernie's movement has been against. He had this radical idea of telling the American people that truth and that makes him dangerous.

The original arrangement with the FCC in the 50s when the networks were granted broadcast licenses was that they were to broadcast unbiased news as a community service. One of the first things Bernie should do when he gets into office is to have the FCC investigate impartiality within the industry and consider revoking CNN's license, not to mention ABC, CBS, NBC & Fox.

FOX was bad enough with their Fair & Balanced slogan juxtaposed against their obvious bias towards conservatives, but CNN has become an utter disgrace. They've become such a joke that they've actually made FOX look legitimate. MSNBC isn't that much better but part of what makes Bernie's movement so powerful is that not only do they use the internet to communicate their ideas, but they also effectively use the internet to call out the networks' blatant deceit and obfuscation of the truth.

Berniecrats are not fools and will not fall for the media's disinformation any longer. The jig is up.

BERNIE OR BUST

As Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself" and yet the way the Democratic Establishment operates is by trafficking in fear. Just look at their approach now; "Support Hillary or it's going to be your fault we've elected Trump". This is clearly an example, one of many the DNC uses, of using fear for political leverage.

However, fear mongering no longer works on awakened people and that's what the establishment cannot get their minds around. There's a sense of urgency here that the establishment is in denial about. What we're going to be witnessing in the second half of 2016 is either the death of politics as usual or a progressive movement towards the survival of humanity on this planet.

That's what #BernieOrBust means.

Bernie is not trying to transform the Democratic Party.

To the contrary, what he's doing is restoring the Democratic Party to it's original values. The democratic party of today can be thought of as Republican lite. It's no longer the party of the working class, of progressive values and of forward thinking ideas but rather has become a conservative party bought and paid for by Wall Street, Pharmaceuticals, Big Oil and other corporate interests.

The Democratic Party has always stood for things like environmental protection, sustainable co-existence with nature, living in harmony with with each other, labor rights and protections of the country's most vulnerable.

Bernie supporters understand that Hillary stands for none of these things.

#BernieOrBust

Frank Huguenard holds a degree in science from Purdue University and spent decades in product development in Silicon Valley prior to embarking on a career in documentary film production, specializing in films bridging the gap between Science & Spirituality. He draws on his research in the fields of combination of psychology, physics, wisdom traditions, sociology and history. You can see his films at www.beyondmefilms.com.

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