Bernie: Enough Already

Dear Senator Sanders:

You’ve lost, okay? By every measure, including the popular vote, you have lost. Clinton got more votes than you did, period, end of story. Your determination to rest your hopes on turning around the Super-delegates makes no sense, because you would be asking them to vote against the wishes of the people…a tactic that, if Clinton were to use it, you would loudly and rightfully deride.

This is no longer an instance of a presidential candidate demanding justice. The last one who did that was Al Gore and that didn’t exactly turn out well. You remember Al Gore, right? The candidate whom many voters were disenchanted with, just as they’re disenchanted with Hillary. So they voted for Ralph Nader or just stayed home (much like your followers are declaring they’ll write in for you or just stay home.) As a result we got George W. Bush, who was demonstrably the worst president in American history. But you know who would be worse? Donald Trump. Far worse. Like, Moving To Canada Wouldn’t be Far Enough worse.

The simple truth is that you have the ability to stop that from occuring. You can rally your voters; they will still listen to you. You can transform them into a Stop Trump At All Costs corp of warriors who can help prevent that from happening. You said it yourself: Hillary Clinton on her worst day is better than Trump on his best day.

Or you can continue to do what you’re doing: Raving against the establishment, declaring you’re going to fight through to the convention, poison your followers against Hillary, and risk giving the White House to a racist maniac that the GOP refuses to stand against.

At some point, this stopped being about becoming President and became more about the attention. You are receiving more focus at this point in your life than you have in the preceding seven decades. Attention is addictive. It’s ego-swelling. You don’t want to be the also ran because the also ran doesn’t get the same love and stoking as the leader. I totally get it.

But now it’s time to grow beyond such needs and think of the future of this country that you will not lead. Okay? You need to come to grips with that: you are not going to lead this country. You are not going to be the nominee. What you need to do now is make sure that Trump is stopped.

Please. We need you to set your ego aside and step up.

PAD