"The Left wing of the Democratic Party has the leverage" No; some just wish it did. We haven't had any leverage since '72.
."I'm looking at the big picture and the short term picture here." Civil war? Maybe you should forget the big picture.
"Coal Mining Killer Hillary Clinton".?
Sanders: 'To hell with the fossil fuel industry’ thehill.com
"You are just selling out by voting for Hillary. If you are Left wing like I am" Unless you are left wing like me and live in a place like Calif, you're selling out America by not biting the bullet and voting for her.
"rigged the system against Bernie Sanders" Big boys don't cry. Bernie rigged the system against Bernie twice; once when he spent 40 years as a Democratic Socialist instead of as a Dem, and then again when he fell 3 million votes behind.
John Oliver to Bernie Sanders Supporters: The ‘System Is Broken’ But Hillary Is Winning Anyway
...Fortunately, both parties “got lucky” this year, as their most popular candidates look to receive their respective nominations. Trump has a lead of almost 4 million votes over his closest competitor, while Hillary has a lead of over 3 million over Sanders.
“Sanders supporters might argue that doesn’t include all caucus votes, but when The Washington Post estimated the rest, they found that [Hillary] would still lead by 2.9 million votes, and even if you multiply all those estimated caucus votes by 7 to account for lower turnouts, even if you give Bernie a bonus of 10,000 extra votes in every state that’s voted so far, and even if you tack on an extra 100,000 votes just for shits and giggles, she’s still comfortably ahead.”
“And I know, Bernie supporters—I can hear you typing right now that I look like an angry toucan funded by Shillary, but that doesn’t make it any less true,” he added.
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