Bernie, Don’t Endorse Hillary Before the Convention!
If you stay true to the political revolution, you will get that army outside the White House supporting your proposals.

Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally at Town Hall in New York City. (Dennis Van Tine / STAR MAX / IPx)
If Senator Sanders endorses Mrs. Clinton, it should be expected that some percentage of delegates would not show up in Philly, and many of those who do will be harboring great resentment towards the campaign itself. Millions of voters will instantly retreat to the resignation and despair with party politics that they harbored before this campaign. The momentum of this revolution will largely come to an end. Base supporters will effectively be returned to the masses of disenchanted potential voters who justifiably feel that most politicians can’t be trusted, because they so frequently sell out when they’re most needed. Over the last 13 months, I’ve managed hundreds of volunteers. Dozens of them have individually expressed to me and others that they would “burn their Bernie shirts if he ever endorsed the epitome of everything we’re fighting against.” Nobody is immune to the backlash of endorsing the nation’s most corrupt politician, even the father of OUR political revolution. Most of the 13 million people who voted for Senator Sanders had not heard of him before he announced his candidacy. To these people, he represents more than just the social and environmental issues that resonate with them. He represents the very notion that there can still be integrity in the US Congress. If he endorses the very establishment candidate he railed against, he could lose those people to politics forever.
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