No, I'm saying that they're more substantial than people here are saying they are. Those people just don't go away. Obviously, Hillary's platform should be what the DNC uses a basis moving forward, but certain things Bernie wants, like reforming the primary process, should be taken seriously. At least to make the process seem more fair and to make it easier to vote.
I'll be quick to admit this is my first election. Maybe young people get angry every election, and their target just changes every election. Seeing the state of income inequality in our country, I don't feel like these people will just forget all the rhetoric Bernie's been spewing for the past half year and that ignoring them will just make them angrier. Or maybe I'm accidentally believing there's an actual (small) political revolution at hand, when in reality this happens every four years. I don't know.
edit: I think the reason he won't endorse Clinton is because he thinks his "political revolution" has staying power. He doesn't want to undermine that, so instead of helping beat Trump by endorsing Clinton, he'll help beat him by opposing him directly. I don't think he'll make much of an impact in that regard once the media moves on tho.
The issue is, the things that Bernie's supporters claim to want are the same things that Hillary wants too. She wants to raise the minimum wage, but maybe not to $15 an hour everywhere. (However if congress does that, she will sign it without question or hesitation.) She wants to lower health care costs...but what Bernie is offering isn't feasible because we don't have the votes in congress, and we cannot just start over because of reasons. Hillary wants to get rid of Citizens United, probably more than anyone else.
The problem is Bernie has done an amazing job at making the perfect the enemy of the good. He has convinced a bunch of (mostly) young people that everything that's not 100% what Bernie is spewing is somehow corrupt or not progressive. That is his revolution at the moment.
I don't mean this in a condescending way, but we cannot give into people who are acting like petulent children. Everything is not rigged when you lose. Sometimes, you know, you just lose. Because Bernie's supporters tend to be younger and newer to the process, I don't think they full yappreciate the fact that you can legitimately lose in politics. Like, even if you think you're 100% right, other people don't. And the way to move your agenda forward is to compromise, which doesn't mean giving Bernie everything he wants.
Some of his demands don't even deserve consideration because they're either impossible or just vindictive. Those things we need to shoot down hard and fast on principle.
