Bite your tongue. We have SCOTUS to worry about.
A SCOTUS serves for one lifetime, Sanders' poison might be the final nail in the coffin for rational democracy for the foreseeable future.
The GOP pandered to their radical fringe and what did that get them? More demands, more pandering, and ultimately a table set for Donald Trump. This is how extremists actually take over parties, not with single big elections. They appear significant enough for a party to sell to focus on pandering to them. This enables them and indulges their already inflated sense of self-worth. Before long it's No True Scotsman testing every election cycle. Sanders is running his campaign on the exact same tactics and rhetoric as the Tea Party in 2010. The Dems have, to this point, been sensible enough to not capitulate too much. If crossing that line is the only thing that would appease Sanders and his devotees I'd rather not and just see what happens in November.
Give in to Sanders and maybe we get 4-8 years of Clinton but by 2024 we'll have an anti-science nut equal to Jill Stein as the Dem candidate and a new Trump on the GOP side. That is where this is headed. Then we're really looking at giant douche v. turd sandwich.
Even then, the need for Sanders' supporters is being grossly overstated. Unless he actually runs third party, which is something he'll do either way based on his own already existing agenda, Clinton can win without the Sanders cult. I'd rather she did so there would be ample motivation to run a Dem against him in 2018.
So the narrative went to "Vote Clinton to stop Trump!' to just "Vote Clinton because Bernie is worse than Trump." The fact is "Bernie and his cult" are for wealth equality, not treating Palestinians like second class citizens, not inciting wars and violence on a foreign level etc.
I can't believe Bernie's mild left wing policies that are already in place in Europe and Canada are called the "left wing tea party".
Sanders is for Sanders. If you can't see that by now that's your problem. He's been purity testing Clinton all primary because she wants universal healthcare but isn't slavishly devoted to it coming in the form of single payer only. He's been hitting her on minimum wage when her stance has been $12/Hr. nationally with high cost states/municipalities setting their own number. I could go on. he's purity testing someone who is ideologically almost entirely aligned with him. This isn't an attempt to move Clinton to the left, this is an attempt to force HIS ideology at the expense of any and all alternatives. Being in 99% agreement with Sanders just means you're the closest enemy. He has no allies, no friends, only lackeys.
And it isn't Sanders' policies that make him the left wing tea party. It's the dogged devotion to belief in the complete absence of fact, the impenetrable bubble he lives within, and the constant with us or against us viewpoint he and his take towards everyone who isn't in lockstep with their propaganda. It is, quite frankly, disgusting. It is also how cults act. Just go look at Scientology for one great example. Blind, unquestioning devotion to a belief system despite an absence of or in complete disagreement with facts.
Okay, quick vote: Who here honestly thinks Bernie Sanders is a worse choice for President than Donald Trump?
I say Trump is worse.
Of course Trump is worse. He's basically the 21st century Mussolini. But the United States has enough provisions to weather one and possibly even two terms of someone like him. Sanders' agenda is something else entirely.
That is the problem here. Sanders wants to destroy the one party behaving in a rational and pragmatic fashion to move the ball forward because it doesn't move in exactly the speed and direction he wants. Trump has driven the final stake in the already rotten heart of the GOP.
We can't afford to lose the last bastion of effective governance for one election just because Sanders and co. are willing to hold it hostage. The referendum on Trump is in November. The referendum on if the Democratic Party will follow the Republicans into the church of blind ideology is being held right now. We can't afford to lose either one so win the one going on now and deal with the other when the time comes, regardless of what the fallout from the first might produce.