We know that you would have had problems caucusing with the Democrats but Bernie you knew that as well. If you weren't prepared for those consequences, then you sir never should have ran for the highest office in the land. People will say the election was stolen from you but who the election was really stolen from was us as your supporters.  It was our votes that were stolen. It was our democracy that was stolen from us in America. There have been lawsuits filed that allege election fraud because people believed in you, people believed in America and our democracy. You rewarded them by quitting but even worse you endorsed crooked Hillary and you asked us to vote for her. How can we do that Bernie after you exposed her, but more to the point sir, how can you do it? With the justification that we should be afraid of Trump? When in fact it was you Bernie that taught us to vote for our hopes, and not our fears. You inspired us to believe and now you're doing the exact opposite  of what you made us believe in.

Here is what I'm going to do. I am going to leave the Democratic Party.

Quote from US Uncut interview of Jill Stein:"You want to affirm a corrupt party that just dragged you across the coals is there no respect here for his campaign and for himself? Are they just going to pretend it didn't happen?" "I think it would be very hard for a self-respecting Sanders supporter, in light of these revelations, to take the beating and humiliate themselves and disrespect themselves to go into the campaign and support the predator who destroyed them." (End of quote) http://usuncut.com/politics/jill-stein-blasts-dnc-email-leak/

(I note that Dr. Cornell West has endorsed Jill Stein for President of the United States)

CNN quote: Activist and professor Cornel West endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Thursday, calling her the "only progressive woman in the race" in a jab at Hillary Clinton.) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/15/politics/jill-stein-green-party-cornel-west-endorsement/

Quote from Dr Cornel West: “This November, we need change........That’s why I am supporting Jill Stein. I am with her the only progressive woman in the race – because we’ve got to get beyond this lock-jaw situation. I have a deep love for my brother Bernie Sanders, but I disagree with him on Hillary Clinton. I don’t think she would be an “outstanding president”. Her militarism makes the world a less safe place.”

(Update 10 August 2016)
Quote from People Magazine:
"Bernie Sanders Buys His Third Home – A $600K Summer Retreat in Vermont

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has a new home away from home. The former White House contender is now the proud owner of a nearly $600,000 summer retreat on Vermont's Champlain Islands, the Vermont newspaper Seven Days reported Monday.

Sanders' new home, located on a waterfront camp in the small town of North Hero, has four bedrooms and 500 feet of beachfront on Lake Champlain. " http://www.people.com/article/bernie-sanders-600k-summer-home-vermont

Bernie, I am never going to listen to another word you sir say. I can't. You broke my heart, man and it's just too painful for me to hear you say to vote for Hillary Clinton even one more time. So any time you say anything I am going to turn away from you because it's just too painful man not to. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me for that but man, that's the way it's got to be in this pushed to the wall game of survival, but man oh man, that's the way it's got to be. I had expected that even if you lost the nomination that we would part as friends but now I have to recognize you were never my friend. Even Ralph Nader said you must have known in the circumstances that if you ran as a Democrat, instead of a third party candidate who would endorse the Democratic nominee, basically it looked to him like you were out there finding future voters for Hillary all along and Chris Hedges basically said the same thing about you but I never believed it Bernie. I thought, no way that is not Bernie Sanders and honestly I still don't want to believe it but now I'm confused and I honestly don't know what to believe about you anymore sir.

You sir could have honorably simply ended your campaign and no one ever would have thought any less of you Bernie but when you endorsed crooked Hillary and told us to vote for her, it was clear you loved your political career more than you loved us, and more than you loved the movement to build a new America. It was clear that if you truly believed that Donald Trump was such an awful candidate you had to work to make sure he couldn't be elected, that you would have ran as an independent in the first place, as about 75% of your supporters and donors wanted you but you were never open to listening to them, that much is clear enough.

It was clear then as it is now that your political career in the U.S. Senate is more important to you than we are. As that now has become plain for anyone even a small child to see. We're just going to have to live with that because there is nothing else we can do, man. I can't say I will never forget you, I will say I honestly wish I could because it would hurt a lot less. If only I had never heard the name Bernie Sanders.

The pain that I am in today wouldn't exist, but neither would this new movement and at least that is something we can all be grateful for because the movement is bigger than you are Bernie. It's bigger than any of us. In fact it's as big as America from sea to shining sea. It's that thing we call the America dream that just won't die because what we have is it and each other and that's all we have to hold onto. It is who we are because we are the real America.

It's Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream'. It's hope. It's love. It's Mom and apple pie and baseball on a hot summer's day. It's the national anthem. It's unity. It's Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. It's the boy and girl next door. It's beautiful weddings. It's Saturday morning cartoons. It's smiling with a tear in your eye because no matter what, it's this place called America and the fact that we belong to it. It belongs to us.

For me Bernie Sanders as a great American belonged in that litany of true Americana. I always said from the first day I heard him, Bernie we love you man and we'll never forget you but today I wish we could. Only because it would hurt a whole lot less.

(Interview with Chris Hedges, 12th November 2015) Quote from Chris Hedges: (In referring to Bernie, he states he is)"...part of the Democratic Party and he sits in the caucus and he has seniority. The Democrats in a quid pro quo do not mount serious candidates against him in Vermont and in return, he does not support third party candidates.

Quote from Ralph Nader: (During the same program) "The Democratic establishment and co-operatives are amused by Bernie Sanders today, they're not fearful of him. They're amused, why are they amused? He's given up his bargaining power and he's says he is going to support the Democratic nominee and he's not going to go independent and he's not going to support a third party. So they're amused he's going to get more votes out for Hillary Clinton....

Chris Hedges: So let's say a scenario that you suggest plays out, which I expect it will, and it's one of the reasons I feel very critical of Bernie Sanders. So it does play out. What does that mean for us? This kind of amoral and physical collapse with Bernie Sanders selling out to the Clintons and the Democratic establishment. What are the consequences of that?

Nader: The consequences are he doesn't mean what he says, and therefore he'll come across as a betrayer of millions of people who went to his rallies and are telling pollsters he's our choice because he has entered into the two party prison and basically says I'll drop all of my principles because I think the Republicans are worse than the Democrats.

(Here's another story that deserves your attention. http://usuncut.com/politics/bernie-sanders-delegates-walkout-dnc/)

PS: Your supporters and donors Bernie call on you to repudiate and rescind on your endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Though we accept you're unlikely to do that because you don't listen to us and you don't consult even though we've given you our money, our labor and our love.

In response to some emails I received after writing this article, I make the following update. For whatever it's worth before endorsing crooked Hillary, shouldn't Bernie have at least communicated with us as his supporters? Don't get me wrong. He is a grown up and he doesn't need our permission but he did say the movement wasn't about him but about us. So why didn't he ever communicate with us before endorsing her? Is that why he genuinely looked shocked when his supporters on stage booed him for five minutes non-stop? Him on that stage that day will be the memory that we all keep... Goodbye Bernie Sanders! ©