Here's Bernie Sanders's official endorsement of Hillary Clinton, in full

[the-pi-guy]

Let me also thank the hundreds of thousands of volunteers in every state in our country who worked so hard on our campaign and the millions of our contributors who showed the world that we could run a successful national campaign based on small individual contributions – 2.5 million of them.

Together, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution continues. Together, we continue the fight to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.

I am proud of the campaign we ran here in New Hampshire and across the country. Our campaign won the primaries and caucuses in 22 states, and when the roll call at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia is announced it will show that we won almost 1,900 delegates. That is a lot of delegates, far more than almost anyone thought we could win. But it is not enough to win the nomination. Secretary Clinton goes into the convention with 389 more pledged delegates than we have and a lot more super delegates.

Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that. She will be the Democratic nominee for president and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.

I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8 in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world. I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president.

During the last year I had the extraordinary opportunity to speak to more than 1.4 million Americans at rallies in almost every state in this country. I was also able to meet with many thousands of other people at smaller gatherings. And the profound lesson that I have learned from all of that is that this campaign is not really about Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, or any other candidate who sought the presidency. This campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face. And there is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that.

Here's Bernie Sanders's official endorsement of Hillary Clinton, in full - Vox


A lot of Sanders fans are really pissed.  

[Raven]

Here's Bernie Sanders's official endorsement of Hillary Clinton, in full - Vox


A lot of Sanders fans are really pissed.  

Of course they are. They've been actively deluding themselves for months that Sanders was winning. They believed he was going to fight until the Democrats said, "no". They've spewed all kinds of rhetoric about how evil Clinton is and Sanders encouraged them. Now he's endorsing her after she made a couple promises I doubt she'll keep.

[the-pi-guy]

I just don't understand how being "anti-establishment" is the most important thing to people.  

[kitler53]

I just don't understand how being "anti-establishment" is the most important thing to people.  

i dunno either.  the establishment has been good to most of us.  even where there are flaws most people are better with the establishment than without.

[Raven]

I just don't understand how being "anti-establishment" is the most important thing to people.  

It's easy when a politician like Sanders paints you a picture of "The Establishment" as something that stands for everything you're against or "should be". He created the most vile boogeyman he could and then told people he was their hero. The only one who could save them. Now he just endorsed one of the "monsters" of "The Establishment".

[the-pi-guy]

It's easy when a politician like Sanders paints you a picture of "The Establishment" as something that stands for everything you're against or "should be". He created the most vile boogeyman he could and then told people he was their hero. The only one who could save them. Now he just endorsed one of the "monsters" of "The Establishment".

That still doesn't make sense to me.  It's like a lot of these people are so stuck on "the establishment", whatever they think that is, that they'd rather vote for Donald Trump.  Who is practically the opposite of Bernie in basically every other way.  

Are these people telling me they'd even vote for Hitler if he said he was anti-establishment?

[Aura7541]

That still doesn't make sense to me.  It's like a lot of these people are so stuck on "the establishment", whatever they think that is, that they'd rather vote for Donald Trump.  Who is practically the opposite of Bernie in basically every other way. 

Are these people telling me they'd even vote for Hitler if he said he was anti-establishment?

The criticism against the establishment of both parties is their tendencies towards authoritarianism and group think, albeit different kinds of them. Hillary was criticized for her corporatism leanings as shown from the paid talks by large banks. She also has a rather shady history when she was Secretary of State such as the intervention in Libya in spite of Saif al-Islam's efforts of turning the Libyan government into a constitutional democracy. Her SJW-esque lecturing on white people after the shooting of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile isn't helping either.

Donald Trump is far from being anti-authoritarian, but the Republican establishment is worse. The GOP desperately trying to get rid of him and the lack of a proper vote in the Colorado primary are good examples. Most of Trump's campaign funds weren't from PACs or super-PACs. And for better or worse, Trump's positions sometimes deviate from the establishment's. Also, it's pretty funny when he pisses of SJWs

As for Hitler, well he actually has quite a bit of establishment qualities. Difference is that he gets his dissenters killed while the establishment shuns the anti-establishment candidates and skew the system in its favor.