“The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.”
— Napoleon
Our strength is inferior? I already hear the cries of “Blasphemy!” But if blasphemy it be, so be it.
To put it most simply, we in the Sanders movement are up against a Democratic Party Establishment backed by Wall Street, funded by corporate America, entrenched in the corridors of power. Their bullshit is blasted out night and day from every nook and cranny.
Are we therefore powerless? Far from it. We have had an astonishingly effective grassroots campaign organization. But a campaign organization is a very fragile and unwieldy beast. It is designed to (obviously) run electoral campaigns. It is not designed for doing much else.
Yesterday (June 7) was a hard blow. Yes, our votes were stolen in so many ways. The last minute media barrage declaring Hillary the winner probably cost us many, many votes. We have had the weapons of the most powerful political Establishment the earth has ever seen arrayed against us. We have every right to hold our heads up with justified pride in FORCING that Establishment to pull out all its stops. It leaves them having to ask themselves, “What can we do for an encore?”
People are so concerned about the well-being of Bernie Sanders, you know, those working class heroes such as the Wall Street Journal, passed on by 
First they quote a Democratic stalwart:
So apart from getting out the word for this round of primaries, we need to be letting Bernie know very directly that we have his back. I don’t need to repeat the litany of principled issues that separate our campaign from the DNC machine. Just take a minute to let the campaign know that we’re in it for the long haul. Call them. e-mail them. Facebook them. Let Bernie know that this is why we fight today! This is why we fight through the Philadelphia Convention! This is why we fight through November! This is why we fight until we win!
— Jeff Roby
With a sincere “thank you” to the January 1973 National Lampoon!
The opening moves have been played. The fight has taken shape. We are well into the middle-game.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!
Millions have been energized, enlisted and mobilized into the Sanders campaign under the banner of the Political Revolution. But as Charlotte Corday sang in the play Marat/Sade, “change meant one thing to you I see / And something quite different to me.”
