Well, Bernie Bros, the time has come. Cue “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” by Boyz II Men on your playlist, because Bernie Sanders’s campaign is essentially over. Yes, Bernie Sanders is technically still in, and yes, the Vermont Senator hasn’t officially dropped out yet. But quite frankly (at least in my opinion) Sanders continuing his campaign when he mathematically has no path to the nomination is a bit childish. Like a teenager at her sweet sixteen party throwing a fit because her centerpieces were too mauve and not enough lavender. But I digress.
So what now? Well, for one, the woman that many Bernie bros--for really no good reason at all--so vehemently refused to vote for, despite being 93% similar in policy, is now the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. Feeling down? Never fear. Here are a few ways to cope.
Please stop with the conspiracy theories
Primary rigging. Clinton supporters infiltrating the Sanders ranks. Voter fraud. Despite Clinton winning more primaries in more states by a margin of over 3.7 million votes, winning more delegates, and--most importantly--winning more pledged delegates. These accusations are really getting out of hand. The sooner people realize that this election contains way bigger problems than mudslinging (i.e., That Guy), the sooner the anti-That Guy movement can take hold to defeat him.
Take a moment to step back and realize what a momentous moment this is
In 2008, Hillary Clinton came up short in winning her party’s nomination. In her concession speech, she thanked her supporters for leaving “18 million cracks”--the number of Americans who voted for her-- in the glass ceiling. Eight years later to the night of that speech, Clinton clinched the nomination and delivered her acceptance speech in Brooklyn under a literal glass ceiling.
She did so in her adopted home state of New York, the state that birthed the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, which sparked the modern women’s movement. Even back then, having a woman as leader of the free world seemed the ultimate impossibility of impossibilities. Case in point: just this week, after President Obama self-identified as a feminist at this year’s United States of Women conference, the President was slammed with homophobic and incendiary comments questioning his sexuality. Because apparently to some Americans, the idea that women deserve every right a man has somehow equates with homosexuality.
Yet before us, a woman has claimed the first major party nomination for the highest office in the land. Think about that for a moment. 240 years after our Founding Fathers wrote that all of us are created equal, almost a century after women gained suffrage, a woman has cracked her party’s highest and hardest glass ceiling.
Look at the other side and ask yourself some honest questions
Do you really want The Other Guy as your president? Really?
There’s nothing left I can say about That Guy that hasn’t been said already. Even the Senator agrees--we can’t have this man in the White House. Sanders promises he will work with Clinton to do everything possible to make sure the Republican presumptive nominee will not get to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He’s with her every step of the way, and if you want to avoid flushing $25 billion down the toilet for a wall that does nothing to solve the bulk of our immigration problems, then you probably should be too.
And if you really can’t bring yourself to abandon the #BernieOrBust wagon, if you really had your sights set on Sanders one day addressing the nation from the grounds of the White House, here you go. Happy? Awesome. Now let’s get to work.
So what’s next on the playlist? How about “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by Steam.




















