Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has started a revolution. Or did he? This career politician from New England launched a presidential campaign and his supporters worshiped him. He was the golden calf, so to speak, to many people.

But, outside Vermont or the left-wing of the liberty movement, who supported him all these decades? Nowhere near as much as his campaign supporters today. Almost as if the support had grown overnight some 2015 evening.

Senator Sanders ran a campaign of progressive values and outsider politics. He called out former senator and state secretary Hillary Clinton for her pro-war, pro-Wall Street, anti-civil liberties, and corrupt career in politics.

On July 12, over a week prior to the Democratic National Convention of 2016, that mini-movement ended as we know it. Bernie Sanders endorsed the very neocon, corporatist candidate he railed against for over a year.

The modern progressive movement had anti-progressive leaders over its history. In the beginning, presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, and political boss William Jennings Bryan carried the movement to the national stage.

Roosevelt was a warmongering president who was an avid member of the establishment since after his bloodthirsty days as a soldier in imperial wars. Taft and Wilson were supporters of the big banks and corporations - even though, like Roosevelt, they labored under the guise of an anti-trust platform. Bryan was a devout member of the establishment.

This generation created the very central banking system, the Federal Reserve, that Bernie Sanders from the 1990s until 2013 fought against. Alongside Dr. Ron Paul in congress, he worked Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke over in congressional hearings.

He went soft on that after 2013, going as far as gutting the very audit the Fed he clamored for during his tenure. No successful presidential candidate since the 1930s has campaigned on auditing the Fed. Senator Sanders didn't campaign on this issue.

That first generation ushered in the prohibition of alcohol - resources of which after the repeal were diverted to fighting precursors of the drug war. Senator Sanders from the 1990s until 2013 opposed the drug war, and was passionate about cannabis. Another issue he used to agree on with Dr. Paul but went soft on after 2013.

Under the "progressive presidents," war was commonplace. This is an issue Sanders had been passionate about for most of his life. He voiced peaceful solutions most of the time in congress. But after 2013, he voted for foreign policy interventions, more funding for war, and Israel-first policies.

Central banking, the drug war, and foreign policy are three major areas Sanders used to be on the side of the people on, despite the first modern progressives. These are also issues he vastly differs from his primary rival for president Hillary Clinton, who he endorsed.

Clinton is not only a friend of the Federal Reserve, but a Wall Street ally; she also supports the drug war, believing victimless acts should be punished; and she supports war more than even most Republicans and Democrats do, going as far as being part of some of President Obama's wars, sanctions, and other interventions.

With Dr. Paul, who led an even bigger movement starting in December 2007 which continues today, dubbed the Ron Paul Revolution (Bernie Sanders adopted the "rLOVEution" style from Paul), Sanders fought the corporations and politicians. He stopped when Paul retired from congress.

It should be noted, neither in 2008 or 2012 did Ron Paul endorse the GOP nominees after he lost those races. He personally and politically opposed both the liberal John McCain and the progressive Mitt Romney, endorsing third-party candidates instead.

Sanders endorsed not only a candidate he personally opposes, but continues to lie to his supporters. It seems the only progressive values he holds are stuck in social issues, some civil liberties, and the faux economic populism that actually helps the corporations.

His revolution died the moment he endorsed the antithesis of what he claimed to believe in. It also does not help that he has amassed his own wealth, been on the public dole for most of his life, and his own journalist past is devoid of fact-checking.

Dr. Ron Paul practices what he preaches, says what he means and means what he says, and is honest to a fault. Bernie Sanders, no matter his rhetoric, is nothing more or less than a career politician that his supporters would oppose if he had any other name.

Like Occupy Wall Street, the Bernie Sanders revolution died the way it was born - with a thunderous applause. Who will progressives turn to next? Sanders is a progressive in name only.