Bernie Sanders Was Never Going To Run As An Independent

Sanders ran as a Dem for a reason.  And he was never going to run as an I.  (Sanders & Stein was never happening, though I would encourage all the good Sanders supporters to canvas and vote for Jill Stein.  She's cool.)  Sanders chose the Democratic Party primary, and he'll stay right where he is.  Now, what the fuck happens after the November election, that is an entirely different question.  There will very likely be plenty of opportunities to get active and reshape American politics in the wake of Trump's destruction of the GOP.  Sanders will not have much of a role in it, but maybe some of the Sanders supporters and other good folks out there who learned some hard political lessons during the primaries just might find something useful to do.  The second-best thing Clinton could do would be to push Sanders supporters and other like-minded Americans to make sure they stay politically active to fight the hard-right militarism and reactionary economic and social policies of the Hillary Clinton administration.