An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
Dear Bernie,
We love you and are working tirelessly to elect you. We realize it is an upHill battle. We know you are likely to back Hillary if she
wins the nomination. We respectfully ask
that you NOT do this. As much as we
respect you, we Bernie Or Busters will NEVER give her our vote, and our numbers
are growing daily. Doing so means
turning our back on the truth and everything we have worked for, everything you
represent.
This election has been rigged from its inception. We have seen huge voter fraud, suppression of
votes and vote flipping. It needs to be
investigated by an independent third party, not Clinton backers who have no
interest in finding the truth. It seems
apparent from watching the public meetings on the voting issues, that the
Democratic elected officials for Hillary are much more interested in covering
it up than finding the truth and fixing the fraud, suppression, and the errors.
We know that Hillary is does not care about Mother Earth and
our environment. From promoting fracking
to promoting the use of GMOs and the pesticides that accompany them (and which
are killing our honey bees and our soil), she is terrible for the planet. Global warming is more and more a threat to the
earth and our very existence. With her
in charge, I fear nothing will happen with the urgency necessitated by global warming.
We know what Clinton’s foreign policy looks like. We have had a taste of it while she was
Secretary of State. A Clinton presidency
not only would be a bad for our troops and our country but would likely be a
disaster for many countries around the world.
Hillary has been the direct or indirect cause of deaths of innocents in
Honduras, Libya and Iraq among other places.
We do not need her policies. We
do not need perpetual war and the human and financial costs associated with it. She has no empathy for the peoples of the
world. We see that with her refusal to even consider the Palestinian people.
We know she lies on the little things: sniper fire, college loans, immigrant
grandparents, $15 minimum wage, being dead broke (with an eight million dollar book
advance!) etc. If she will lie boldly to
our faces on the small things, she will definitely do it on the larger
things. Additionally, she withholds and
hides information (transcripts, personal server). One reason behind the personal server seems
to have been to avoid the FOIA requests.
Plus, she deleted thousands of e-mails that we now have to take her word
were personal e-mails. And we are very skeptical of her word. Hillary
is anything BUT transparent.
We want big money out of campaigns and out of party politics. She is the poster child for big money. Hillary
is beholden to big corporations, special interests and, through her foundation,
to countries who harbor terrorists, suppress women and execute gay and lesbians, countries whose human rights records are
abysmal overall. We wonder why all these
countries who received arms deals contribute so much to her foundation? We wonder if they would continue to
contribute large sums if she were not running for president? The answer seems obvious to us. We do not feel she will represent We The
People.
Hillary professes to be a feminist and to support other
women. We know this to be untrue because
of the way she has handled the women who have accused her husband of sexual
harassment, and even rape. She has
chosen to support her husband, a known perjurer, instead of confronting the
truth and treating these women with kindness and sympathy. Instead, she smeared these women and ruined
their reputations unfairly while Bill walks around as if nothing has happened. This is not a woman who supports other
women. Top this off with the fact that
the women at the Clinton Foundation also make less than the men. Significantly less. Yet she purports to be for equal pay for
equal work.
Hillary has never tried to compete on a level playing field during
this campaign. She has tilted the field
from the beginning with her relationship with the DNC and Debbie Wasserman
Shultz…a bought politician if we have ever seen one. The DNC is corrupt and that is evidenced by the
debate schedule, the Hillary Victory
Fund and the Super Delegates. She even
tilted the field her way with her cozy relationships with corporate America who
own the main stream media. This election
has never been fair and she has worked very hard to make sure that it has not.
Lastly, the youth of our country deserve to be heard. Hillary has insulted them at every turn. From essentially telling young women that she
deserved their vote because she is a woman too, to continually talking down to
them and all but ignoring the real issues that impact them, she has paid them a
great disservice. She has been condescending to young black
women and even had one who was a paying guest forced out of the event. Millennials see this and do
not approve, nor do we. Hillary
continually treats young people as if they have no substance, which is far from
the truth. They are the future of our
country and of the Democratic Party and they can choose to vote and to join the
Democrats, or not.
In conclusion, we do
not trust her. While we are in agreement
with her on a few issues, we are in disagreement with her on the most important
ones. Most of us are not beholden to the
Democratic party in any way and will not support her…not even to keep Donald
Trump out of the White House. While we
may think he will be bad for America,
we are virtually certain that she
will.
The Democratic party is likely to hemorrhage members after
this election is over. It no longer represents
us and, if Hillary becomes president, it likely never will. So, we will write in your name, no matter how
futile that may seem if you endorse her, or we will cast our votes for Dr Jill Stein of the Green
Party, a party that much better reflects your position on the issues than does
the Democratic Party of Hillary Clinton.
But we would rather legitimately vote for you, as an Independent if need
be.
Thank you for running and thank you for listening,
Connie Ehlmann
#BernieOrBust
