Publisher’s note: Vermont junior Senator Bernie Sanders is the US’ most popular national political figure in poll after poll. Yet, he and his campaign staff have spent the last 3 years dithering while US burns, and the corporatist Democratic Party continues to throw the BS campaign under the bus. We’ve covered here exactly HOW the DNC and the Clintonistas destroyed BS’ successful insurgent 2016 presidential campaign, and HOW we can avoid “electile dysfunction” both here in Vermont and nationally (Hint #1: a low tech, high human approach is the solution). IF Bernie were to run in 2020 as as an independent on a 3rd party platform (Hint #2: convince Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard – the articulate, charismatic US war veteran and woman of color – to be your running mate), he’d blow up the US of Empire’s grotesque two party duopoly, secure his name and fame in the history books, and offer a genuine alternative to US imperial business as usual. With this past week-end’s announcement of Bernie’s heart attack, he is now vulnerable to corporate commercial media charges that he is too old to run and serve as president. Time to prove ’em wrong, and mount a THIRD PARTY independent campaign for the presidency! He has NOTHING to lose. Look, we don’t have a dawg in this fight, given Plan ‘V’ and Vermont’s emerging independence movement. But we Vermont nationalists like the US, too, and we believe very deeply in US ideals, no matter how flawed US has been in executing them. So – stop “sheepdogging” progressives into a collapsing Democratic party, Bernie, and take off the gloves. You have nothing to lose but your chains. Free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States!