The Bernie Conundrum

Bernie Sanders’ official Senate photo is in the public domain

In the 2016 Democratic Party primaries, I was a supporter of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’s bid for the nomination. I contributed more to the Sanders cause than I have ever donated to a political candidate and I was outraged by the party’s shameless sabotage of his campaign.

In the election itself, I didn’t vote for either of the main candidates. I thought then, and still think, that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump…