Hillary Clinton

So, Bern, here's my plan of action for you:

First: negotiate with Clinton to push her as far left as possible on policy and then endorse her — soon. Then get out there and tell everyone to vote for her. Don't just send emails. You don't have to stump together holding hands, like Elizabeth Warren does, but make speeches in support of her and connect with voters in person encouraging them to vote for her. Do this across the country, especially in swing states, for five months.

If that feels like a bitter pill to swallow, you can wash it down by supporting down-ballot candidates who are more closely aligned with your values and political vision. You recently said that you want your followers to keep the political revolution alive by voting for progressive candidates down to the lowest levels of government. While this is welcomed, it's also frustrating because you should have been doing this all along. You liked to say that creating a revolution isn't a one-man job, but you didn't back up this claim. It took you until April to throw your weight behind anyone. Many other little-known candidates who could have benefitted from your popularity and fundraising prowess — including Pennsylvania's senatorial candidate John Fetterman — you all but ignored. You can make it up to them, and to us, by continuing to not only endorse progressive candidates in name, but also by fundraising for them, stumping for them, and if necessary, putting the money we, your contributors, gave you to work for their campaigns.

Lastly, please accept that you are partly responsible for not winning the nomination. Yes, Clinton had superdelegates and the entire political establishment on her side. Yes, the corporate media sandbagged you and, as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! pointed out, ruined the election for all of us by letting it be turned into a reality show. But you didn't win because not enough people voted for you — and that's partially due to your own mistakes. There is a concept in feminism called intersectionality. First coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, it's the idea that systems of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, overlap and interact constantly and dynamically. Time and again, you failed to connect the dots between your campaign's primary issues and other injustices. You alienated potential supporters by not listening well enough to people of color or to women or to other groups who don't see everything through a class lens.