“I donated over $1,000 to [Sanders’] campaign,” lamented Kara, a nurse from Cedar Rapids, Iowa and a Camp Bernie resident. “When [Bernie] Sanders asked to suspend parliamentary procedure and give all the delegates to [Hillary Clinton], it was heartbreaking,” the artist and bartender from Omaha, Nebraska recalled, methodically rolling a joint as a “FEEL THE BERN” flag fluttered overhead. “I still think Bernie is going to end up with it,” said Charles Brave, a delegate from Charleston, South Carolina, said on the convention floor. In conversations at Camp Bernie and around the convention, many Sanders supporters seemed to be processing all five stages of the Kubler-Ross grief model at the same time: expressing denial, anger, sadness, acceptance and even a little bargaining. Reedy was one of hundreds, if not thousands, of Sanders supporters to descend upon campgrounds in the rural outskirts of Philadelphia this week, where they set up a base of operations in RVs, tents and all manner of makeshift lean-tos.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2016 18:45 UTC