April 3, 2017

Deb Della Piana

105 Pond Street
Stoneham, MA 02180

Senator Bernard Sanders

Dirksen Senate Office Building
332 2nd Street N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Sanders:

This is a difficult letter for me to write. I was a supporter from day one of your campaign. Not only did
I work to get you elected, but my partner and I supported your campaign financially, and I converted a
lot of people to your cause. However, I cannot follow you down your current path, and I am now
advising others to abandon your efforts. I am writing to tell you why. I am not the only one with this
perspective. There are many others, and we now need to be heard.

We cannot reconcile your policy positions from the campaign to your present status within a
compromised, corrupt party. Not only did you, after promising your followers a floor challenge, turn
around and endorse a woman whose policies are diametrically opposed to your own, but a woman
whose campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee, stole the election from the American
people. We overwhelmingly did not want Hillary Clinton. She won because the Democrats engineered
her win. No, I'm wrong on that. They didn't engineer it. They committed election fraud. They
disenfranchised voters. They indulged in voter suppression. They violated election laws in more than
one state by allowing Bill Clinton on site to campaign for his wife. Whatever they had to do to ensure a
Wall Street shill would be elected, they did. And when the going got tough at the end, you were brought
to heel. This is our perspective, because we've never been told otherwise.

Still, in spite of all this, the voters are being blamed for Donald Trump's rise. That, sir, is pure bull.
Donald Trump is here because the Democrats made this possible with their failed Clinton strategy of
encouraging his candidacy, both directly to him and through the corporate-owned media. They did this
because they felt she couldn't possibly lose, even when the polls were screaming otherwise. This is
what happens when you sell out to corporate masters. The Democratic Party is now a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the one percent and Wall Street. There will be NO revolution from within the Democratic
party led by Senator Schumer and Representative Pelosi, and you are misleading the people once again.
Every attempt at that made over the past two decades has failed miserably, and it will fail again.

As a matter of record, we do not see electing the same Democrats over and over as a solution to Donald
Trump. As we see it, he is a symptom of a very sick system that has run its course. It no longer works
for the vast majority of American citizens. I feel like I can say that. I am sixty-three years old. I have
been everywhere in this life: I have made very good money working for a corporation for twenty-four
years of my life, only to be let go. I have had comfort, and I have lost it all. I was homeless in my late
forties and early fifties with two disabled children. I managed to get myself out of that mess, no thanks
to the government. I feel grateful for one thing, though. I've been able to benefit from Obama's great
economic recovery and the jobs he added to the economy. I've been able to deliver newspapers to and
food shop for people forty years younger than me to earn a living. Pretty soon I might be adding
driving for Uber to the list. I'm not saying I'm a martyr. I'm not. What I am saying is that there are more
of me than there are you, and we deserve better than this.

I hope when you speak of revolution you are defining the term loosely. What you are doing is not
what a revolution looks like. A revolutionary leader doesn't return to those he is battling to continue the
revolution. What you did was not lead a revolution. You ran a political campaign. A revolution would
have been a challenge to the primary outcome, Senator Sanders. You did not challenge election fraud at
the highest level, thereby legitimizing it. Therefore, it continues. I am sure you are aware of what just
happened in Philadelphia where the Democratic victor is being investigated for electioneering, voter
suppression and voter intimidation. This is the party that will bring about a revolution in politics? I'm
interested in hearing that plan in detail, frankly.

What we need in America is more choice, not the two-party duopoly. No matter how we vote now,
we're losers on both sides of the aisle. For years the two parties have kept new voices out of the game.
That needs to change. I supported you as an Independent voter, not a Democrat. I will never follow you
back to the party and am now dedicating all my free time to bringing together as many third-party
representatives that I can to try to establish a new voice for the people that operates outside of the
beltway cesspool.

I do not expect a response, nor do I want a canned response. Thanks for your time. I wish you the best
of luck, Senator Sanders. If I am somehow wrong about all of this, I will write you and apologize. Time
will tell.

Sincerely,

Deb Della Piana