🚨 One Day After My Open Letter, Bernie Sanders Calls Gaza a Genocide — the Only US Senator to Do So

55% of Americans say genocide, 77% of Democrats say genocide — but just 1% of the Senate. The odds of that happening naturally are less than 1 in a decillion. Yeah, that's a real number.

Why I Need You Today

Family, I need to tell you something extraordinary.

Yesterday, I published my open letter to Bernie Sanders. I wrote it as a friend, as someone who has stood with him, campaigned with him, and believed in him. I wrote it out of pain because I felt he was standing on the wrong side of history.

Today — one day later — Bernie Sanders has publicly called Gaza what it is: a genocide.

That matters. But it also exposes something deeply troubling. Bernie Sanders is now the only United States Senator to use that word. He is 1 out of 100.

And that is not just disappointing. If the Senate reflected the American people, it would be mathematically impossible. I’ll explain what I mean below.

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The Courage and the Loneliness

When Bernie finally said the word genocide, he cited the same authorities you and I have been pointing to for months — the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, and the United Nations.

He read their reports. He looked at the data. He quoted the evidence. And then he said: “I agree.”

Family, that took courage. But it also leaves him standing alone in the Senate chamber — surrounded by ninety-nine colleagues who refuse to say what the world already knows.

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What the People Already Know

Bernie is not ahead of the people. He is finally catching up to them.

55% of all Americans already call Gaza a genocide. Among Democrats, the number is 77%. Among Bernie’s own supporters, it’s closer to 90%.

If the Senate reflected the people even a little, fifty-five Senators would already be using the word. Instead, we have one.

I spent some time thinking about the mathematical odds of only 1 United States Senator out of 100 calling it a genocide when 55% of all Americans do so. Here’s what I found…

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The Impossible Odds

So let’s talk math. Because this isn’t just morally outrageous — it is statistically impossible.

If you picked one hundred random Americans, you’d expect about fifty-five to say Gaza is genocide. That’s what polls and surveys determine. So, what are the odds that only one of them would say it, while ninety-nine stayed silent?

• Probability a random person does not say genocide: 45%.

• Probability that 99 out of 100 wouldn’t say it: 0.45^99 ≈ 3 × 10^-35.

• Multiply that by the chance of exactly 1 saying it, and you get ≈ 7 × 10^-34.

That number is so small it’s hard to comprehend. It’s like 1 chance in 10^33 — a one followed by 33 zeros.

For scale:

• Odds of winning the Powerball jackpot: 1 in 300 million.

• Odds of flipping a coin heads 100 times in a row: 1 in 1.27 × 10^30.

• Odds of the Senate mirroring the people but producing Bernie as the lone voice: even smaller.

This is not 1 in a million. It’s not 1 in a billion. It’s closer to 1 in a decillion.
That’s 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Those are the odds of having a Senate arrive at such a conclusion naturally.

In plain English: it is impossible. The only reason it happens is because the Senate is not a reflection of democracy — it is a reflection of money and lobbying.

Do you understand what I am saying? It’s not mathematically possible, without outside interference, that only 1 in 100 Senators call it a genocide.

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Bought and Paid For

This is the glaring truth: the Senate does not represent the American people. It represents AIPAC. It represents billionaires. It represents the lobbyists who fund campaigns and flood elections with cash.

How else can you explain 55% of Americans saying genocide, 77% of Democrats saying genocide, and yet 99 out of 100 Senators refusing the word?

It is not democracy. It is not chance. It is corruption.

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Family, Pause With Me Here

If you believe this must be shouted, please share this post right now. Do not let silence win.

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The Meaning of Bernie’s Word

I am glad Bernie said it. And I am proud that our open letter was part of the chorus that pushed him there. But family, words are not enough.

Naming genocide must lead to real things: a ceasefire now, full humanitarian access, an end to U.S. arms shipments, and accountability for those responsible. It’s my hope that more of his colleagues will now join him and that he will become the first domino of many.

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The Weight of History

When Rwanda unfolded, the world ducked the word genocide. When Srebrenica fell, leaders danced around it. They were condemned for it.

Today, in Gaza, the people already see genocide. The UN says genocide. The world’s leading scholars say genocide. And yet 99 Senators remain silent.

That silence will be remembered in the same breath as the failures of Rwanda and Bosnia. History will not forget who spoke and who stayed quiet.

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Stand With Me Against Silence

Bernie has spoken the word. Now we must make sure he — and every other leader — acts on it.

Mainstream outlets will downplay this. They will treat it as rhetoric. But here, we tell the truth: naming genocide is the beginning, not the end.

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Silence is complicity. Silence is complicity.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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