Bernie Sanders Shuns Joining Democrats: "I Will Finish This Term As An Independent"

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: ZERO HEDGE

URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-17/bernie-sanders-shuns-democrats-i-will-finish-term-independent


In yet another slap in the face of the Democratic party, The Hill reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won’t officially join the Democratic Party even though he was appointed to a leadership position within the Senate Democratic caucus this week.

"I was elected as an Independent and I will finish this term as an Independent,” Sanders said at a breakfast Thursday morning hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

Sanders has long caucused with Democrats as an independent. That has annoyed some Democrats as Sanders’s star has risen on the left. They are frustrated by his influence within a party that he refuses to embrace.

Sanders has acknowledged that he is still foggy on what the new role will entail, but sketched out his early thoughts on how he might handle it.

“The real action to transform America won’t take place on Capitol Hill, it will be in the grassroots America among millions struggling economically and young people,” Sanders said.

“I initially understand my role to be to get those people into the political process to demand the U.S. congress and government and president, represent all of the people and not just those on top. I’m excited about it, but how we go about it I don’t know,” he added.

 

“Why is it that tens of millions of poor people, young people and working people don’t get involved in the political process? One of the goals is to bring people into politics and make them aware it’s not just Election Day, but the other 364 days of the year are also important.”

A great disturbance in the farce just occurred, as if millions of democrat-in-name voices cried out in terror... and were suddenly silenced.

So who will run in 2020 for the Democrats? Ellen? Tom Hanks? Oprah?

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

So the guy insists on running in the Dem primary and cannot understand why he lost but he refuses to join the Democrats? 

[Maj. Bill Martin]

So the guy insists on running in the Dem primary and cannot understand why he lost but he refuses to join the Democrats? 

Well, you could analogize it him dipping his toe in the water of a hot tub, finding himself being grabbed and subjected to the Ned Beatty/Deliverance treatment, and then refusing an invitation to give it another chance.

Can't say I blame him.

[SirLinksALot]

So the guy insists on running in the Dem primary and cannot understand why he lost but he refuses to join the Democrats? 

He already got his $600,000 house near the lake after he endorsed Hillary.

[Night Hides Not]

So the guy insists on running in the Dem primary and cannot understand why he lost but he refuses to join the Democrats? 

I'll bet Bernie really regrets giving Hillary a pass on the emails during that first debate. He had a better chance of beating Trump than Hillary.

[Night Hides Not]

He already got his $600,000 house near the lake after he endorsed Hillary.

Who said socialism isn't profitable?

[Wingnut]

Comrade Sanders has a nice Dacha there in socialist republic of Vermont.
Come up and see him sometime Dahling

[Cyber Liberty]

I can't blame him.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

He already got his $600,000 house near the lake after he endorsed Hillary.

He's always dreamed of having a Dacha on the Volga.

[Night Hides Not]

He's always dreamed of having a Dacha on the Volga.

I had an apartment on the Mosel...



After getting married and having three kids, it's just a distant memory...

However, I'm only an hour away from a nice winery away from the hustle and bustle, so it's not all bad...



Ol' Bernie can have his dacha. It's been 80 degrees here lately.