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Bernie Sanders reaffirms his lack of respect for democracy

By kos
Tuesday May 31, 2016 · 1:14 PM CDT

Voters? They had their chance and voted wrong.


Bernie Sanders is still praying for a superdelegate coup that will never happen.

Bernie Sanders reaffirmed Sunday that he is not planning to accept defeat in the primary race until the Democratic Party's convention in July, regardless of the outcome of the June 7 primaries, which include delegate-rich California and New Jersey.


The system is rigged—the first states were lily white, giving Sanders an early boost. He’s gotten 46 percent of the delegates while garnering only 43 percent of the popular vote. He’s benefited from low-turnout, undemocratic caucuses when subsequent higher-participation primaries delivered strikingly different results in Washington and Nebraska. And now, even with all those structural advantages, he still wants the supers to steal the election for him.

Ultimately, what surprises me most isn’t Sanders’ autocratic tendencies. It’s that so many people are playing along, as if democracy is optional.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/31/1532881/-Bernie-Sanders-reaffirms-his-lack-of-respect-for-democracy