{"id":34511,"date":"2018-12-29T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34511"},"modified":"2018-12-29T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:08:23","slug":"not-going-to-feel-the-bern-sen-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34511","title":{"rendered":"Not going to &#8216;feel the Bern,&#8217; Sen. Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34512\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bernie-sanders-ap-mo-20180413_hpMain_4x3_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am baffled as to why U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders even is in the conversation about whether he should run for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make two quick points: He ran for the 2016 party nomination and lost it to Hillary Rodham Clinton. His platform this time around seems to mirror the mantra he recited in 2016 &#8212; which is that too few people control too much wealth. This self-proclaimed &#8220;democratic socialist&#8221; wants to redistribute the wealth to more of us. I guess I&#8217;m too much of a capitalist to buy into that notion.<\/p>\n<p>My second point? Sanders isn&#8217;t even a Democrat. He ran for the U.S. Senate from Vermont as an independent. He doesn&#8217;t belong to a political party, although he does caucus with the Senate Democrats. He votes with them almost without fail. Still, he isn&#8217;t a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>So why is this guy talking about running again for the Democratic Party presidential nomination?<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, why aren&#8217;t the media calling him out more vigorously on the phony association he has with a political party to which he doesn&#8217;t even belong?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t run, Bernie. Leave the political stage to other politicians who have more to say than you do.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am baffled as to why U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders even is in the conversation about whether he should run for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. I want to make two quick points: He ran for the 2016 party nomination and lost it to Hillary Rodham Clinton. His platform this time around seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not going to &#8216;feel the Bern,&#8217; Sen. 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