Getting to be a self-righteous as well as sore loser

Well, I guess in his own way he always was self-righteous.

Bernie Sanders explains his primary losses: 'Poor people don't vote'

And when they do they vote for Hillary, too bad, so sad.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders reframed his role in the race on Sunday and explained that he has lost primaries in 16 states with high income inequality “because poor people don’t vote”.

Without wavering from his campaign’s insistence that he has a “path to victory”, the senator from Vermont said his goal was to increase voter participation in politics.

“I mean, that’s just a fact,” Sanders said in an interview with NBC News, in response to a question about his losses in states with a large wealth gap. 

“That’s a sad reality of American society. And that’s what we have to transform.”

Sanders has predicated his campaign on a promise to assuage growing wealth and income inequality in the US, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Yet Clinton, owing in part to stalwart support from African Americans, has notched big victories in southern states with some of the lowest median incomes in the country. 

She has also defeated Sanders in states with vast inequality, including in the New York primary vote last Tuesday.

And doesn't this get the cart before the horse?

“If we can significantly increase voter turnout so that low-income people and working people and young people participated in the political process, if we got a voter turnout of 75%, this country would be radically transformed,” Sanders said.

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Earlier in the day he told CNN that greater participation in elections by low-income and working class voters would “revitalize American democracy”.

Looks like he's down, now, to one issue that really sticks in his socialist craw.

Sanders declined an invitation from CNN’s host to engage in the speculation about who might be chosen to run as a vice-presidential candidate for the eventual nominees.

“I think that Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump needs to start talking to the real issue facing the American people, and that is that we have a vast level of income inequality,” Sanders said.