...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
says the sad reality in American society is that "poor people don’t vote" and that’s the reason he has lost the primary elections in 17 states with high income inequality.
Sanders also decried the low voter turnout in US elections during an interview filmed Saturday in Baltimore and aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Dean Rusk...
has won the primaries in 17 out of the 25 states with the highest income inequality, "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd told the Vermont senator.
"Because poor people don’t vote," sanders replied. "I mean, that’s just a fact; that’s a sad reality of American society and that’s what we have to transform."
| ...poor people, young people, busy people who trust that it doesn't matter all that much who thinks they're running the country... That's so everywhere voting isn't mandatory. |
| The way he said that makes it sound like that's another "fact" the honourable senator invented out of thin air. |