{"id":10946,"date":"2014-11-18T12:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:56:04","slug":"bernie-sanders-remarks-on-2014-election-results-sound-familiar-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10946","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders’ Remarks on 2014 Election Results Sound Familiar [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

For what it’s worth, just a quick note in response to some of the folks who either disagreed with or were otherwise disgruntled by my observation over the weekend explaining why I believe that “Not Voting IS a Vote”<\/a>, following the 36% voter turnout during the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Though I said I thought it was a “dumb vote”, I also noted that “it was a landslide”. The central part of my argument, in response to politicians and pundits who blame the American people (rather than themselves) for the fact that 64% of the registered electorate didn’t turn out, was this:<\/p>\n

Americans did<\/i> vote. They voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole by not<\/i> voting. You may not like that point, it may even make you angry, but it needs to be said. Neither party earned<\/i> the vote of the majority of the American people.<\/div>\n

Some seem a bit irritated with me for pointing that out. But on Monday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was on The Colbert Report<\/i> (full interview posted below<\/i>), making a pretty impressive play for a Presidential run in 2016.<\/p>\n

During the conversation, Colbert asked him for a response to the “Red Tide” results of the 2014 elections and whether it signaled bad news for Democrats as a rejection of “liberal philosophy”. Here was Sanders’ concise answer:<\/p>\n

What I think really happened is about 64% of the American people rejected the two-party system. They rejected Washington as it now functions. They rejected a political system and a Congress which spends more time representing the wealthy and the powerful than ordinary Americans.<\/div>\n

Hmm. Sounds familiar.<\/p>\n

(Don’t hate the playa; hate the game.)<\/p>\n

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Colbert’s complete 11\/17\/2014 interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders follows below…<\/i><\/p>\n

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