Something bothers me about this
What bothers me is he's giving advice to a party that he quit on.
Why didn't he stay in our party?
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having trouble reconciling this with over 40 years of castigating Democrats for corruption and lack of principles. ALL Democrats. Even the progressive caucuses.
Like when Sanders was first elected to the house and the house progressive caucus was all excited to get a new member. The leader met with Sanders to welcome him, and... I wish I remember the description -- it was good 
, but by the time they parted he was apparently pretty much spitting with disgust and anger at his first dose of Sanders' signature contempt for any views, goals, or methods that deviate from his.
Needless to say, Sanders...little quirks have always kept him from achieving any stature or leadership in the senate, and his colleagues ignored him as much as possible. Insulting gadflies aren't exactly anyone's choice to have lunch with. Strangely, people just don't like being called corrupt, especially in public and to voters.
Sadly, NONE of his colleagues endorsed Sanders for president. It wouldn't have been disgust at him suddenly wanting to call himself a despised Democrat in order to get party funding, transport, the appeal to voters of presenting himself as a Democratic Party leader instead of a self-isolated grouch. They already knew him.
Perhaps it's a more serious, less temporary dependency relationship? Could that be? After all, in spite of despising Democrats and priding himself on officially rejecting the party, his formula of badmouthing Democrats from an imaginary height while almost always voting Democrat (!) has worked for his voters, who've reelected him to the U.S. Senate for over a quarter century.
Maybe that's what people are thinking of when they say his heart is with Democrats? Only $174,000 a year, but the benefits are truly spectacular.
...should have remained a Democrat, in my opinion... he would get more consideration for his ideas about super-delegates.
