Who is he talking to?

It makes sense in the context of working class roots or being the son of an immigrant. The other, not so much. Political rhetoric, I guess.

....of the Sandy Hook murders, or the families of the Charleston murders.

He seems to have a guilty conscience.

Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien, qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égal

Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
C'est payé, balayé, oublié
Je me fous du passé

Avec mes souvenirs
J'ai allumé le feu
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux
Balayer les amours
Avec leurs trémolos
Balayer pour toujours
Je repars à zéro

Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien, qu'on m'a fait
Ni le mal, tout ça m'est bien égal

Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Car ma vie, car mes joies
Aujourd'hui, ça commence avec toi

that fits better to approach this with humour. Either "Old man yelling at clouds" or "Sir, this is a Wendy's."

The Donor Class , too ...This is his way of telling the elites to "stuff it" ….. He doesn't want their money - and he obviously doesn't need their money …. The snobs who don't give a damn about the working class despise the only candidate who has devoted his life to fighting for the working class …

Is the donor class allowed to give more than the 2800 individual donation the rest of us are allowed. Is there something I am misunderstanding? There is a cap.

I have had too many arguments on DU of all places, that Billionaires don't use money for access.

That's his schtick.

Sid

Started, I'm guessing, when he was born.

I'm just wondering if there was any rational reason for him to make these statements the last couple of days, as if he was responding to criticism, when there's been no news about such criticism.

But his being non-apologetic—that alone—seemed to set you off enough to make this thread, so I can imagine why he's acting defiant.

for his issuing those non-apologies, and because of that, they were bizarre.

I couldn't care less if Sanders is non-apologetic, but if he announces non-apologies for no reason, we could be in for a very long, strange list of all the things he's non-apologetic for.

I have to admit it seems like an original way to campaign. Probably not a good one, but original.

a presidential candidate, one of ours, tweets that he refuses to apologize about things no one has
criticized hm for. Maybe he just wanted to draw attention to his immigrant family and working class roots, but he chose to do so without any context in which to do so and either believes detractors are criticizing his background, when they are not, or feels it serves him to act as if.

In either case, weird is the word for this latest.

Democratic Party cannot talk to where to came from."

"I'm 78. I plead guilty. .... unlike all the kids I'm running against, you can check my record going back a long way. You can find out that when I was mayor of Burlington, I was on the picket line with workers around my state. You find out that I was talking about gay rights before it was fashionable. That I was fighting for Medicare for All before most people even knew what that concept was. The advantage of having a long track record is that I am too old to change. I have stood up and fought for working families my entire life. I am the son of the working class, that's where I come from, that is who I am. I know where I come from. I apologize to nobody for my working class roots. I apologize to nobody that I am the son of an immigrant. And I apologize to nobody that as president our administration will take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite."

Knock yourself out attacking those windmills that you think are giants! Democrats are not giant Republicans.

Nobody has asked for his apology.

I thought working-class roots were an almost essential selling point for any political candidate in any party - the "man of the people" and all that. No politician ever apologizes for working-class roots; they often claim to have them even when they don't. Hell, even Republicans tout their alleged connections to the working class. Claiming you aren't going to apologize for it is sort of the next level of a humblebrag.

I am not aware of anyone who has asked sanders to apologize sanders should apologize for many things but everyone knows that it is a waste of time asking sanders for an apology

Class struggle as a political movement (Our Revolution etc.) is something I think he picked up years ago when he stayed at the Sha'ar HaAmakim Kibbutz in Israel:

Sha'ar HaAmakim is a kibbutz in northern Israel associated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement founded in 1935.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashomer_Hatzair


The kibbutz was associated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement:

Hashomer Hatzair is a Socialist-Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine (see Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashomer_Hatzair_Workers_Party


And the movement had a political party called Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine which put an emphasis on class struggle:

In contrast with Mapai, the main Labour Zionist party in Palestine at the time, the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party put heavier emphasis on class struggle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashomer_Hatzair_Workers_Party


Class struggle. Drilled into him early on at the Stalinist kibbutz. And he's still going on about it. Oy!

IF you all are seriously confused about what Sanders is talking bout, what he is responding too, it's in the first paragraph

Let me help you

It allows him an excuse to advertise both a righteousness (real or imagined) and his oppression by 'the establishment' (again, real or imagined) in one, quick bumper sticker.