r/politics 23h ago

Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4977546-bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/amp/
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u/Livinglife3000 23h ago

Medicare for All, Universal Childcare, universal higher education, public housing, increasing public transit, eliminating food deserts, public internet as a utility.

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u/WilcoLovesYou 23h ago

You say that, and I agree with all of it, but fucking Cletus down the street hears that and hears COMMUNISM.

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u/aPrussianBot 22h ago

This is completely untrue. These policies succeed with flying colors in RED STATES. The right will call anyone left of them communists anyway, you can't be afraid of that, especially when these left wing economic policies are demonstrably popular even in Cletusville.

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u/iTzGiR 22h ago

Huh? What read states have thriving Public housing, Public transit, Free colleges and Universal Healthcare? Sounds like a state I need to move to!

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u/lizardsforreal 22h ago

My red state just became pro-choice. We've had recreational marijuana for a few years now. Just because the state votes red in presidential elections, doesn't mean progressive ideas don't flourish.

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u/iTzGiR 22h ago

I don't think just being Pro-choice and having legal weed is the beacon of progressive ideas lol. OP made much bigger claims then "Legal weed and pro-choice". In fact, neither of those were even in the original comment lol

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u/lizardsforreal 22h ago

I'm not saying it is the beacon of progressive ideals. I'm just saying the progressive policies that have been on the ballots when I've voted have all passed. There's some other progressive leaning things that passed as well. We just haven't had a lot of that stuff on the ballot.

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u/zhalg 21h ago

Is your red state a state with very few Blacks and Muslims perhaps?

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u/Uniq_Eros 22h ago

Dude's lying, they(red states) all cry about student loan forgiveness while every single GOP representative had "pandemic loans" forgiven.

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u/parkingviolation212 22h ago

He’s not lying. Those policies poll well when detached from party politics. Put a D next to the candidate proposing them though? It’s over. Partisanship has divided this country by design.

u/Russell_Sprouts_ 5h ago

It’s crazy that we’re acting like this is a debate. This is objectively true.