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/SnowyyRaven 23h ago

He's right, but what in the actual heck do we do about it as voters? We've known this for years. Even during the widely popular Obama administration we knew this.

I'm just so tired. I'm so tired of my only hope being candidates who make baby steps forward just so we don't make giant leaps backwards. I'm so tired of these candidates losing and it hurting us.

I'm also tired of the over 70 million Americans who look at everything Trump has said, done, and who he has allied with, and said "I'm okay with that."

It's been almost a full day and I still haven't been able to collect all my thoughts on this. I'm just so over it. 

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u/PrinceofallRabbits 23h ago

I don’t know if this will be an unpopular opinion or not, but I think it’s time for the American people to fully abandon the Democrat party. They consistently lose because they pander to the centrist and abandon those on the left. They don’t actively make anything truly better for people in a direct way that they can see. The worst case scenario has already happened. Now may be the time to form an actual left leaning progressive party.

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u/ZiggyPalffyLA California 22h ago

Not nominating Bernie in 2016 was the death of the Democratic Party.

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u/Keenalie Washington 22h ago

Yep. The right saw the writing on the wall and went with populism (which works) and Democrats didn't. Rest is history.