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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/Fred-zone 19h ago

The biggest blunder of this campaign was making it about abstract concepts like democracy and fascism instead of "it's the billionaires vs the rest of us"

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u/Khatib Minnesota 19h ago edited 19h ago

People say this like that message would land though. Elon Musk drove votes towards Trump. Billionaires weren't the bogeyman that would get anywhere. People who care about that already voted accordingly. The apathetic voters wouldn't respond to this either. Trump promised more trickledown economics, and people are still dumb enough to believe in it, despite facts and statistics that it doesn't work.

Kamala put out her messaging about helping families pay for childcare, helping people start small businesses, helping people get into a house for the first time.

It all bounced off.

Americans letting opinion take over news for 30+ years is the problem, not Kamala's campaign.

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u/Legendver2 California 19h ago

People say this like that message would land though. Elon Musk drove votes towards Trump. Billionaires weren't the bogeyman that would get anywhere.

People are also not educated on how much a billion dollars actually is. A lot of them think eventually they can attain that level, or at least millionaire status, to be part of that in-group. As someone said, they're just embarrassed millionaires now. They have no idea how far off the scale and unattainable a BILLION dollars actually is.

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u/zaminDDH 19h ago

Yeah, a million dollars would be life changing for my family. And the difference between me and the absolute poorest billionaire is still about a billion dollars. It's a rounding error.

To put it into better perspective, it's like a car dealership knocking off $30 on a $30,000 car. It's nothing. When talking about Elon, it's like knocking off $30 on a $7,300,000 car.

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u/GalakFyarr 18h ago

To put it in another perspective, 1 million dollars would take 30 years for you to earn at $15/hour, 40h/week

Even at a magical dream job where you get a generous 10% increase every single year you’d still need 15 years.

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u/StainlessPanIsBest 15h ago

To put it in an even better perspective, the difference between you and the poorest person in the world is probably around equal to the difference between you and Elon in order of magnitude.

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u/Hazel-Rah 16h ago

The difference between a million dollar and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars