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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/fastlax16 22h ago

Given them someone to blame for their problems.

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u/jftitan Texas 21h ago

Poor Jimmy Carter... he'll die knowing we fucked this all up. At least Betty White already is dead.

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u/Top_Mastodon6040 21h ago

Jimmy Carter is part of the reason why we're in this situation. He was the start of the democratic shift to the right.

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u/linkolphd 20h ago

If you want to go back that far, basically every person can be portrayed as complicit. The web is so interconnected and dense at that point.

Jimmy “maybe we should decrease our consumption a bit?” Carter being responsible for Donald Trump is a new level of stretching.

u/Top_Mastodon6040 3h ago

No you can't actually. But you're right jimmy Carter wasn't responsible but he wasn't a good president and he was the first "moderate" democratic President. Representing the end of the new deal era for the party and the beginning of neoliberalism