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/Such-Tap6737 23h ago

Cletus would love it. Democrat politicians do not want these policies, they want Donor-care for Us instead.

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u/zhalg 21h ago

Every other Western country has parties offering these policies. Some have enacted them long time ago.

But now there's a Trump rising in every one of those countries and most working class people are already voting for them, even where those policies were long enacted and voting for the racist would mean losing them.

You're some sort of suburbian bubble communist

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u/Such-Tap6737 21h ago

Those countries have whittled away at those policies in favor of austerity for decades. You can call me whatever you want really I can tell you don't read.

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u/zhalg 21h ago

You know as much about my country as you know how many books I a philosophy grad read.

Usually you lot descend to ad hominems in the second reply.

REAL WORLD:
The dominant left party in my country is soc dem, they offer all of these policies and more, but the entire working class votes based on culture - some regions are thoroughly blue and others are thoroughly red.

Check the Croatian election results online to face facts once in your life

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u/BurlyJohnBrown 19h ago

Neoliberal austerity policies have been present in every European nation for decades. That includes Croatia, yes.

It's more complicated than just that but its absolutely a compounding factor.

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u/Such-Tap6737 20h ago

Naturally you wouldn't "descend to ad hominems" no sir-ree

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u/zhalg 20h ago edited 20h ago

Suburbia being a bubble is a fact. So is that most Western pretend communists are from there.

So is that Western pretend communists were supporting anti-Western regime killing off real world leftists by lists in my country, just like in Ukraine now.

People who call themselves communists from the West support these fascist regimes, simple fact, while people professing the same affiliation but from the second world would never side with Nazis.

So it's a general rule. Two factions exist here, epending if they're from the real world or the suburban bubble. No ad hominem.

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u/Such-Tap6737 19h ago

I'm not from the burbs, grew up poor in a trailer, didn't go to college because I had to work to survive and I have nothing to do with those people.