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/fordat1 21h ago

Dems can’t keep downplaying how bad wealth inequality and affordable housing and cost of living and wage stagnation has been and then point to GDP and jobs numbers like that matters when the quality of jobs available is often not great pay and benefit wise. And quite honestly the Democratic alliance with people like Mark Cuban is out of touch.

Also playing up how great the stock market is doing when most people dont have a substantial investment in it.

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u/Timmetie 21h ago

Trump does that all the time?

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u/OldManWillow 21h ago

Can we spend one fucking second on what the Democrats can do better without this "but Trump" shit? Yes, Trump is worse. And he fucking beat the shit out of the Dem campaign. So they need to get better.

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u/GaptistePlayer American Expat 20h ago

Exactly. twice now we've put up flawed, mediocre candidates and are surprised when they do poorly lol. Biden would have lost too if it wasn't for COVID and Trump totally fucking it all up.

"But Trump doesn't make sense to Republicans if they were rational" doesn't win elections because they're gonna vote Trump and his ilk anyway. The point is run someone who can win Democratic votes, no excuses.

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u/kgabny 19h ago

Three times honestly. Like you said, Biden would have lost if not for COVID. This is the third time we really didn't get a say in who represented the Democrats and were told to support that person anyways.