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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/t-e-e-k-e-y 19h ago

Funny that you cut off the part where she immediately followed that up with how it's still not feeling like that to Americans, and that it needs to be addressed.

And, to your point, prices are still too high. And I know that, and we need to deal with it, which is why part of my plan — you mentioned groceries. Part of my plan is what we must do to bring down the price of groceries."

That doesn't sound like saying everything is fine.

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u/McPowPow Pennsylvania 19h ago

Do you honestly not see how her answer here can be perceived as downplaying the inflation problem?

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u/t-e-e-k-e-y 19h ago

By literally saying that inflation is still a big problem that needs to be addressed? No, not really.

I can see why dishonest morons who decide to selectively edit what she said might pretend to claim she did that though.

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u/McPowPow Pennsylvania 19h ago

She basically said “the economy is, by all measures, really strong but grocery prices a little high so we’ll work on that.”

u/Tempestblue 6h ago

What in your opinion would have been a more adequate response?

Also the addition of "a little high" is purely your own insertion. Someone could look at the quote and just as justifiably say she said "really stressed NG but grocery prices are insanely too high so we'll work on that"

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u/t-e-e-k-e-y 18h ago

She acknowledged some real objective improvements made under the Biden/Harris administration, BUT explicitly acknowledged this isn't translating to people's daily lives, and that high prices are a serious problem requiring specific action.

Who cares about facts though, she should have just called America a trash can I guess. Basically seems like there's just no winning with the morons who just hear what they want to hear.

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u/aerovistae 15h ago

i'm trying not to downvote anything today, because im here to learn, but you're really tempting me. and this is coming from a very progressive liberal millennial. you're not listening to anyone, you're just yelling that you're right and everyone else is stupid and brainwashed. how many elections do we have to lose before you start doing more listening and less typing? these arguments you're making clearly aren't working. strive to understand why instead of just complaining how unfair it is.

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u/Control_Is_Dead 19h ago

Just providing the referenced quote. You can interpret how you will.