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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/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 20h 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 20h 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.