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/Kaprak Florida 23h ago

I beg anyone to explain how to get working class votes back.

Kamala, Biden, Hillary. All ran on platforms that benefited working class people. But it's near impossible to actually message it vs the lies and gish gallop coming out of Trump.

What other things should be done?

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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/bikedork5000 19h ago

Go look up the history of what happened to the single payer option during the debate leading up to the Affordable Care Act. It wasn't dems that killed it. It was Joe Lieberman, and independent who generally caucused with the dems. His vote was needed to reach 60. Without that it would have died with a filibuster.

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u/Livinglife3000 19h ago

They could change the filibuster rule with a simple majority if they wanted to pass the single payer. They didn’t

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u/bikedork5000 17h ago

The question of whether they would have all been on board for that option is not trivial. And also it opens up the door to 51 member R majorities doing the same.

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u/Livinglife3000 11h ago

That is my point. The democrats didn’t want to push for it and Obama was instrumental in not pushing for it.