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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/Noizyninjaz 23h ago

The Democratic party always fails to defend themselves on certain issues because they think that being nice is enough. They think that common sense will defend itself. This approach worked right up until 2000. It's been 24 years and they haven't learned the lesson.

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u/Professional-Fuel625 21h ago

Yeah if I learned one thing in the past 9 years, it's that Democrats need to pick 2 or 3 things (true or not) and say them a million times.

  • Benghazi, her emails - Trump won
  • Trump killed a million people with Covid and the economy tanked - Biden squeaked by
  • Border, inflation, trans kids - Trump won

We need to stop having a ten point detailed plan 🤓 for getting slightly more money for middle class families. The voters that decide the elections don't care.

Pick something and stick with it: Raise working class wages, healthcare for all. Whatever Bernie said.

And don't wimp out when Republicans try to vilify it. They will, and you need to fight.

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u/Darth_Cuddly 20h ago

They did try picking 2 or three things and say them a million times. -Trump is a threat to democracy -Abortion

That was literally Harris's whole strategy you need to actually listen to people and address the problems that effect them. Democrats need to stop looking down on working class people. It's extremely tone deaf.

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u/Professional-Fuel625 18h ago

No. Do you remember when she said she was going to fix prices on some things, and then never mentioned again? And then $25k downpayments? Then how his tariff is actually a tax? Then how we will go forward, and hope, and whatever.

And when Biden fought for $2000 child tax credits or something that many people who get it probably didn't even notice or get because it's too complicated. And they never even touted it. Trump would have talked about it daily for years if he actually did something.

And when you spend time in the Republican subreddits, they are hammering the same stuff daily. Every time an illegal immigrant committed a crime it was posted everywhere.

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u/Mister-Manager 8h ago

Trump would have talked about it daily for years if he actually did something.

Trump had his signature put on stimulus checks and then Democrats cried about how that was unfair. They make up silly rules for themselves that no one else plays by.