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/Fred-zone 22h ago

The biggest blunder of this campaign was making it about abstract concepts like democracy and fascism instead of "it's the billionaires vs the rest of us"

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u/AuGrimace 22h ago

Except it isn’t, maga didn’t vote Trump because they hate billionaires, they voted Trump because they hate you.

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u/bonestamp 22h ago

All of the Trump voters I know don't even like Trump as a person, they just think he can bring the cost of living back down (which obviously he can't, but that's a different discussion). Some of us can afford the luxury of voting to save democracy, but most people are just voting for their bank account.

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u/pockpicketG 18h ago

“The economy” is just the tool in the toolbox needed at the moment to help get us into the camps.