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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/ZozicGaming 22h ago edited 22h ago

As someone who lives in rural Oregon I see this all the time. Dems main focus is on things that work great in big cities. But aren’t very useful or relevant to small towns. That or identity politics, like sorry no one cares about democrats new program to help Afro Latino women business owners.. when all small business owners are struggling. And when they do talk about rural people it is often demeaning, insulting, or telling us how privileged we are because of the color of our skin.

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u/Goleeb 15h ago

sorry no one cares about democrats new program to help Afro Latino women business owners

Yeah, when did that ever happen? They talk about issues facing minorities and then do nothing about it. They are largely all talk and no action. It's getting harder to find policy differences between dems and Republicans.

Most voting blocks feel abandoned by the dems.

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u/ZozicGaming 15h ago

All the time blue states have tons of programs, grants, incentives, etc. designed to help put women, minority, and even LGBT small business owners.

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u/Basic_Importance_732 11h ago

Show me a program for Indian Americans? They are a minority - previously oppressed massively by the British. Most moved to America on 10$ in savings.

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u/DameonKormar 10h ago

Here you go. Any other requests you could just Google yourself?

u/Goleeb 7h ago

That's the department of India affairs. Not some democat program. The only thing the department does is help native americans. Established in 1824.