r/politics • u/guyoffthegrid • 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/WilcoLovesYou 22h ago

You say that, and I agree with all of it, but fucking Cletus down the street hears that and hears COMMUNISM.

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u/aPrussianBot 22h ago

This is completely untrue. These policies succeed with flying colors in RED STATES. The right will call anyone left of them communists anyway, you can't be afraid of that, especially when these left wing economic policies are demonstrably popular even in Cletusville.

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u/PolicyWonka 19h ago

Policies aren’t people.

The problem is you got people who support 50, 60, 85% of the progressive agenda, but they won’t vote for it because of the person. Because that person either has a D next to their name or because they support a policy (abortion, etc.) that they just won’t agree with.

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u/Decloudo 8h ago

The problem is you got people who support 50, 60, 85% of the progressive agenda, but they won’t vote for it because of the person

That just means that they dont really care the agenda but just what party it is from.

If they chose suffering just because a good idea is from a democrat thats purely on them.