“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said.

“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” Sanders asked.

“Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.”

  • @lennybird
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    To be fair, they should’ve voted Dem, but instead sat out against their own best interest.

    The electorate is incredibly fucking stupid.

    The strategy made sense to anyone with half a brain. It seems I overestimated the median American, though.

    • @DontRedditMyLemmy
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      You’re right. Lot of people sat out because of inflation, which was driven by corporate greed, which of course a Republican is not going to address. The electorate needs a fucking education. Prices have stopped climbing aggressively. They’re not going to go back down. Wage growth is the next step, which is another thing a Republican will not address. Americans cutting off their nose to spite their face.

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        Dems had 3 years and change to address insane profiteering and price gouging that started with COVID “supply chain issues” which was wrapped under the guise of inflation and record profits. Where’s that bill again?

        Kamala made 1 mention of a plan to scrutinize this issue and then backed down because of some potential backlash.

        There’s education and there’s gaslighting. Your point is the latter.

        • @lennybird
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          Remind me again when Biden had a supermajority in Congress?

          Edit: That’s what I thought.

          • @generalpotato
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            Just didn’t get to responding to this ignorant take.

            Dems’ job is go out and get votes by appealing to their voters. The fact that Dems haven’t had a super majority in the decades past as our protections, economy and civil liberties are under attack means that they are absolutely terrible at their jobs and you just made my point for me.

            You clearly didn’t think anything through. :-)

            • @lennybird
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              Haha it took you this long to come up with this shit take?

              Better give yourself a month next time.

              • @generalpotato
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                Nah, I actually have a life.

                You can clearly use one. Maybe leave mommy’s basement once in a while? ;-)

          • @[email protected]
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            Then their job was to be sure we all knew they were not ignoring it even if there was little they could do.

            • @[email protected]
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              Their job was to demonstrate that they knew what was happening, had a plan to address it, and their plan was being blocked by politicians who had none of that. They didn’t even try and i don’t think they ever really wanted to. Same with Obama bailing out the banks and leaving the regular people with the bill during the financial crash of 2008. (That was in no small part Bush’s fault, but he didn’t even try something different.)