Bernie Sanders blasts Harris’ “disastrous campaign” for “abandoning” working class

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1. Bruh she talked about the economy 10x more than Hillary did wtf is this delusional take

2. Why does everyone say the Democrats abandon the working class? I want examples beyond that statement. Preferably with comparisons of how Republicans make any effort in the opposite. Border bullshit doesn’t count, look at Biden’s record with deportations. It basically matched Trumps.

   And Dems tried to pass a secure border bill but the Republicans blocked it

3. I wish we got Bernie in 2016. It feels like the biggest lost opportunity of my lifetime 

4. The losing Presidential candidate ran on lowering prescription prices, limiting price hikes, and tax breaks for small businesses and families. The winner was supported by Elon Musk. The down ballot races mirror a similar deal. Not to mention that red states consistently have a lower standard of living. 

   It’s copium to make this about not liking the working class enough. The big cities that consistently vote blue have more working class Americans than the middle of the country but we can’t possibly acknowledge what’s different between those working class Americans and the GOP voting “working class”.

5. This is a broader attack on the DNC approach to this campaign cycle and last two decades of policy and less of a focus on Harris’s short run. 

6. One side ran a billionaire who was funded by the richest person in the history of humanity and who said just about everything you could say that was anti-working class. I love Bernie but sorry my guy this just isn’t the problem.

   The real problem is that a majority of voting Americans actually *are* garbage people when it comes down to it.

7. The working class voters abandoned working class voters. Elon musk and trump are not their friends. But they want to sit at the cool kids table and hate on the other little guys.

8. That didn’t take long

9. While Bernie is right, all of his grievances are only exasperated by the Republican party. If anyone expects Trump and the Republican party to fix any of those things, I have some land in Florida to sell them. Republicans will repeal the ACA and we will go back to being denied care for pre-existing conditions or have to pay even more obscene prices for insurance. Republicans will cut back social security benefits if not get rid of it altogether – they’ve been itching to do it for years and now they control the House, Senate, and the Presidency. Those unions that Biden supported and marched with, they can kiss their existences goodbye. Yes the democratic party has abandoned the working class, but the Republican party actively shits on it and the American people don’t seem to care. We can blame the Democratic party for all its mistakes, but the fault here is with the American people, who are just content being uniformed, misinformed, and creating heroes out of con-men.

   “The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”

10. The “working man” has abandoned reality. I’m really fucking sick of this line.

11. Meanwhile the working class turning up their car radio: “TRAIN BY DAY JOE ROGAN PODCAST BY NIGHT…. ALL DAY”

    It’s the price of groceries, immigration, and the culture war.

12. She had a 90 page plan backed by economists for a working class economy. Trump had ramblings about Haitians eating pets. What fucking else was she supposed to have done?

13. This doesn’t help. We have to face the reality that a lot of Americans did want this. It’s awful but it’s true. Until we realize that, we aren’t going to make any progress

14. She did a decent job and no real mistakes under extremely difficult circumstances. Americans are done with having a republic and this was directly a vote to end the republic as they would rather elect a fascist criminal than a woman no matter her abilities. It wasnt even close. This vote effectively removes our status as a republic as Trump was running openly for dictatorship saying so even to friendly media and perhaps even we may see a move to hereditary imperial ambitions and certainly massive nepotism that Americans would absolutely support.

    Clearly the Dems had better ground game and funding. Trump phoned a ton of his stuff in. Dem voters failed to vote. Way more than would have made a difference. Dem voters suck. They earned the loss of their republic. Less than R but honestly earned it.

15. We can blast Democrats. But the fact that 70 million Americans think that Trump is the right voice for the nation, after showing what he is in his first term, is why I feel dejected today. We could be solving our debt, holding the rich accountable, and working to improve conditions for humans everywhere. Instead we will argue if women and browns are people. 

16. I really think what he means is just not running a populist campaign centered on the economy. While Harris did have good policies, it felt more muted and not center stage. Additionally, Harris’ campaign seemed too stuck between saying the economy is good but we need to do more. Inflation seems to be down but it feels like the American dream that was promised doesn’t exist.

17. Republicans are always ecstatic when their candidate wins. Democrats are mostly just relieved.

    Bring on Bernie, AOC or Ro, or Al Franken. Just once I want to be ecstatic that a truly liberal candidate won.

18. Was it disastrous? I felt like everyone was happy about Harris when Biden step down. I’m actually shocked she lost so bad

19. The other option was fucking Donald Trump. I don’t care if the candidate was a sack of cucumbers. Should have fucking voted. 

20. Harris’s policy proposals included raising the minimum wage, massive tax cuts for the middle class, increased protections for unions (the PRO Act and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act), huge childcare subsidies for lower income and middle class families, 25K in down payment assistance for first time home buyers, an increase in Pell grants, paid parental leave, a $2,000 annual cap on prescription costs for all Americans, cancellation of medical debt, extending Medicaid coverage for post-partum women, increasing the tax deduction for startup costs for small businesses, making price fixing by corporate landlords illegal, and building three million new affordable housing units in places that are experiencing extra high housing costs.

    This was a huge, ambitious, and fantastic economic plan for working people. Anyone who can look at this plan and say she didn’t care about the working class is crazy. And the campaign DID promote it. She talked about this stuff at every stop. It’s not her fault the press doesn’t cover it and instead runs stories like “Is Kamala’s laugh annoying? Let’s hear what far right MAGA bros think of it” instead of, I don’t know, talking about her plan to give every parent paid family leave and cap childcare costs at 7% of a family’s income. This was the most radical economic plan ever proposed by a party candidate, EVER.

    Saying she abandoned the working class is disingenuous. It reeks of bad faith. And it’s simply not true.

21. I don’t get it. The economic woes of the past 4 years are mostly from Trumps administration. Biden turned it around and based off global comparison, we’re looking better than the whole WORLD. Kamala had a plan to keep working on what was already miles better than 4 years ago. What blame do the Dems have to take, literally everyone one of there first terms sense the mid 90s has been bringing our economy out of collapse caused by GQP policies.

22. Worker unions and their members, like the teamsters, no longer endorse or support or vote for democrats. Trump is anti-union, so good luck to them getting pay raises, etc. And I will lol if they ever go on strike. They voted for him.

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