“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.”

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 months ago

    If the problem was that democrats did not support the working class enough then why didn’t the union leader win?

    He had the albatross of a poor up-ballot candidate around his neck. Same reason most Democrats lost: The party didn’t get people to go out and vote because they didn’t appeal to workers, which hurt every candidate that wasn’t Republican.

    • UsernameHere@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      2 months ago

      Voters are literally saying it was because of inflation during Biden presidency.

      Democrats lost because they planned to tax the billionaire class so the billionaires funded the campaign against them.

      • Bookmeat@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        Except Democrats outspent Republicans by a large margin. This wasn’t an election lost from a lack of donations.

        • UsernameHere@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 months ago

          Donations are on the books. Things like Elon Musk buying votes are not on the books. The billionaire class did not want Harris to tax them.