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“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.”

        • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          82·
          2 months ago

          I’m not sure he would have ran again even if Biden stepped down in the most graceful way possible to be honest. The second time he ran I remember him saying a large part of why he did was because people kept telling him how much they felt the country needed him, while he himself was having doubts on his ability to fill the office in his age, or weighing the amount of stress it would bring, and even looking at his vote totals and wondering if the country even wanted him as president. He’s gotta be tired, and my take on Sanders these past 8 years is if Trump didn’t exist he’d have been a happily retired grandpa, and he’s just trying to do whatever he thinks has the best chance to stop Trump and American Fascism in general. This perspective seems to make a lot of things line up including this verbal thrashing of his. He does have access to communication with top democratic play-makers, who knows how long hes been telling them something like this.

    • lando55@lemmy.worldEnglish
      75·
      2 months ago

      Now is about the time of year I remember to say “Fuck Debbie Wasserman Shultz”

            • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
              23·
              2 months ago

              geez you weren’t kidding

              Several other Democrats who voted to censure Tlaib were among the top recipients of AIPAC funds in November, including Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz ($141,058) (link)

              and that was in January. If it’s any consolation, the evil is slowly draining her life away it seems.

              2016 : image 2023: image

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          2 months ago

          Genuinely feels like she cheated and won with zero consequences.

          Seems like that’s going around a lot these days.

    • bastion@feddit.nl
      14·
      2 months ago

      Yeah. The Democrats really screwed the pooch on that one. He’s a solid candidate, and has stood on his moral stance from before the Democrats recognized the issues that are now popular.

      Sorely needed, sorely missed.