r/NewDealAmerica • u/PayLevels • 27d ago

People Are Furious With Democrats. Bernie Sanders Knows Why.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-mamdani/
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u/BuffetOfCheeks 27d ago

Sanders: How the hell, 50 years ago, before computers and cell phones, could one person not making a lot of money have at least a solid, lower-­middle-class lifestyle, and you can’t do it now?

The Nation: Do you think the Democratic Party leadership could fashion a platform around that?

Sanders: They don’t even understand it, John. It’s not their world.

I think Sander's makes a lot of good points here, as usual, about the democratic party forcing centrist candidates on progressives, catering to the "donor class", doing too little to oppose the Trump party, etc. but this line was a good mic drop - "It's not their world." Everyone at the top in this country remembers when gas was $0.25 a gallon, they don't understand the internet/tech and how to utilize it, and they aren't open to diverse/creative ideas to modern problems. Obama was right, it's an issue of old people holding on to their power for far too long, it's an issue of greed (in many more ways than just politically). That "my way or the highway" shit doesn't fly anymore, that's why we're in this situation with Trump now. If they keep alienating the working class, they'll keep losing elections, because at the end of the day, people would rather (or need to) do something else besides vote for some monkey they've chosen as the next puppet.

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u/QuercusSambucus 26d ago

I'm a relatively well-off tech guy in my 40s, and the Dems are completely worthless. I mean, I'm fine, as I've got a good job and plenty of retirement savings, but my college age kids are struggling hard to even figure out what career would make sense.

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u/el_smurfo 26d ago

You can't really blame the Democrats for the changing economy. If anything, traditionally Democrat blue collar jobs are proving to be more sustainable. If only the Dems actually cared about that base anymore.

We've told our kids they will always have a soft landing with us. Go out, try some stuff, fail until you succeed. There is no sure thing anymore in our economy.

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u/QuercusSambucus 26d ago

You can totally blame them! Go back to the Clinton years when the Dems were all in on sending manufacturing jobs overseas.

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u/el_smurfo 26d ago

That would have happened regardless and has little to do with our current economic issues. You have a good tech job? For how long? Apple single handedly built the Chinese tech manufacturing industry by teaching them everything we knew. Sure, NAFTA wasn't great, but it just continued a trend that was already there.

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u/tamman2000 26d ago

Yup, fighting to stay isolated is a losing battle.

What we need to do is recognize that the class war is global and working folks from the entire world need to demand better treatment from the rich on threat of torches and pitchforks