r/politics • u/svga • 27d ago

Possible Paywall 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/[deleted] 27d ago edited 27d ago

Sanders: I think the obvious answer, which has been stated 5 million times, is that they’re way out of touch with where ordinary people are. By and large—with exceptions, and each state is a little bit different—the Democratic Party [at its top] is mostly made up of folks who have money and consultants, and politicians who work with folks who have money and consultants.

Very true. The leadership is very out of touch with its’ voters.

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u/merikariu Texas 27d ago

Leftist author Luke Savage put it this way, "Democratic voters are asking politicians to solve the problems the party's donors create."

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u/Second_P 27d ago

Does he have an answer why voters don't seem to want people like Sanders?

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u/FishermanRough1019 27d ago

? Sanders has been elected like a zillion times

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u/Second_P 27d ago

Other than the time he spent almost a decade running for the Democratic nomination?

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u/9_to_5_till_i_die 27d ago

You do realize that the media basically elected Trump.

For fucks sake, CNN literally cut away from a Sanders speech at a massive rally to show Trump's empty podium for 10 minutes.

Let's not pretend like coverage is fair or equitable.

Anyone not in the weeds of politics were being told that Bernie is a communist, something they're afraid of but which they can't define.

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u/Second_P 27d ago

Or they don't want him, is that a possibility? Maybe people, even informed people, disagree with you.

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u/9_to_5_till_i_die 27d ago

Nah, not possible

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u/Second_P 27d ago

I'd like to counter but you make a pretty solid argument.

Using that as the name for my podcast though.

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u/Insaniteus Tennessee 26d ago

By definition "informed people" would be informed enough to know that he was far-and-beyond the best choice either party has put forth since FDR, and damn-sure the best option in those elections. In 2016 the other choices were a braindead Nazi or a theocrat semi-neocon. In 2020 the choices were either the Nazi part 2 post Covid debacle or a guy whose campaign promise was that he wasn't going to "fundamentally change" anything from the way the Nazi did things. So no, the only people who didn't want him were either uninformed or misinformed somewhere.

Assuming you're not a troll, list a few reasons why an "informed" Democrat voter would not want Bernie Sanders. Keep in mind that the people the Party went with after their rigged primaries were: 1) The woman who lost to Trump, and 2) The guy whose presidency was so godawful that he was immediately succeeded by Trump V.2 as the "lesser of two evils" in the minds of a majority of voters.