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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders statement on the election [View all]
Link to tweet
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.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And theyre right.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And theyre right.
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Can't be the real Bernie, while I'm not a big fan he would not say this now
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2024
#4
Sean O'Briend is a Trumper and always was...funny you mention this now...have a nice life.
Demsrule86
Nov 2024
#46
What gets me is we are not allowed to counter his bashing Dems on a site no bashing dems....
LizBeth
Nov 2024
#123
If one of us posted that as our comment, bet it would fail a jury, certainly today. He does make a point in that a year
Silent Type
Nov 2024
#14
Yeah, he let his real feelings slip out in 2016 when he referred to Planned Parenthood as "the Establishment".
LisaM
Nov 2024
#57
Sanders still thinks that he could have been Trump because of the crossover between MAGA and his Bernie Bros...
W_HAMILTON
Nov 2024
#27
Look, I'm not saying he's right and I also think Biden and Harris have been good for the working class
mountain grammy
Nov 2024
#54
Because of propaganda -- not because Democrats have """abandoned the working class."""
W_HAMILTON
Nov 2024
#103
Sanders said it and went after HRC, Sanders said it beginning and end going after Harris.
LizBeth
Nov 2024
#125
He should understand better than anyone what an obstructionist congress looks like. The Biden administration
chia
Nov 2024
#36
Good point. A lot of regular people are just disgusted with lack of action by government on a number of issues.
Silent Type
Nov 2024
#88
Think that's a big part of it. More people didn't go to college than did. Think they are wrong,
Silent Type
Nov 2024
#90
I'm seriously pissed off at Bernie Sanders. He was in a senior leadership position on the Democratic
Vinca
Nov 2024
#120
I can't stant to even read the title of this OP...it enrages me. So trashed.
Demsrule86
Nov 2024
#126
What an asshole. Lots of opinions about the Democratic Party for someone who has NEVER been a Democrat.
tritsofme
Nov 2024
#130
What a hypocrite: "Biden has been the strongest, most progressive president in my lifetime"
mathematic
Nov 2024
#140