Two-time presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ripped the Democratic Party for being out of touch with working class voters as different factions of the left-wing coalition continue to point fingers at eachother following Trump’s historic comeback victory.
“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 wrote in a post-election X post. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
In an accompanying press release, Sanders noted that low income and middle class Americans had consistently expressed dissatisfaction with the state of the economy and the nation’s overall track. CNN’s Election Day exit polls found that more than 70 percent of Americans overall expressed a negative view of the nation’s economic state. The progressive leader further noted that out of control inflation has massively decreased the earning potential for the majority of Americans, though he was not saying any of this before the election and endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket.
“Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse,” Sanders continued.
“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing?” […]
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