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Bernie Sanders blasts Democratic Party following Harris loss (www.politico.com)

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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.”

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 213 points 1 day ago

Twice too.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 140 points 1 day ago

Thrice you might say, considering we could have had a primary this time too but for Biden's hubris

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

He specifically said he wouldn't iirc.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

I must have missed that but I believe it.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-biden-endorsement-2024-d8f0772b117e2bf83e1062708ea651c0

On Tuesday, he said that he would not run and he discouraged any another high-profile progressive candidates from doing so either.

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