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In reply to the discussion: THANK YOU BERNIE SANDERS for speaking the blatant truth when so many won't [View all]betsuni
(25,532 posts)Bernie:
"And I think what Trump was able to do was pick up on the failures of the Democratic Party that did not talk about the fact that hard working decent people saw their jobs going to Mexico or China, or people cannot afford to send their kids to college or afford health care or afford housing that they desperately need."
"It wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost."
"It's not good enough to have a liberal elite. I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to where I come from."
"The business model, if you like, of the Democratic Party for the last fifteen years or so has been a failure."
"Over the last 30 or 40 years the Democratic Party has transformed itself from the party of the working class ... to a party of significantly controlled by a liberal elite which has moved very far away from the needs of ... working families in this country."
"The Democratic Party has been dominated by wealthy campaign contributors. They gotta open the doors to people who work with their hands, people who take showers at the end of the day, not the beginning."
What is the purpose of saying these things before the primaries when Democrats might have a chance to gain back at least a little power? I find it very odd, myself.