United States | News & Politics

1919 readers

457 users here now

Welcome to [email protected], where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

303

Sanders: Harris Lost After Democrats “Abandoned Working Class People” (truthout.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

48 comments fedilink hide all child comments

“The American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” Sanders said.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm of the belief that even supporting the working class wouldn't have been enough to beat Trump.

The world isn't doing great right now, and there needs to be an unifying cause, an enemy to rally against and the right worldwide has done a good job to make sure it's nationalism with the enemy being a foreign element or non-local ethnic group (be it jews or immigrants or liberals that want to destroy the country, etc). Trump has leveraged that to great success, and Harris was trying to do that as well with some of her policies and campaign strategy.

If the opposition to the far-right ever wants to take back the lead, I feel like awakening the class consciousness once more is the correct play. Not a socialist movement (though that would probably happen as a result), but just redirecting the anger towards those who are actually responsible for the general decrease in the standard of living and those who have so much influence and interests that directly oppose the classes that are struggling. Granted, this would take a left-wing Trump who US might never get as long as politics are being controlled by big money and corporate interests.