Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demogogue
Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demogogue
Sanders warns Biden: address working-class anxieties or risk losing election to demagogue
In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win.
“We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”
The US senator from Vermont added that he was in contact with the White House pressing that point. “We hope to make clear to the president and his team that they are not going to win this election unless they come up with a progressive agenda that speaks to the needs of the working class of this country.”
Sanders’ warning comes at a critical time in American politics. On Monday, Republicans in Iowa will gather for caucuses that mark the official start of the 2024 presidential election.
Biden faces no serious challenger in the Democratic primaries. But concern is mounting over how he would fare against Trump given a likely rematch between them in November.
He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win.
No, The Guardian, you missed the whole fucking point.
The important thing Sanders said is that unless the president was more direct in recognizing the many crises faced by working-class families then our entire democracy would be destroyed.
This is an existential threat, not a goddamned motherfucking horse race, and I am sick and tired of the media supporting fascism by treating it like the latter!
Unless the Trump is held accountable, He will most likely win. People's material needs are important and Dem messaging has basically been hey we showed this graph so you're not struggling and anything popular you want won't happen. But everything bad will happen with the other guy. Being not Trump once again is a dangerous way to win the election. Trump's cultist ass should be getting crushed.
Rock on, Bernie
With an election coming up, the Schrodingers Leftist dilemma is in full force, even on Lemmy -
Where we're simultaneously both powerful enough to be personally behind every Republican win of the past 20 years, and also so insignificant that we must be ridiculed and bullied at every turn to remind us that we have NO PLACE in their party they blame us for not backing.
The best part is that most of the time people hit both sides of the coin in the same comment.
Sad to think that we coulda had Bernie as Prez.
Dems are just mid rights who don't care if you'd rather slave away and not afford healthcare or housing with a masculine pronoun instead of feminine (or vice versa)
if Trump wins the corps also win and the people lose
if Biden wins the corps also win and the people lose
did either of these two put up a fight for worker's rights and higher wages?
did either stand up for women's rights or bodily autonomy?
did either stand up and defend journalist being silenced?
did either do anything to quell the militarized police force?
did either help Captain Planet at all with restoring Mother Earth?
did either candidate do anything to protest against the size of the military budget?
what did either candidate do that directly makes the citizens better off?
where is the difference?
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Biden is the most pro-union president we've had in years and he's responsible for the resurgence of unions. Bernie and all the commenters here seem totally detached from reality.