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Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.
“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”
Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.
He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”
I'm developing a nasty feeling that Democrat wonks are ideologically incapable of understanding that the price of bread has gone up 20% since '21.
But inflation has gone down! And the wage growth has never been higher. The economy is actually booming and you stupid plebs don't even know it!What is actually up with the wage talk? The numbers I see graph dorks post seem ludicrous
Wage growth is a wildly difficult thing to categorize and analyze as a result. The largest percentage points gained came from the working class wages getting several dollars an hour more, but typically from the 9 bucks an hour range into 12 or 13 an hour, because employers literally were unable to get people working in grocery stores. So big percent gain but I'm real dollars and when coupled with inflation of rent and food it basically meant they were and are still falling behind.
Of course you have the "middle class" as well which saw moderate wage gains as well, but most of these people are more likely to swap jobs for raises rather than beg for raises from a current employer. Those who didn't job hop were seeing 4% gains iirc? Which when you roll together with the 12% of working class increases, does indeed paint a picture of "wow lol at all these gains were seeing the economy is doing great!"
But again the "middle class" is probably more upper class than actually middle, which has basically shrunk to such a small piece of the pie that it's like the top 60-80% (so only 20% of the people) of families and so I don't think they're actually hurting at all, compared to the bottom 60% of working class folks who are balanced on a knife's edge and it literally doesn't matter to them who is in power, life sucks, it's hard and they are just trying to last as long as possible before a health care issue knocks them out.
That's my take on it, I get most of my numbers from what sam seder talks about on his show, but I have the complete opposite take from him. The economy is a shambling zombie that doesn't know it's dead and is just waiting to collapse.
Sometimes it's literally up as a cohort of app wage earners, but like 1% lol. And I bet most of that is just the top 10% of wage earners getting decent raises (maybe more broad but only union members)
Taken together, there's been a decrease as wage increases have not been close to inflation overall. Their big business lobbyists and friends and the business owner politician themselves really really don't want any wage growth, the dems as constituted right now will never work to meaningfully increase wages
Taken together, there's been a decrease as wage increases have not been close to inflation overall.
But they have increased, if they hadn't then people would be even worse off 
At this point I see only one way to change the minds of democratic party leadership
change the minds of democratic party leadership
Into pink mist?
The pessimism of the mind: We are so fucked
The optimism of the soul: Fuck it we ball
and even marched in a picket line
"We rolled Biden's husk out for a few minutes of photo opportunism...what more do you unworthy shits want from us?!"It is remarkable that he's the first president ever to do that, and it's literally the bare minimum of supporting the working class. That he's the first is more of an indictment of the US government than a sign of progress
Harrison is such a douche nozzle, and 100% wrong - so long as Dems refuse to do anything for the working class, they will continue to lose.
But of course, they don’t want to hear it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
They lost the popular vote for the first time in decades and they are dead set on learning absolutely nothing.
The DNC and the Democratic party needs to go the way of the whigs
for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.
...without any plan (or probably even intention) for getting those policies past even the conservative wing of her own party.
You can trip over your own feet a couple times and folks will forgive you, but when it becomes routine you risk crossing the trust thermocline.
What's crazy to me is how many libs will forget this feeling of betrayal and the steps the DNC took to get here. Just like '16, '20 and '24 there will be goldfish-eyed believers bloopin at leftists to vote for their new neoliberal x% Hitler in 4 years.
I wonder what republican fucker they'll have to fear monger against by then.
I honestly don't think Trump would try to change the laws in order to run for a third term. I feel like he mostly ran again out of spite and ego, but won't want to deal with the burden of the presidency a third time.
hey let's listen to what the guy who spent $130 million to lose to Lindsay Graham by double digits has to say
Let's pretend, for a moment, that everything he said is true about Bernie's critique. What is his explanation for the DNC loss, and a drop of 15 million votes? I looked at his Twitter after he posted this yesterday morning, and there's nothing except retweets.
Sander pulled on his leash, will he now back down or respond to this challenge and put down
I would be glad to have him back as an enemy of the DNC. For all his flaws and all the disappointment of his willingness to associate with Biden, he really does seem to hate the democratic party insiders and I have fun seeing it. If Hillary kills him I think we should regard him as a martyr.
Agreed. If Hillary has BernDog shot we all forget everything that happened since super tuesday in 20 and pretend that he was a cool old dude who gave his life for a better world, cut down in his prime but the Klinton Krime Klique.
hilarious that a mild critique like this is immediately vilified. These people are diseased.
Harrison probably thinks the solution is to simply beg for more money, lose, and then beg some more. If it worked for him in his state, it can work nation wide.
price of bread went up you say?
