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.
Because, despite 5 decades of progress in information availability and democratization of knowledge, working class people still have to be spoon fed every bit of news as they are emotionally incapable of learning anything other than what gets fed to them on the TV.
Are you working class?
Depends on your definition. I’m white collar, 40 hours a week, bottom 90% income.
Well in my opinion, it doesn’t really matter what words are used to call other people until whatever those words are are used with the purpose to separate one and qualify the other as superior. Hang on, I’m not about to tell you how to get to Sesame Street.
What you said is akin to tribalism, which isn’t bad or good but is a normal human reaction everyone feels. id like to focus on the way tribalism can be and is currently being used against us to turn off our brains.
I’ll start with the obvious bad actor here, FOX news. How do they paint us on the left? Lets see, we’re all godless, overeducated, wine sippin, holier-than thou, out of touch DINKS. Oh and we’re all gay space commies.
Now besides me who embodies every one of those, most lefties don’t, right? It’s done by FOX intentionally to divide us and create divisions instead of conversations between us folks working 40hrs a week.
We know FOX is doing it, but aren’t the sources we watch doing the same? Isn’t it likely, at least? The guy you had pop in your head when you said “working class”, what did he look like?
Rough, right? Mean, uneducated (a nice stand-in for dumb), emotionally stunted, misogynist, etc.
Now , whether or not that’s exactly what your lil trumpet looks like, why do you have a vision similar to mine?
What i mean is where did that image come from??
The news we watch, right? Where else would we? How else would we have the same basic picture in our heads? Could it be our news sources are painting this picture in our heads for us?
I believe most of the media we see is doing this trick. Most of the media, is owned by people who, if they were allowed to, would try and spread a point of view that benefits them. For us, they want you and me to blame the guys who are watching FOX, not the guys running FOX.
The thing that drives me the craziest about our species is we’re actually pretty smart when we want to be, but we’re also lazy and vain. Both FOX and MSNBC viewers are equals in vanity and laziness. Those failures are in my opinion what makes us so easy to manipulate, and what we must guard against most strongly because of that.
OK THIS WENT LONGER THAN I MEANT TO DO SO TLDR;
when you say
I respond that it’s more like we are all