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Brent Abrahamson's avatar

Bernie Sanders was right. Corporate Democrats and Republicans are not that different. Senator Sanders is a populist. Donald Trump ran as a populist. Bernie’s for real. Trump’s populism is a lie. Bernie Sanders was vilified by the corporate Democrats and openly attacked by MSNBC’ s Chuck Todd and Chris Matthew’s. Leaked documents from the DNC showed their plans to interfere negatively in Sanders’ campaign.

I have written and believe that the time is right to establish a new political party. If people were offered Bernie as a choice instead of Hillary Clinton he could have won. There are a number of young Democrats and independents who would love to get things accomplished. And that includes this gentleman from Missouri. Bernie is too old obviously to ever run for President again, but he would be invaluable in helping a new party to get going. We need you.

https://brentabrahamson1.substack.com/p/bernies-right?r=3tcdr4

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Aaron Parks's avatar

Sorry, I don’t buy it. The problem is not “my groceries got more expensive under a democratic president”; the problem is our educational system has been broken so badly, our nation’s citizens don’t know how to think. The problem is, millions of people aren’t smart or educated enough to know the president isn’t directly responsible for the price of durable goods or energy. You can argue, successfully, I think that Biden made mistakes and that he should have done more. But trump voters are NOT smart enough to understand that corporate greed and lower taxes on the wealthy spell disaster for the working class.

The right wing 1% bought up all of the major media in the country. The major networks (ABC/NBC/CBS) are all now flinging conservative misinformation as gospel. It’s like every news station is FOX. And the millions who listened and bought into the republican misinformation machine are mentally incapable of discerning lies when they hear them. They openly soak up the anti- immigrant hate and blame, in part, because it makes them feel better about their own failures.

Red states have horrible horrible metrics across the board. Republican administration results in lower happiness scores, higher mortality, more obesity, more use of the social safety net than they pay in, and lower rates of academic achievement. It’s been that way for decades. Decades. And yet red states keep voting in republicans. It’s not because democrats were in office briefly and things got worse; it’s that 50 years of mostly republican governance of their states has hurt their people. That’s something anyone can look up, and the refusal to believe this is a willful act based on the acceptance of republican propaganda.

Democrats are far, far from perfect. But the systemic problem is lack of education and intellect, and the acceptance of right wing misinformation as fact, not the failure of the democratic party to market itself correctly.

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