United States Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders released a statement today addressing the 2024 Presidential Election and the Democratic Party's role in the loss of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump. He posted on his social media:
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.
In the statement, he calls out the Democratic Party for abandoning white, Latino, and Black working class voters; for not addressing income and wealth inequality, lower wages and standards of living, and the lack of access to healthcare and human rights; for funding Netanyahu's "all out war" against Palestine; and for pandering to the "big money interests and well-paid consultants" that control the Democratic Party.
Here's the entire statement:
NEWS: Sanders Statement on the Results of the 2024 Presidential Election
November 6, 2024
Burlington, Vt. – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election:
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends, the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.
Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real-inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.
Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.
Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.
Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government's all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.
Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.
In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.
Stay tuned.
It might be rough for some to hear, but it needed to be said — and it needs to be acted upon! Thanks, Senator Sanders!
