‘Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique
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Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison

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.”

  • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
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    19 days ago

    These dumbasses that point at $25k housing assistance and the small business thing as "social policies" are so fucking out of touch.

    Tax credits arent a great way to administer social problems, although the child tax credit is somewhat good and should be expanded in the absence of other social programs.

    But a tax credit for buying a house is useless. It would have driven up housing prices, with most benefit to developers and realtors, marginal benefit for people that will buy a house and get the credit (im in this category btw, as a likely first rime home buyer in the next 4 years). And it will hurt the working class who are overwhelmingly renters and would be hurt by the rising housing prices. Not to mention the likelihood of being blocked by courts the same way bidens loan forgiveness was (which i wouldve benefitted from to the tune of $20k as I received a Pell grant).

    And the small business thing is like....so obviously dumb. Just a small scale trickle down idea i guess? It wouldnt really help anyone except marginal help to people who wanted to start a business and maybe creation of some new low wage jobs.