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- usa@lemmy.ml
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.”
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
It’s less than the bare minimum because he’s the fucking President. He shouldn’t be doing a highly truncated version of what any average Joe has access to, he should be using his office!
One of my biggest resentments is that I’m just a completely average dude, commanding absolutely no institutional power or leverage, and I have done far more to further working class interests than Joe Biden or any of the other democratic party leaders.
Why would you expect the bourgeoisie to do more for the working class than the workers themselves?
I don’t, but that doesn’t make their working class hero stolen valor any less annoying.