Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday accused the Democratic Party of largely ignoring the priorities of the working class and pointed to that as the biggest reason for why they lost control of the White House and Senate.
“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,” Sanders said in a statement about the results of Tuesday’s election.
“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said “those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.”.
“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 power?” »
