Bernie Sanders fights for working families: Sen. Don Riegle

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8. And Democrats take care of poor people

Is a refrain I still hear from elders in Texas. Just listen to Biden’s speeches to unions and you’ll get how this is true for working families.

Democrats are better at running the economy, too. If Bush v. Gore hadn’t gone down the way it did, maybe banking regulators under a Democratic administration would have reigned things in. Maybe under such, republicans would have placed more value on green energy, rather than insisting on digging around in the dirt for coal and a past that never existed. Then Obama wouldn’t have had to cleanup the recession created under dubya AND push for solar/Paris accords so late. If Texas wasn’t further gerrymandered to hell in 2012, then maybe the state would have expanded Medicaid, and my friend would have lived to his 34th birthday, and not died in the gap.

It’s simply more complex than one candidate’s proposed solutions that lump sliding middle class families like mine in with billionaire-elite-class-establishment speak. I see organized labor as a natural thing to occur in a free market system, and if you think Biden’s speeches to unions are for billionaire donors, then I don’t know what else I could say to dispel these cruddy notions of Democrats as being some sort of republicon-lite establishment party that doesn’t care about workers.