Prayer for the Working Class

A poem by Senator Bernie Sanders.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with attendees at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. August 20, 2019. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

Sen. Bernie Sanders is (again) advocating for a “working-class families” agenda. Will anyone in Washington listen?

Before the Democratic Party unexpectedly triumphed in November (sort of), plenty of high-profile progressives — including Bernie Sanders — were urging, in public, for a return to the liberal principles of old.

Namely, Sen. Sanders and his ilk were urgently extolling Democratic Party leaders to embrace a working-class platform.

“Democrats shouldn’t focus only on abortion in the midterms: That's a mistake,” Sen. Bernie Sanders warned in an op-ed published by The Guardian on October 10, 2022. “America has long faced structural economic crises. Democrats must win on the economy and present a pro-worker agenda.”

“In my view, while the abortion issue must remain on the front burner, it would be political malpractice for Democrats to ignore the state of the economy and allow Republican lies and distortions to go unanswered,” Sanders wrote.

“We have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in the modern history of this country, with three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of our nation,” Sanders pointed out.