Thread by @LeftwardSwing

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica See Pete, you just DON'T get it.
"We're in the fight for lives because of Trump" is absolutely blind to the problems those of us who are poor & working class face. We've been in the fight for our lives for DECADES. And your ideology along with Republicans is why we have been /1

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica Not that you'll ever read this but someone will. Your policies don't go anywhere far enough to tackle the problems myself & millions of others face. We tried your way, it's not worked. And now you want public option healthcare? That leaves the insurance ibdustry intact. /2

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica Here's the reality Pete. As long as healthcare companies remain, people WILL die. Their sole purpose is to profit off the suffering of others. When people die, they get to "cash out". It's a profit driven industry. Why do you think so many are denied surgery they need? /3

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica This isn't "Oh people work for healthcare companies! They'll lose their jobs!" issue. It's a "people will frickin' die!" issue.

Do you even realize what's happening? Despite being insured, people are STILL having to ration their RX Pete! I mean seriously, c'mon! /4

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica And you're not being honest with people Pete. No normal every day person attends a fundraiser for someone running for POTUS where THE LOWEST COST TICKET is $2800!
How does that represent the 50% of Americans who don't even have $400 saved up for an emergency? /5

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica You literally don't get it. It's like you've been sheltered your whole life ir sonething. Do you honestly believe people will trust you when you're holding ritzy fundraisers in wine cavrs of all places? Do you not get how this looks to everyday people? Let me show you. 👇/6

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica You're very conservative on the issues. Your supporters can say what they want but when challenged side by side against Bernie ir Warren, you're basically W's "compassionate conservatism" with a (D) next to your name.
I & many others would love to have a convo with you. /7

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica We'll never get that chance & if the videos show us any indication with people who have confronted you & asked you REAL questions, you really don't gice a damn what we think ir say. And you wonder why you poll at 0% with African Americans? /8

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica Hopefully you'll open your eyes & ears to see what we're facing. This didn't just start under Trump. It's been going on for ages. You want to see how both (D) & (R) have failed us, the people, the people? Take a drive the Rip Grande Valley in Texas sonetime. /9

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica Because I honest to God doubt you've ever been in an area of the country which is largely poor. I also doubt you've ever been in a city larger than 200,000 people & taken the time to actually experience what poor urban areas are like. /10

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica Why do I say this? Because it shows. It shows in your attitude, your policies, your lack of knowledge. You have some talking points down BUT it's like basic Cliff Notes. I mean do you even know what a food desert is & how it impacts poor communities? /11

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica But you want to butter up to corporations & the 1%, the companies who create & make things like food deserts a thing.

THINK PETE.

What is the largest % of population which is impacted the most from student loan debt?
/12

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica I truly don't think you know the answer because if you did you'd have made the conclusion by now after all these months but nope, you haven't.

People like me & millions more feel invisible to you Pete. You COULD be so much better. You really could. /13

@PeteButtigieg @PeteForAmerica You could be the torch for a new generation like AOC is. But you aren't. And it's because you don't want to be. You value those who well off more than people like me.

We didn't ask for a class war.
We don't want a class war.
But people like you force class war. /14 end