https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aoc-dsa-elected-victory/
She has used her skills to win concrete, historic political victories.
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AOC for President!
We desperately need more young people running for all offices, local and national. If you are a young person stuck in a dead-end job, run for an office somewhere. You don't need anyone to back you. Just sign up and learn about the process by doing it.
If you don't ever win, it's a fun and interesting life experience to share with others. You will make new, life-long friends along the way and you will be showing others that it's possible.
If you DO win, though, there is no limit to the benefit you can bring to humanity! The world needs you. Do it! I will vote for you.
Signed, An Old Person
Have you seen what she has been voting for and the changes she went through in less than 4 years?
She is closer to Nancy Pelosi than anyone the left should be going for, while also letting the Justice Dems. die out.
She endorsed Biden the same day Biden agrees to send Cluster bombs to Ukraine...
I don't think the people see her the same way as we did in the start of her career as a politician.
edit: fixed cluster bomb info
Nancy Pelosi, one of the most effective and successful politicians in congress?
That's high praise
We have different views, I was for the progressives, that was the only reason we wanted AOC.
Now she is just another blue dog democrat.
Now she is just another blue dog democrat.
That seems pretty hyperbolic. This is a description of that coalition. Perhaps you could share how her policy choices reflect that coalition's values.
Look at what she ran on and what she is doing now, she is moving more and more closer to the blue dogs.
I am just trying to point out the reality of politicians.
We have to stop seeing them as our saviors or people that can't be corrupted, they are politicians.
We need to force them to fight for the people, we can't treat them as just another celebrity.
Power is not given just because we like them and defend them, we need to keep pushing them so they stay in line to what they ran on.
Correct and of course you have fake progressives here down voting and defending her trying to smell her farts as she gives them more of the same neoliberal bullshit putting them closer to poverty as the years go by
Sad we keep falling for it, I just hope we keep learning from our mistakes.
Some learned after: Obama, Trump, Biden
Little by little we can keep learning and talking so we may fight the class war, the people vs. the wealthy.
I wonder how far away we are from AOC being able to run for President, and have a possibility of actually winning.
2028?
2032?
Only when majority of the Boomers have died off? Or will Gen-X turn all grump and conservative in their old age and become the new Boomers once they've inherited all their Boomer parent's wealth?
Full disclosure: I'm a Gen-X'er
I'd say she'd have a decent shot at 2028. It doesn't seem like there's a natural successor to Biden like Hillary was to Obama, so my prediction is that the primary is going to be wild
Ugh, please not Kamala. As CA AG she had some extremely scummy people in her orbit, one of which was known for making his secretary bend over so he could look at her ass. This dude was part of her entourage; she had to have known.
Among other things, yep. She wrote a book on this topic, but you can hear her talk about it when she was on her publicity tour. That'll tell you everything you need to know. And the thing is ... she knows better. Her entire family threw shade at her for it.
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She'd win.
Even in our backassward time and place, anyone who gives her a serious listen can sense that she's smart and right and righteous.
I feel like gen x is and always has been pretty apathetic, but the majority of us don’t have any great wealth to hoard like the boomers did/do. so, the likelihood of the bulk of us being highly conservative isn’t as high.
The propaganda and brain washing against self protection/functional government policies/unions/etc did do a good job with our generation though. There are still too many of us that will rail against any kind of help or protections or anything that would make life a little better/easier.
Idk. I could talk in circles with myself forever, apparently.
It depends on what party she runs as in my opinion. I could see her running in 2028 with the possibility of winning as a Democrat. I feel like America is a long way from electing a Progressive party member to the presidency though, and she is certainly a Progressive.
The Conservative/GOP party is a party in decline. They peaked probably 20 years ago and really only win national races now by gerrymandering and suppressing votes. There whole platform is really out of touch with the average American citizen and I don’t see them changing anytime soon from fear of losing their evangelical base. A base that is also in decline in America.
She needs to build enough of a base within the party to make it viable.
That means creating the bench of local and state officials that share her politics.
What, everyone should just do whatever AOC says and clap?
I'm not blaming AOC, just describing the politics of what is going on.
If she does run, I think it will be closer to how the Hillary Clinton election went.
The left has had enough of AOC/Bernie, just looking at the endorsment of Biden with no leverage given, while also voting for more miliatary spending.
The force the vote debacle that the REPUBLICANS ended up using for Kevin McCarthy...
Medicare for All failures and so on...
The Democrats would never allow her to win the primary, and she wouldn't win the election in her thirties even if they would. Old assholes running everything sucks, but I don't think the solution is to run thirty year olds.
The Democrats would never allow her to win the primary
and she wouldn't win the election in her thirties even if they would. Old assholes running everything sucksbut I don't think the solution is to run thirty year olds.
There. Took out your conjecture.