ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ DETAILS SEXISM, RACISM DURING FIRST DAYS ON CAPITOL HILL: ‘I WAS SENT TO SPOUSE EVENT'
Why do they hate her so much?
Noah Adams
Juan Fisher
Look, I like AOC for her policies, but she and the Justice Dems need to cut this shit out regarding idpol / PC nonsense.
It's not necessarily a slight against your gender and color if someone mistakes who you are. It's not a major statement of oppression . It's just someone making a mistake innocently, much of the time. Let's face it someone in their 20s or 30s around Congress is more likely to be a staffer or spouse etc.. especially when it isn't like she is even seated in Congress yet so nobody will know her as a rep on sight.
If she and the rest of us leftist want real policy changes we can't play annoying idpol games or clutch pearls seeing racism sexism etc behind every action.
Jose Perry
Unahhhhh
Logan Perez
Honestly if she is coming out of stuff like this, she may not be coopted afterall: if the dems are going full exclusion like this she won't be enamoured to following the line. Still, the democrats are a party that at its fundamentality cannot be coopted or turned into a mass movement leftwing party, this needs to be understood by American leftists.
Nicholas Jones
Justice Dems are explicitly anti-idpol. They base their policies on Pauline universalism.
Christopher Brown
This doesn't help. There are few roads to real left policies without them for now thanks to a 2 party system entrenched. There have been tons of good left policies from the Greens and whatnot but they can't hit critical mass yet. The system is designed to prevent this.
Either we take over the D party and make progress with real left issues including rolling back citizens united, changing to a runoff or ranked choice system, put an end to gerrymandering etc… Or we spend years trying to get a critical mass of 3rd parties that are handicapped from the start.
Like it or not we need to capitalize on Dems ideological rightness and replace corporate Dems with leftists. Go look at Justice Democrats policies and this is covered there. In the US out parties change from the inside it happened before and can happen again.
Hunter Cook
Moron. Saying stupid shit like this will soon be her reputation. She should be more careful about her personal brand.
Aiden Walker
In theory, but look at AOC quote here. Look at the Justice Dems page and policies. They specifically mentioned something like "people who look like / are representative of the districts they are from". Most of those they support are heavy on idpol accusations of racism and sexism outside of general policies. Hell there is only one white guy supported last I checked! They seem to invoke whiteness and maleness as the enemy and feel that replacing them is the way forward.
They have some good policies on paper but there seems to be something of a dog whistle for a certain kind of person, which is a shame because the rest of their policies are sound.
Landon Butler
The truth is that neither is a viable strategy for socialists. The American electoral system is built from the ground up to hamper any radical change, and the Democrats can hardly even be considered a party. It is a clique of politicians, with no popular membership or base, selling a political 'image' to the voters. It cannot be reformed. Ultimately, any socialist attempt to play the electoral game on a federal level is doomed to fail. You are either coopted, frozen out, or forced to be a third party. You would have a much easier time working on a local level and building a base from there (and that is historically what the most successful third parties did).
Jeremiah King
This is another complimentary road, but that resistance is why I think it's better to travel it by changing the party itself by doing what you said. In modern history there is rarely a chance of 3rd parties succeeding because of the roadblocks in the way. However, look at the party nature of the big two.
At one point R were the liberal party of abolition and D we're conservative dixiecrat slaveholder and segregation types. Later look at how FDR and Wallace made the Dems implement strong left policies and it continues to be the left party through Carter until McGovern's loss, before going back right under Clinton and the Third Way bullshit. This on turn to deal with the less shitty Eisenhower Republicans become the hugely shitty neocon Nixon and Regan Republicans! Most recently the tea party movement funded and coopted by the Kochsuckers pulled the R even farther right!
We can remold the Democrats and begin to pull this country into a modern future by turning left.