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Is she? Show me. Show me how she is working for and supporting the policies that DSA is working for.
You realize your opinions are just a long series of mistaken views that don't predict future states of the world right? Like, you have this hyperbolic reaction to things that you're views don't align with, but your views don't predict the future. We've covered this. You should consider that your political calculus is just bad and maybe you should open up your view.
You have fun doing your best to welcome fascism with open arms and assist corporate cronies into power. I forgot that your opposition to Biden wasn't because you didn't think he could win, it was because you'd oppose any Democrat actually on the ticket for being insufficiently pure.
You just can't help yourself can you? A year of having a wildly mistaken understanding of the political calculus around Joe Biden and what it takes for Democrats to win, putting out a view point and a particular rhetoric that was objectively helping Trump to victory; then the most minor of admonitions on your part that you were wildly in the wrong. But obviously zero introspection on your part as to why you were in the wrong. Have you considered why you were so wildly in the wrong as long as you were, to the point of basically costing the Democrats the ability to win any house of power in 2024?
We're talking about AOC and the DSA, and I'm making some specific points about how to wield political power and what it takes to stay "in" power when the "team" you are on would rather not have you. You, like some one who has no fucking clue what they are talking about, decide to make it personal and just go on the attack. Brother. You have the political calculus of a naked mole rat. Like, the beliefs you have around politics aren't useful for predicting what will happen.
You and many others here seem have attached your identity to a specific political team. And when that team gets criticized, you imagine yourself to be personally under attack. You (and many others here) can't separate your identities. Maybe its because you are older, and haven't spent the time to self-actualize and have that independent identity; maybe you are younger and haven't had the opportunity. Maybe you have no real experience in politics or campaigning or institution building. Maybe you've never read on or studied power, how it manifests, and how it is wielded to great or little effect. Regardless, you obviously have significant work to do to train your understanding of the world to the point where the beliefs and things you think predict future states of the world, which, in my personal belief system, is the entire point.
I put probably close to 3000 volunteer hours into squad/ squad adjacent campaigns. I've run political organizations, for years. I've worked directly with politicians as an outside organization. If you, as a political organization, can't withhold your endorsement/ power: you have none. And when you are charged with managing/ growing/ building a movement; building power is your entire job. If AOC isn't going to be on the right side of DSA, and they endorse her anyways, the DSA loses all power in the relationship and suffers (likely falls apart) as an organization.
The perfect example of talking a lot and saying nothing.