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AOC's colleagues already floating a future leadership bid (www.axios.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I mean, what do people want AOC to do? Just roll over and give up?

Not giving up and continuing to fucking try is the way, as much as it sucks and feels like it's a neverending battle.

AOC is trying because she understands the horrors of civil war and revolution. No clear headed rational individual actually wants us to go down that path, because of the untold suffering it would cause.

Trying to keep the system from collapsing entirely is a good thing actually, no matter how much you hate that the Democrats often act as a shield for the Republicans, and no matter how shitty our original constitution actually is.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's what Democrats want.

I for one am glad that progressive in office aren't giving up and are committed to push forward despite the complete and utter continued failings of the Democratic party here.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The fact that she won't give up in the face of insurmountable odds tells me she's exactly the kind of representative we actually need in government.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not giving up, and even making a little bit of headway. It's impressive, given the open disdain from even members of her own party, how far she was able to get in this process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, she and the rest of the progressive caucus have done a great job of pushing and representing progressive ideas, as slow and painful as it has been. I hope she and the rest of them continue to push and fight and set and example for others because some progressives need to get their heads on straight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In reading your submission, it is exactly the opposite. No one wants her to give up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Right...those quotes are what you call "Fucking Lies", in my book.

Let's see about the actions of these crappy, corrupt dinosaurs, not their flowery lies and bullshit and if the past four years are any indication, I'm not expecting a lot of action.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I get downvoted for this on Lemmy, but if you want to make AOC the voice of the Democratic Party, exercise your first amendment rights and donate to her: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/alexandria-ocasio-cortez

You bet her billionaire opponents are also exercising their “free” speech with their money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

It's weird: every time the gutless dems ratfuck the left I feel the clarity leaving my body. Probably not my best trait.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Interesting. ASSUMING all these words in the article aren't hollow, many colleagues do support AOC. If it wasn't for ol' Nancy sticking her finger in the dike this may not have been too controversial.

Problem is this reads, and probably is, a buying time sort of deal. To the old geriatric leadership AOC is a threat to how they do things. More importantly, like with Bernie, she's a threat due to her supporters.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

She would have been a direct threat to them...

That's why instead they went with 74 year old with terminal cancer, he's recently violated insider trading laws, he won't go after Dems because they likely have dirt on him

Like how a new cop has to participate in stealing money/drugs before the old cops will trust them.

There has to be dirt both ways so you know they won't snitch.

AOC hasn't participated, so they won't let her into leadership roles, definitely not the Oversight committee

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

There are a few words in this article I hope are entirely hollow

[AOC] was pressed, for instance, on her support for primary challengers to fellow House Democrats during a Steering and Policy Committee meeting on Monday and promised to discontinue the practice.

This is the exact wrong thing to be doing and not something she can compromise on

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its becoming more and more clear that, at least working from within, that the project of the DNC is working against our interests.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We need more involvement to outnumber the old hags who can still be bought.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah thats not how that works. You are advocating for effectively the same strategy thats been in place since 2018. We've got the receipts (this article). It hasn't worked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

She got 84 votes. That's not a "forever doomed" insurgent. Primary (or let time handle) a few more of the old guard trying to shut her out and she could just win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not just the old ones. Pete Buttigieg comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What did he do?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

In four years at the department of Transportation? Not much, though the people of East Palestine have some complaints.

The real problem is that he is cut from the same cloth as the rest of the Democratic establishment. Lots of pretty but meaningless platitudes, zero accomplishments, and a myriad of connections to wealthy donors. He's just another empty clone like Harris.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have been incredibly impressed with AOC over even the last 3 or 4 years.

She used to be "generic Squad member" in that she mostly was focused on antagonizing establishment democrats and not actually accomplishing anything other than giving republicans a chance to regroup.

But basically since the war in Ukraine started it feels like someone gave her a stern talking to and she realized how to actually help people. She is still more than willing to tear into the shittiest parts of the Democrats but she also understands... we have a common enemy and need to focus on that. And when she DOES compromise, she is actually really good about explaining why and what her hard lines are.

She is basically what I wish sanders actually had been: A progressive (with leftist tendencies) voice that also understands how to make progress.

That said: She is still young for a politician. In five or six years (when she is in her 40s) I think we need her in leadership roles. That said... I also think she probably should be ready to flee the country come February because republicans hate her with the fury of a thousand suns.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

because republicans hate her with the fury of a thousand suns.

Smart, capable, self-made, brown-skinned woman. Oh, and she's very attractive. There's nothing that makes their hate wheels spin more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

She is basically what I wish sanders actually had been: A progressive (with leftist tendencies) voice that also understands how to make progress.

I mean has she made any kind of progress? Her track record isn't better than Bernie to my knowledge.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

People forget that sanders was literally a meme about how nobody watches c-span. He spent so much of his political career actively antagonizing Democrats (seriously, look up how he abused primaries to guarantee he won) that it completely undermined most of his attempts to get anything other than a pork amendment on bills.

It is hard to measure direct contributions by the nature of politics. But the fact that they have a comparable track record and AOC has only been in congress for six-ish years kind of says it all. There is plenty of argument that sanders paved the way for her and the rest of The Squad (I go back and forth on that) but... assuming she survives the next four to infinity years, she has a VERY bright political future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

she has a VERY bright political future.

She has a bright political future, but the question is how much that political future will do for the working class. The reality is that there's simply not much you can do with >10% of congress, and I doubt that AOC's approach (or any approach that focuses on working within the Democratic party) will cause enough change to turn Congress into a place that can pass progressive policy.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay....

Well, short of leading a revolution to replace congress, I am not sure what you are expecting there? But as a progressive politician with leftist tendencies who is not actively leading a coup, she seems to be doing pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Well I'm firmly in the "found/participate in a new party" camp, but that's not really my point. I'm trying to say that it's way too early to applaud AOC for achieving actual progress because she... Well, hasn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Bernie did exactly what the party would want a caucusing-independent to do. Run in the Democratic primary and win it so he wouldn't split the vote. Not doing that would have been actively antagonistic to the party. The (I) is mostly just aesthetics.