While Trump is mostly just draining the swamp of his own appointees, AOC has been giving her supporters an inside view of the actual pro-corporate DC swamp where the ooze of politicians becomes indistinguishable from the slime of industry lobbyists and neoliberal orthodoxy: https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-harvard-house-orientation-lobbyists-2018-12
Isn’t she borderline communism / socialist? I think she’s a great communications person, but when it comes down to the problem solving in the USA without ruining everyone probably not.
A fairly moderate, but promisingly outspoken, democratic-socialist.
A democratic socialist cannot be moderate
Dude I️ consider myself to be a democrat, but I️ will never be in support of her. She’s too inexperienced. She has all these grand ideas but has very little knowledge on how to execute them
This
How does one gain experience if not through experience?
Yeah, because capitalism definitely didn’t bail itself out of deep recession with “other people’s money”?
^ this
She could be president one day. She is not the establishment. Maybe even 2020 depending on how large the wave is.
Age requirements
Yeah. She won’t be old enough in 2020 🤣
Can we agree that there isn’t a perfect system, and we will spend eternity balancing the scale ? That’s the sad thing about politics and life
Sure, there’s no perfect system. But how about one that doesn’t keep most people precariously scraping by in return for making billions for Amazon or Walmart? Maybe one that isn’t based on competitive short-sighted planning by a handful of powerful private entities motivated only by their own continued growth even if it means destroying the climate of the planet?
I got it, just kill everyone. If we no one lives, no one suffers, if no exists the planet no climate problems
If AOC comes out as a nationalist, I will vote for her.
Hard to be nationalist when you are a minority
What's the problem with that? Nation is not a race or ethnicity.
She is truly AMAZING ❤️ Incredibly smart, passionate, savvy woman ! l wholeheartedly believe that she is the future ! 🌎✨✨✨
Go AOC! I love this politician’s soul and energy for the people.
Wow the lack of understanding here of communism, socialism, and social democracy is truly stunning. No, socialism is not the same as providing more social services, bigger government, or higher taxes. If you think that... then go pick up a book.
I mean... it’s not as though these movements were repressed in the US and their histories erased from general public knowledge. It sucks to have to deal with wildly inaccurate conceptions, stereotypes or just lack of knowledge, but it’s basically up to leftists to have to re-explain and re-introduce these concepts. Leaving it to explanations from the mainstream is how we got to a point where people think the post office or some dictator are examples of socialism.
One of my co-workers was trying to tell me recently that socialism is not so great in Nordic countries, so I posed the question "what do you think socialism entails?" Their answer was that it was high taxes and social welfare programs. I said "well, in traditional Marxist-Leninist thought it is when the workers own and control the means of production." He instantly replied, "that's not socialism! That's democracy!" 🤦🏽♂️
I still can’t bring myself to support a DNC-focused strategy for the left, but her social media notes about what it’s like being a new congressperson are pretty amazing and good 🍿