AOC must run for president. If she doesn’t, she is leaving significant gains on the table. Not gains for her; gains for the movement, for the working class, for progress, and for the world.
AOC must run for president. If she doesn’t, she is leaving significant gains on the table. Not gains for her; gains for the movement, for the working class, for progress, and for the world.
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I don’t think so. She’s decidedly fallen more in line with the mainstream Dems than I’d like. Whether that’s just a survival technique & she re-emerges as the person she started out as once she’s up on top is anybody’s guess.
See I don’t understand what you people mean by that? Is this because she stuck by Biden and Harris during the campaign trail??? That’s hoe you do successful politics. It’s easier to get your agenda through when the executive branch is controlled by your party.
Example. If Kamala won the 2024 election and had similar margins in congress as Trump does now. Progressives in the house like AOC would have enough votes to block all of her reconciliation (budget bills the US needs to fund itself), until she conditioned aid to Israel. Or Harris could fight with them on that GOR FOUR YEARS, and get nothing meaningful done.
Progressives in the house can’t do any of that right now, because the executive branch is controlled by Donald Trump.
You low-ball my understanding. I know all that, which is why I mentioned it possibly being merely a survival technique. However, she’s tried to play “both sides” a bit too often in recent years for my liking - on issues ranging from Amazon warehouse workers to Israel.
While she may still generally be on the people’s side, I fear she may have been convinced to be “more pragmatic,” which really means continued support of the status quo in fear of disrupting too many lives with significant change. Significant, rapid change is the only thing that will save this country, IMHO, or the oligarchs will just figure out how to corrupt things again.
AOC has never claimed to be a communist or freedom fighter. Socialist will still compromise to forward their agenda.
And I’m trying to stick to OC’s statement. AOC is the most left leaning person in these hypothetical primaries who is polling anywhere near Kamala and Newsom (who I believe will be the front runners). Unless someone else shows up better by late 2027. We need to put our support behind AOC if she decides to run. It’s the most left we can get. And honestly, the primary dosent need to be 5 DSAs all splitting the vote. Chose 1, and ride with them.