Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused establishment Democrats of treating her “like shit” as progressive activists urged her to run for president in 2028.
In a 100-minute long video posted on Instagram, the 37-year-old congresswoman from New York said that the party had a “remarkable opportunity” to pass left-wing policies after the midterm elections. She also accused the party’s leadership of starving funds from left-wing candidates during the campaign.
“There’s this huge conversation about candidates that were under invested in,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She cited Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who came within 240,000 votes of flipping Florida from red to blue, but ultimately lost to the Republican candidate Ashley Moody.
“If Angie Nixon had just had a little bit of that support, that outcome could have changed. But that money has to come from somewhere and it comes from these people,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the party’s Senate leadership.
Reflecting on the period after she was first elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez accused senior Democrats of being “horrifically cruel” to her. “I mean I was treated like shit,” she said. “Everybody took a swing at me.”
The Bronx congresswoman is seen as the likeliest progressive candidate to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
I’m not sure what you mean by the first line. My meaning is you don’t get to frame enabling Israel’s continued existence via funding for the Iron Dome as being about some sort of net-effect of protecting children when Israel’s mere existence guarantees the opposite, as demonstrated again and again throughout history.
Indeed, Bernie’s movement outgrew him, starting from the day he caved and endorsed Biden. And look what that got us: I was duped into voting for genocide, in the name of “lesser evil” politics. That paradigm is how we ended up in a world where the “lesser evil” is “maybe they’d do a little less genocide than the other guy.”
Harris promised the “most lethal fighting force in the history of the world” or whatever the quote was, and promised “no deviation” from Biden’s openly-genocidal policies. You can dream of a kinder genocidaire, I’ll dream of the end of genocide and empire.
Well I think the cart is being put before the horse; for we must deal with the present reality instead of far-fetched idealism: Israel exists, and that fact isn’t changing anytime soon. If we want to talk about net data: then providing defensive missiles so errant rockets don’t strike civilians isn’t necessarily a bad thing because ultimately a net-reduction of child deaths occur. The absence of funding for the Iron Dome further yields no evidence as to the damage wrought by Israel (e.g., Iranian and Hamas missiles have in no way shape or form deterred Israel from carrying out its offensive strikes of genocide).
It just leads to a net-increase in civilian deaths, overall.
When each child’s life is sacred, I can see why one would advocate to mitigate all. Either way, I suppose this is water under the bridge considering AOC’s position has since shifted anyway and she’s still better than any Republican – which is why every single true dissenter to the war caucuses with Democrats, at least while in elected office. A few Republicans protest, but mostly from the sidelines and having since been primaried out.
Not sure what you mean with respect to Sanders; for independent of the movement outgrowing Bernie, you do see why Bernie continues to caucus and endorse Democratic candidates under the same principle of “lesser evil” politics? Why the man himself does try to play the game of sitting out of elections or partaking accelerationism? Why Ilhan Omar does the same. Even Ilhan Omar endorsed Harris, rightfully so. So how can they be both sides of the same coin when one side is simply better than the other on practically every issue, including Gaza, USAID, and Ukrainian support?
Some of your quotes from Harris are anachronistic. She went further, called for Palestinian self-determination, ceasefire, and two-state solution. In order to deal with the greater evil of Trump, she had to toe the line on battleground swing states with considerable populations of Jewish supporters who at the time were still somewhat sympathetic to Israel (we all saw what happened to Cori Bush). She got scared, tried to play safe by listening to advisors. In spite of this she was still better (again, see Sanders and Omar’s endorsement).
Disagree with the starting premise. Rhodesia existed. Then it didn’t. Israel must meet the same end.
If it must, but not at the cost of children killed by unguided rockets and inaccurate missiles.