Question For My Blue Friends: Why All The Deference to Ocasio-Cortez?
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Great post. I especially like what you said in the bolded part. One of the reasons a freshman congresswoman has this much influence is due to the spotlight others put on her. I would add a few other reasons why she's influential-
1) She knows how to leverage social media to her advantage which gives her a HUGE platform. She can connect with more constituents in 30 seconds than her fellow politicians can on any interview of your news source of choice.
2) She is prepared. Look at the hearing last week. She was the only one that didnt grandstand, she asked her questions, and even didn't use all of her time. It was purposeful and concise.
3) She has worked her way up quickly, and millennials identify with her.
Now, I don't often agree with her as our worldviews are different (even through I am only 7-8 years older than her) , and probably wouldn't have voted for her. But, I do recognize what she is doing and she is doing it well. I think she is the direction the democratic party is heading with the millennial generation. There will be more politicians like her in the future and they'll soon outnumber the old guard.
I would also point out that if you ask a lot of Europeans about America's political parties they would say that America has a conservative/centrist party and an extremely conservative party.
All of the continued screeching about the evil leftists and socialists is partly a symptom of our politics being so far to the right of a lot of the rest of the modern world and partly a symptom of long term brainwashing from right wing media. There has been a bit of polling done to suggest that when you take some of the propaganda out of the equation that some of her "looniest ideas" are supported by a majority of Americans.
I love the whole thing that I will call the "Linda Sarsour*" effect
as in this is a person I rarely to never hear about from my left wing friends but can't go a day and not hear about from my few remaining right wing friends. I see a similar pattern with AOC. The difference is with AOC every time she is attacked she seems to get stronger and yet the right can't seem to help themselves. If they would just shut up about her she would fade to the background
*don't even know that this name is right or who she is outside of being a right wing boogey-woman
as in this is a person I rarely to never hear about from my left wing friends but can't go a day and not hear about from my few remaining right wing friends. I see a similar pattern with AOC. The difference is with AOC every time she is attacked she seems to get stronger and yet the right can't seem to help themselves. If they would just shut up about her she would fade to the background
*don't even know that this name is right or who she is outside of being a right wing boogey-woman
I guess I'm the outlier here, but my FB feed (which is pretty evenly divided between left and right-leaning folks) has as many pro-AOC posts / memes as it does anti. My left-leaning friends are very fond of her.
Oh yeah, my FB feed is thick with posts slobbering all over AOC. I drew the ire of some when I responded that I don't take economic lessons from bartenders. Of course, that made me a misogynist and racist. Highly predictable response.
While I don't agree with many of the ideas she espouses, I'd be happy to listen to anything she has to present. I'd much rather have someone on fire with fresh ideas - even if I believe they're wrong - than listen to some career politician pontificate about how their experience somehow helps them understand the issues better, despite their never solving any real issues.
Yeah, I certainly don't have much use for typical politician-speak. So formulaic. I obviously don't agree with AOC's big government/socialist solutions, but I'd have more respect for her proposals if they were tethered to reality just a little bit. And, it would be refreshing it she would say, "We need X and Y and Z. And because we'd all benefit from these things, we all need to pay for them." The "like, I deserve X and Y and Z and the people at the tippy top can pay for it 'cause, like, that's fair and stuff" is infantile and divisive and cowardly IMO. If something is really important you should be willing to pay for it.
Not knowing the context, it sounds like you were using her prior job to invalidate her economics degree, which probably went over about as well as you intended. And in case you were curious (Narrator: you were not) she was working in that bar to help supplement her mother's income after her father had died of cancer while she was away in school.
But of course she's a stupid little girl who only wants handouts, and that's none of my business anyway.
Then I have absolutely no idea why people assumed you'd meant to belittle her.
Hmm, I didn't belittle her. I was telling the truth: I don't look to bartenders for any kind of advice other than asking what drinks they make well. But, because I don't think AOC is the greatest thing since sliced bread, it makes me a bad guy to the left-leaning FB twits.
Exactly.
This is called being open minded.
It's also a referendum on what is needed from our politicians. New ideas and fresh faces that are presented with passion and energy.
I don't care what party you represent - please give us voters something to think about and consider that actually effects change - hopefully for the better....but as pointed out....sometimes those ideas are not exactly realistic. But at least you are trying AOC.....a positive by product of youth, I suspect.
I didn't belittle her he said, right before belittling her in the exact same way yet again.
I guess some people are so sensitive they find the truth belittling. I also don't look to bartenders for medical advice, investment advice, parenting advice, or much of anything else. Apologies to any bartenders I may have offended.
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