AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long
AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long
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AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long
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Left-wing scrutiny of the Squad and particularly Representative Ocasio-Cortez has steadily veered from constructive criticism and needed pressure to a kind of caricaturish vitriol.
Jacobin is clearly panicked by the possibility that the Outsider Left might not actually inherit the Democratic Party’s mantle, but seems unwilling to ask why or to suggest a solution.
This op-ed consists of hand-waving apologetics that glaze over AOC’s often neoliberal voting record with feel-good references to, for example, the legacy of the failed Green New Deal, and it reads like an excuse.
Perhaps Jacobin is merely attempting to convince itself, but an injunction to think of “the health of the socialist and broader progressive movements” feels pathetic at the end of an article that’s largely failed to defend the socialist Wunderkinder against the leftist critique that they’re all just regular old Democrats now.
It’s tough being a member of the “Squad” these days.
Is it really, though? AOC and her ilk further their careers by happily selling their politically-profitable, “socialist” personas to a tragically hoodwinked outer-left constituency that’s just hopeful for meaningful change.
See ya at the next Met Gala, AOC.
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Maybe you should give it a shot and see if you can do better.
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I'm sorry, Congress accomplished something?
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Gee, it's almost as if the GOP wants you to think there's no point in voting.
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Killing parts of the Patriot Act and stopping our government from selling more weapons to a Bolivian government that coup'd its way into power don't seem like fluffy conjecture to me (and those are just the next two things after the $5million)
e; got my "it's" and "its" backwards
Pray tell, how are a handful of the 435 representatives the house supposed to pass meaningful legislation on their own?
They vote on moderate bills because there's no better alternative and no way to get there YET. Cultivating an image around progressive ideas at least ensures that they enter the public discourse. This will take time to wrench the pendulum back from the center right
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Not to mention, a lot of Congressional work happens in committee and in their home states. Counting primary sponsorship of bills is a terrible way to measure activity.
Yeah, but you need to get the R and conservative D seats to change to progressives for that to happen.
A squad of representatives that you can count on one hand isn't enough of a voting block to force major change. It isn't like replacing AOC would fix the issue.
I didn't know they made clickbait comments now too
Flat tax is fucking stupid. It's not just about contributing more or less, because someone making 20k a year contributing 10% hits a lot harder than someone making 400k paying the same %.