• carbohydra [des/pair]
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    4 years ago

    How did she become like this? Was she always like this? Did they threaten her? Did the brainworms just spread by osmosis?

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There are no forces pulling her left. She is not dependant on the active support of the working class to keep her seat. There are no rank and file party members that can recall her, or who have to select her as the candidate. There is no viable leftist competitor on the ballot. As long as someone doesn't mount a successful primary campaign against her, she is safe in her seat.

      On the other hand the entire democratic party, the bourgeois media and the elevated position of being a member of Congress itself pulls her to the right.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I feel like she always kind of was. The same interview where she said reading theory was classist also had her defending Obama, saying that the voters let him down and that's why he did what he did. There's a lot of libs who flirt with the aesthetic and slogans of leftism without actually doing anything about it. Remember when Grimes also claimed to be against imperialism before dating Elon Musk? It's the same as "leftists" in the US claiming to be against US imperialism while also caping for it whenever China or Russia are brought up.

    • honeynut
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      1 year ago

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      • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        She took the wrong lesson though, might as well detonate the vest instead of groveling because they've shown that they're never going to actually cede any ground to the left

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        The capital riot also played a part in a way. She became much friendlier with the Democrats after that if I'm remembering correctly.

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      She graduated cum laude from BU double majoring in internation relations and economics while interning for Ted Kennedy. She was always just a progressive liberal.

    • 1111br2222 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      She started like this. I feel like people sort of project onto AOC and to be fair she goes along with it playing up the bartender thing, but how many legit leftist has anyone here met who came out of highschool wanting to be career politicians?