yes, I did stop lurking specifically to post this screenshot about the dress
Also, since I don't see it talked about around here much, ATTENTION Kshama is currently in a recall fight with the recall vote (which will then trigger an election) coming up in a few months, consider donating to the solidarity campaign or phonebanking or some shit, I know some of you libs still volunteer for beto
I think I phrased it badly because I'm high,but what I mean is that as a person in congress, she has inherent power. She's known and she has a platform. I don't mean she refused to press the communism button that every congressperson has on their desk, but that she's failing to do with the office the only thing that can really be done: be a beacon for the working class to help them organize and to direct their anger and raise consciousnessShe mostly just says that these policies are good and we should do them and stops there. She should be working to foster mass working class movements to push for policy improvements like raising the minimum wage, demilitarizing police, green new deal, m4a, etc etc, but those things can only be accomplished by using the platform of the office in concert with the working class, they won't be given to us they have to be won through mass action organization and pressure-- not by doing splashy things that last for like 4 days before the news cycle sweeps it away. But hey, maybe I'll end up looking stupid because this is actually the first step in her master plan to start doing exactly what I'm talking about, and I'll take the L if that happens, but it seems pretty unlikely, given her track record
Hope that made sense
Edit: just realized that you quoted the post and not me lmao, But this is how I interpreted it anyway
That does phrase it better and I agree with your take here.
While I do think that AOC and her ilk should do more to mobilize people to take action to press for policies that they claim to support (and likely do actually, in my opinion), we could do more ourselves. We don't need to wait for AOC to tell us what to do.
Depends who 'we' is, cause I (and probably a much higher % of people on here than the general pop) am politically active in an org and on the streets, but I do get what you mean, the general population can definitely could do more
This is where AOC, or rather a working class organizer with her platform, would come in, by being a political pole for working class folks who aren't engaged and don't know what to do (or at least their options seem muddled and unclear), and you don't do that by telling them which policies are good and we should really get these policies, but by building mass movements of working people from the ground up, rather than the top down