Honestly, if ostensibly voting against your principles leads you to crying as you vote, idk maybe you should just go with your principles and deal with any blowback later?
AOC can have that House seat for life and there's nothing the DNC can do about it. She's a celeb now. Even if she did lose it, she's set. She can make a killing on The View or something. I genuinely understand feeling like you have to play ball with the party if for no reason other than they can make your time in Congress miserable. But jfc her foreign policy takes and votes especially are just so bad.
For years I've critically supported her, maybe I still do to an extent but it's getting harder every day.
AOC can have that House seat for life and there’s nothing the DNC can do about it.
They'll spend ten million an election primarying her, while stripping her of every useful aspect of holding a House seat. The New York leg gerrymander her district to shreds. Media will run smear campaigns night and day for years. Eventually, they make her so miserable that she either quits or fucks up and loses.
For years I’ve critically supported her, maybe I still do to an extent but it’s getting harder every day.
I think its easy to pretend "I'd be doing better". But look at our boy in Virginia, Lee Carter. Just about as good on every issue you could ask for... and they ground him down and out inside four years.
Honestly, if ostensibly voting against your principles leads you to crying as you vote, idk maybe you should just go with your principles and deal with any blowback later?
AOC can have that House seat for life and there's nothing the DNC can do about it. She's a celeb now. Even if she did lose it, she's set. She can make a killing on The View or something. I genuinely understand feeling like you have to play ball with the party if for no reason other than they can make your time in Congress miserable. But jfc her foreign policy takes and votes especially are just so bad.
For years I've critically supported her, maybe I still do to an extent but it's getting harder every day.
They'll spend ten million an election primarying her, while stripping her of every useful aspect of holding a House seat. The New York leg gerrymander her district to shreds. Media will run smear campaigns night and day for years. Eventually, they make her so miserable that she either quits or fucks up and loses.
I think its easy to pretend "I'd be doing better". But look at our boy in Virginia, Lee Carter. Just about as good on every issue you could ask for... and they ground him down and out inside four years.
It's an ugly fight, even at the top.