What's wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Imperialism
- Voted to expand NATO to Finland and Sweden. On the same day this vote became public, she pretends to get handcuffed during a defend abortion rally outside the supreme court rally,, then asks for donations in emails.
- Voted for Trump's 2020 War budget, allocating $738 Billion to military spending (a 3% increase over the previous year).
- She votes to keep the US in NATO, who's been responsible for countless atrocities in Europe and the Middle East.
- After Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed coup, she retracts her pro-Morales statements, meets with a coup-supporting group in Washington, and tweets in support of the viciously anti-indigenous government of Jean Anez. 2, 3
- In the July 2021 protests in Cuba, she called Cuban president Diaz-Canal's "anti-democratic actions.", 2 She condemned the socialist government’s “suppression of the media, speech and protest.”
- She supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans.
- When asked about her vote of "present", rather than no, that allocates an extras $1B USD to Israel, she defends it by saying it was a "micro"-decision that creates "a window that brings all folks to the table".
- AOC and the squad consistently vote against what they preach.
- After an anti-war activist posted a video of AOC waffling on a question about Palestine, he's interrogated by California highway patrol who claimed he issued a death threat against AOC. In reality, his tweet said: "her response was underwhelming to say the least." Its unknown whether AOC initiated the interrogation.
- Is against pardoning Julian Assange.
- Goes along with democrats and Republicans in backing US puppet Juan Guaido over Maduro in Venezuela.
- After the December 2020 Elections in Venezuala, she defends Juan Guaido, and calls Maduro an "authoritarian" yet again.
- In 2021, qualified that she only doesn't support a US invasion of Haiti, "without a plan", "right now".
- AOC pays homage to "Tibetan Uprising Day", a CIA-sponsored campaign to restore the brutal Tibetan theocracy and re-institute slavery.
- Stands with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the right-wing pro-Trump Hong Kong rioters in their condemnation of China and its supposed "concentration camps."
- Believes, like other democrats, that Russia rigs US elections
- After Trump fires John Bolton (who tried and failed at starting wars with North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran), she goes full neocon, angry that Trump isn't going to war with North Korea.
- Refused to talk with an Okinawan representative about the US military occupation there.
- In 2009 AOC travelled to Niger as part of a USAID program. USAID is a CIA affiliated program that backs regime change abroad (under the guise of ‘promoting democracy’.) In 2010 the Niger Government was replaced in a coup, with the US publicly backing the new regime. The previous Niger Government had ended a French monopoly on Uranium mining in their country and was looking instead to partner with China.. After the coup the French monopoly was re-instated – with dire consequences for Niger.
- After being criticized during a town hall meeting for bringing the world closer to nuclear war for her vote to arm Ukraine, she accused her critic of "speaking over a deaf person". She knew the deaf person wasn't in attendence, she was only reading that person's email.
Domestic issues
- Calls for budget cuts for DHS, due to their child detention camps and family separations, then goes back on it by voting to fully fund them along with other democrats.
- After Biden opens new child immigrant detention facilities in February 2021, she stops calling them "concentration camps", and names them "influx facilities".
- AOC wants abolish ICE, only to replace it with a resurrected INS, yet another agency whose goal was breaking up families.
- After the 2021 capitol riots, AOC defends law and order, and calls the republicans cowards for not supporting the police.
- AOC selling "law and order" and "family values" and not being "weak on crime" as socialist values.
- Defends the NYPD during the George Floyd protests, since there are women, black, latino and asian american cops.
- In December 2020, after a proposal by comic Jimmy Dore, for house democrats to refuse support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unless she agrees to bring a Medicare for all bill to the house, to bring relief for US citizens who lost healthcare during the pandemic. AOC and the rest of the "squad" refused, and backed Pelosi, citing concerns that the bill would not win anyway. Dore retorted that 9 / 10 democratic voters, and even a majority of republican voters support medicare for all.
- After bucking M4A during the COVID pandemic, AOC touts a FEMA funeral reimbursement program as an acheivement.
Really? Because a lot of people voted for them, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten elected. Maybe nobody on this site was convinced of that, but I think it's worth remembering that 99% of politicians who get elected in the US don't even make a pretense of being socialists. It seems to me that we should devote our time to addressing the bigger problem, and the bigger group. If we replaced every succdem with a committed M-L, it still wouldn't have much of an effect. Succdems wield so little power that it doesn't seem worthwhile to care about them.
well this site is who you were talking to when you asked. remember your own question? you asked the following:
I can't answer for anyone else.
Right. And when those politicians betray the working class, it's business as usual. When some "socialist" politician betrays the working class (or supports bombing Yugoslavia like Bernie Sanders did in the 90s), it is under the banner of socialism, and the right gets to point to AOC and say "see, the socialists don't actually care about you!" AOC carrying around the label "socialist" and then being a basic bourgeois reformist ends up funcitoning as a propaganda victory for the right.
we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Then they need to get over it. Like, sorry the succdem let you down, learn from it and move on. I don't really care that your ex let you down.
I've never heard a chud bring up Yugoslavia. Generally the bigger propaganda thrust is like, "Gommunism no food 11 gozillion dead," or whatever. Imo, just being like, "Who's AOC?" and pointing out the right's disproportionate obsession with her is an adequate response.
you need to get over it. sorry hexbear let you down, learn from it move on, I don't really care that the website annoyed you by talking about your ex
(see how empty that is?)
Lol. Hexbear is obsessing over a tiny, insignificant faction in US politics because of, according to you, feeling betrayed by a succdem. I'm arguing that we shouldn't give so much weight to that faction because it's not strategically important. These aren't equivalent.
I've already explained that nobody is "obsessed." Simply saying that the one faction in US politics that claims to be socialist and actually has elected seats in the house is behaving bourgeois and running the name of socialism through the mud. If you aren't willing to engage with that then I don't know what to tell you. Have a nice evening. I won't be wasting any more of my time arguing with you about this. We are perfectly capable of criticizing people other than AOC and usually do! It's just that she's done something very anti-labor over the past 24 hours so it's in the news.
PS: Pretending people are "obsessed" with AOC when people are rightly criticizing her for doing something anti-labor while pretending to be socialist in the last 24 hours is pretty absurd btw. Yes. The succdem disappointed us. Yes we're going to talk about it. Complaining about people "talking about AOC too much" is still talking about AOC, so welcome aboard.