Here I go with the AOC apologist posting and I absolutely will make it a wall of text as usual:
She has literally been better for our actual leftist organization on the ground than anything in the last 10 years. She isn’t personally funneling people into the DSA or the communist caucus of it, but she is absolutely a pipeline for people here in her district. I worked in her election campaigns here in Queens and know a handful of people who actually work for her now.
The short story I normally give is that ten years ago we’d be lucky to do one or two food drives a month for mutual aid. We’d have about a dozen or so volunteers after setting up a table and handing out brochures. After AOC’s election and the DSA’s recent expansion we’ve had enough volunteers to not only do weekly food drives, but we have a waiting list to be a volunteer that goes months in advance. When Covid hit, AOC worked with us personally to go door to door and hand out aid to families in need on one of the first Saturdays in lockdown. She asked what we’d need and bought three entire weeks of all the aid we could manage to give out in that time on her own dime. We thought this would be a photo op but she showed up personally with one aide, no cameras, no media, and went door to door handing out aid with us. She’s honestly incredibly genuine and didn’t try to take on a leading role or make it about her. Then she showed up on Sunday and did the same with us pretty much only going off of the meeting the group had at the end of the day.
Is AOC perfect? No, obviously, and one day I hope I see her in Central Park after getting challenged from the left. Is AOC absolutely genuine about trying to help people/cares deeply about her community? Definitely. This has empowered us to actually organize and expand our actually socialist agenda here in NYC and queens specifically to the point where we have a city councilman who previously worked with us and through the DSA got elected. He’s now openly calling for an actual socialist agenda and has real power in this system to help improve the material conditions of the people living here, which in turn empowers the socialist movement.
AOC isn’t the be-all and end-all of this movement, she really is just the beginning.
God for once someone posts a reasonable take. There are a million doomers who post that AOC is the next Warren or the next Obama or some shit that's just completely ignorant of her background or the work she's doing in her own district. She has had a million opportunities to sell the left out for material gain but hasn't. She does mutual aid in her spare time. She literally claims the socialist label while Obama barely called himself a Democrat.
People are flawed, politicians are flawed and should be criticized when they fuck up. And to be clear, AOC has absolutely fucked up plenty while in Congress (the most egregious being helping cover up Biden's rape allegation). And if they fuck up too much they should get thrown out of office. But for fuck's sake, anyone who thinks she's selling us out or has been captured by Pelosi or whatever is doing QAnon-tier political analysis.
Hold on let me go take back all of the food we’ve donated with people who have joined our aid group pretty explicitly because AOC inspired them to get involved in their communities.
You don’t have to like her, I’m telling you as a fact that just her being where she is has changed the situation to where the left has actual power here in New York now. Instead of shitting on it because it’s not your preferred method, maybe consider how this route may help you as well
Here I go with the AOC apologist posting and I absolutely will make it a wall of text as usual:
She has literally been better for our actual leftist organization on the ground than anything in the last 10 years. She isn’t personally funneling people into the DSA or the communist caucus of it, but she is absolutely a pipeline for people here in her district. I worked in her election campaigns here in Queens and know a handful of people who actually work for her now.
The short story I normally give is that ten years ago we’d be lucky to do one or two food drives a month for mutual aid. We’d have about a dozen or so volunteers after setting up a table and handing out brochures. After AOC’s election and the DSA’s recent expansion we’ve had enough volunteers to not only do weekly food drives, but we have a waiting list to be a volunteer that goes months in advance. When Covid hit, AOC worked with us personally to go door to door and hand out aid to families in need on one of the first Saturdays in lockdown. She asked what we’d need and bought three entire weeks of all the aid we could manage to give out in that time on her own dime. We thought this would be a photo op but she showed up personally with one aide, no cameras, no media, and went door to door handing out aid with us. She’s honestly incredibly genuine and didn’t try to take on a leading role or make it about her. Then she showed up on Sunday and did the same with us pretty much only going off of the meeting the group had at the end of the day.
Is AOC perfect? No, obviously, and one day I hope I see her in Central Park after getting challenged from the left. Is AOC absolutely genuine about trying to help people/cares deeply about her community? Definitely. This has empowered us to actually organize and expand our actually socialist agenda here in NYC and queens specifically to the point where we have a city councilman who previously worked with us and through the DSA got elected. He’s now openly calling for an actual socialist agenda and has real power in this system to help improve the material conditions of the people living here, which in turn empowers the socialist movement.
AOC isn’t the be-all and end-all of this movement, she really is just the beginning.
God for once someone posts a reasonable take. There are a million doomers who post that AOC is the next Warren or the next Obama or some shit that's just completely ignorant of her background or the work she's doing in her own district. She has had a million opportunities to sell the left out for material gain but hasn't. She does mutual aid in her spare time. She literally claims the socialist label while Obama barely called himself a Democrat.
People are flawed, politicians are flawed and should be criticized when they fuck up. And to be clear, AOC has absolutely fucked up plenty while in Congress (the most egregious being helping cover up Biden's rape allegation). And if they fuck up too much they should get thrown out of office. But for fuck's sake, anyone who thinks she's selling us out or has been captured by Pelosi or whatever is doing QAnon-tier political analysis.
Pin this comment and lock the fucking thread.
TL;DR aoc is a fucking meme stop posting this embarassing cring
Hold on let me go take back all of the food we’ve donated with people who have joined our aid group pretty explicitly because AOC inspired them to get involved in their communities.
You don’t have to like her, I’m telling you as a fact that just her being where she is has changed the situation to where the left has actual power here in New York now. Instead of shitting on it because it’s not your preferred method, maybe consider how this route may help you as well