this has always been said before but the amount of times she goes from "good" to "bad" is fucking hilarious. Like you should be able to know by now her foreign policy is pretty shit in a lot of ways. I think a lot people put stock in her and have a harder time admitting one of the favs is just good in comparison to how cartoonishly evil so many US politicians are, it warps your idea of "good."
Most people I think saw her as a successor to Bernie, but that hasn't really been the case for them (even me). Idk really what to think of her. I can't truly convince myself she is bad, but I can't label as good. Most of the best socialists in America will not be politicians. As for what to do with her, I'm sorta convinced if we are to yell at her, twitter isn't the place. Probably will just start emailing her or something. Hopefully some further left people live in her district can yell at her in town halls. I can't bring myself to view her as a completely lost cause. Maybe I've naive, but who knows.
agree. the thing too is like it's not wrong to want politicians to be good, it's wrong to make excuses for them when they get it wrong. I did hope she would be a successor of bernie as well, and I'm also not even anti-AOC, she still speaks on important things that happen here, especially in a way most politicians wont even comment about. There is just some areas she is objectively bad, as with most people, no one is perfect.
i mean it's a meme now to say, "were gonna push x left" but i don't disagree with the idea, if you're in a position to hopefully influence any politician into a better position, do it. Takes a few minutes to bang out some tweets or make some calls or whatever you feel like you can do. I try to not be a nihilists about shit because it's not good, even if it feels right sometimes. Hope is an important thing in this fucked up world, it's also important to have if you're serious about change happening.
The only way a socialist of any flavor can stay true to the cause is if they are unambiguously elected as a socialist of a socialist workers party, while understanding the whole point of them being in office is to use their position of power to publically undermine the State and empower peoples councils.
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this has always been said before but the amount of times she goes from "good" to "bad" is fucking hilarious. Like you should be able to know by now her foreign policy is pretty shit in a lot of ways. I think a lot people put stock in her and have a harder time admitting one of the favs is just good in comparison to how cartoonishly evil so many US politicians are, it warps your idea of "good."
Most people I think saw her as a successor to Bernie, but that hasn't really been the case for them (even me). Idk really what to think of her. I can't truly convince myself she is bad, but I can't label as good. Most of the best socialists in America will not be politicians. As for what to do with her, I'm sorta convinced if we are to yell at her, twitter isn't the place. Probably will just start emailing her or something. Hopefully some further left people live in her district can yell at her in town halls. I can't bring myself to view her as a completely lost cause. Maybe I've naive, but who knows.
agree. the thing too is like it's not wrong to want politicians to be good, it's wrong to make excuses for them when they get it wrong. I did hope she would be a successor of bernie as well, and I'm also not even anti-AOC, she still speaks on important things that happen here, especially in a way most politicians wont even comment about. There is just some areas she is objectively bad, as with most people, no one is perfect.
i mean it's a meme now to say, "were gonna push x left" but i don't disagree with the idea, if you're in a position to hopefully influence any politician into a better position, do it. Takes a few minutes to bang out some tweets or make some calls or whatever you feel like you can do. I try to not be a nihilists about shit because it's not good, even if it feels right sometimes. Hope is an important thing in this fucked up world, it's also important to have if you're serious about change happening.
The only way a socialist of any flavor can stay true to the cause is if they are unambiguously elected as a socialist of a socialist workers party, while understanding the whole point of them being in office is to use their position of power to publically undermine the State and empower peoples councils.