Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has gone from being considered a far-left backbencher when she was first elected in 2018, to one of the Democratic Party's most prominent rising stars — and with that has come swirling questions and rumors about whether she plans to seek higher office.Former Bara...

“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    131·
    2 days ago

    The trouble with fighting against genuine leftists is that everyone in the rightwing opposition to them is in it to win individually and sees it like sports where you root for a team and thus rightwing movements are endlessly, hopelessly fragile whereas the leftists are in it for policies and ideology to win and thus using leverage over specific leftists to silence or sabotage them even when successful does not actually threaten the win condition leftists are going for.

    I would DEFINITELY vote for AOC, she would be great.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 days ago

      Don’t underestimate the right

      Boat loads of people are in there for the policies like extremist religion, the ability to discriminate and hate, that sort of stuff.

      Lots of people are in it just to be able to be a vile human being

  • absolutetupperware@lemmy.today
    4·
    2 days ago

    that would mean a lot if we didn’t live in an electoralist country. these millionaire politicians will cosplay as homeless people if it gets them the win