• lumony@lemmings.world
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    Don’t think I can support anyone running against AOC. She’s the best candidate by a country mile.

    It’s not even that she’s so spectacular, it’s just the other options are horrendously shit.

    Gearing up for the tsunamis of useful idiots though telling me why we need a moderate candidate just like hillary and kamala.

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    Good. I’ll never forgive that simpering, cowardly, weak, spineless bitch for stabbing Al Franken in the back. He should quit while has a chance to do it without looking too bad, but if he won’t, she should run him out in embarrassing and humiliating fashion.

    AOC got into Congress by beating the #4 Democratic Congressional leader in the primary, now she’s poised to beat the top Senate Democrat in the primary. She’s an actual giant killer. All other Democrats should take note - it’s not her politics that people are responding to, it’s her strength. We need people who aren’t afraid to stand up to the Nazis, and she is fearless.

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      It is her politics and her strength, and Also her transparency and her target demographic. She represents the people - not the big corporations, even the corporations that favor Democrats. She’s here for the 99%, and to help her people, she is willing to take from the top 1% that never should have the money they possess.

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      I just want her to run for president. But after fielding 2 uninspiring establishment centre-right candidates with no grassroots base, that offer nothing exciting, the Democrats and even many voters think that women in general are unelectable.

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        I just don’t think very highly of Americans in general. They are too sexist, too racist, and too elitist.

        They want a rich old white man. Only one time ever did they attempt something else, and that lead directly to a third of the country becoming extremists.

        I love AOC. Hope she will become president one day. But please just run with someone that your sexist, racist, elitist neighbors can actually vote for.

        Let AOC become Senate majority leader first. That would be really cool, impactful, and help people get used to her.

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          I’d LOVE to see AOC as president, but I think this post is sopt on perfect. I think she could do some amazing good as Senate Minority, and eventually Majority Leader, and become president a bit later in life.

          Gerald Ford was once addressing a classroom, and one of the kids asked him if a woman would ever be President, and he said that a woman would definitely be president someday, but the first woman president wouldnt be directly elected. He thought the first woman president would be a vice president, who gets promoted when the president dies. After that, a woman wouldn’t have a problem getting elected. I thought that was a pretty insightful read on the weird bigotry of Americans.

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        Yeah. Democrats chose to run some of the worst candidates in history.

        It’s sad that now a female candidate guarantees a trump victory. Nominating conservative female candidates did more harm than good.

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        That’s why he needs to resign now, so she can navigate whatever mechanism NY has to replace him (special election or governnor appointment). He might as well quit now, he has no coherent plan to resist the Nazis for the next 3 years, just appeasement and capitulation. Get out of the way and let someone who wants to do the job have a crack at it.

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      I was thinking more like President but you do you.

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    The ONLY thing I’m learning from these Polls is that we need to go FURTHER RIGHT and Bring Back HARRIS!

    -The DNC!

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      Biden is already offering to come out of retirement to help!

      Fuck off you old POS. I’m so ready for someone like AOC to be the front runner. This country needs it whether the majority of people realize it or not.

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      If she loses, it could be the end of her political career. So it’s definitely a risk. At the same time, if he loses it will be as well. He better resign if he thinks it will be even close.

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          It could be… I just think in politics when you lose big races, you have a stink on you that’s hard to get off. People won’t believe she can win another big race, so they’ll take her less seriously.

          It’s not guaranteed, it’s just a thing that happens in politics.

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          Because, in the game of thrones, you win or you die.

          Seriously, though, I don’t necessarily agree. Though it’s not the norm, people DO come back after losing high profile races.

          Just look at how establishment media can’t kick their Hillary addiction, or how Kari Lake somehow remains relevant in spite of never winning anything but Arizona GOP primaries, which are basically just bigotry state fairs.

          If they can, AOC DEFINITELY can.

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        If she loses, the country is cooked. We might be cooked anyway, but like, double cooked. Refried.

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    Cue the next learned essay about how what Democratic voters really want is centrists in 3, 2, 1…

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      The US has a centrist party? I thought it was right-wing or far right-wing, but to US voters, the former is “left”.

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        You thought correctly.

        No matter how much the billionaire owned establishment media narrative tries to tell people otherwise, state and federal level politicians in the US are significantly further right wing than the electorate they’re supposed to accurately represent and have been for decades.

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    It’s amazing to me that she’s still only a congresswoman. I can’t think of anybody who has been in the national spotlight for that long without moving up to at least senator, if not a cabinet position.

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      Useful idiots keep shouting “she’s too young” while voting for dinosaurs.

      Really puts into perspective how ‘smart’ the average voter is.

      Citizens United was such a misstep, because most people can’t think for themselves and their votes can be bought by convincing them that voting for X will make them look good in front of their peers.

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      She speaks reality. People in control deal with very controlled messaging. They don’t like people they can’t control.

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      She first got elected in 2018. How many senators got there within three election cycles of their first office? Just because Obama went from Illinois State Senate to US Senate to President in a four year span doesn’t make such a climb normal.

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        It’s not just Obama. Reagan spent only 2 terms, 8 years as governor of California before becoming president. George W Bush spent only 5 years as governor of Texas before becoming president. JD Vance only spent 2 years as a senator before becoming VP.

        For people who haven’t become president, Tammy Duckworth spent only 4 years as a congresswoman before being elected to the senate. John McCain was only a congressman for 4 years before becoming a senator.

        Generally people who get national name recognition that quickly don’t hang out in congress that long. Once they hit the senate, sometimes their progress stalls. See Biden, Warren, Bernie, McCain, John Edwards, John Kerry, Bob Dole, etc. But, normally national name recognition = senate, at a minimum.

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    she better research if schumers districts only vote for someone like him over her, because if they do, she isnt likely to win regardless.