The week old anti-stravation switch up from the American establishment makes AOC's capitulation two weeks ago even more disgusting and cowardly in hindsight (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by CyborgMarx@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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It's not just MTG out-flanking AOC and Sanders, Richie fuckin Torres with his play-acting has outflanked them too

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[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

The way this keeps happening to AOC and Sanders feels like they're cursed

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

It's a combination of not being as genuinely progressive as they claimed to be and being locked up in the DC echo chamber bubble FOR YEARS

I will assert confidently that for the last 5 years neither AOC or Bernie have talked to a single human being who even halfway approaches our politics

I don't think either of them could even comprehend half of the takes we pump out here

[-] Chana@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

It is being liberal cowards who toe the party line while being excluded from the party strategy table. Their role is to sheepdog and that means they eat shit when they inevitably support a reactionary candidate or policy or party line that is likely to get walked back. The alternative would be that they act as real critics or gadflies, but they are comfortably avoiding being so lest they get the Bernie Bro treatment, which is to say, party pushback (as weak as it is!).

They are more right wing than they describe themselves to be, yes, but they do not even allow themselves many opportunities to appropriate the left and create some kind of socdem "resistance" because of this calculus. AOC would love to be the pro-Palestine darling if it didn't mean a direct confrontation with the party machine and donors.