Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused establishment Democrats of treating her “like shit” as progressive activists urged her to run for president in 2028.
In a 100-minute long video posted on Instagram, the 37-year-old congresswoman from New York said that the party had a “remarkable opportunity” to pass left-wing policies after the midterm elections. She also accused the party’s leadership of starving funds from left-wing candidates during the campaign.
“There’s this huge conversation about candidates that were under invested in,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She cited Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who came within 240,000 votes of flipping Florida from red to blue, but ultimately lost to the Republican candidate Ashley Moody.
“If Angie Nixon had just had a little bit of that support, that outcome could have changed. But that money has to come from somewhere and it comes from these people,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the party’s Senate leadership.
Reflecting on the period after she was first elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez accused senior Democrats of being “horrifically cruel” to her. “I mean I was treated like shit,” she said. “Everybody took a swing at me.”
The Bronx congresswoman is seen as the likeliest progressive candidate to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
In a previous post about AOC candidacy, I said that won’t happen because :
- woman
- woman of color
- US is a deeply racist country
- she’s a woman of color
Some people told that I’m a doomer. I stand by what I said.
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In 2016, Bernie was looking great…until the DNC happened, he sported a black eye, and then endorsed Hillary for some unknown reason. The establishment Dems are just as corrupt as the Repubs. The only hope for America is in the new blood…because the milk’s gone bad.
Trump didn’t win in 2016…Hillary (and DWS) LOST.
AOC should take the House Speaker from Jeffries. It’s where she’s needed most.
I’ll vote for AOC in 2028.
I’m doing it because I believe in her and her policies for improving the material conditions of the working class in USA.
If you can’t bring yourself to vote for her, consider voting AGAINST all of the other stuck up asshats in Congress who think they deserve to have political power.
Great. Let’s have a presidential candidate who is ‘a victim’. How could that possibly go wrong.
The push is not over, there will still be a huge necessity to vote in 2028. We cannot let our guard down, and always remember the momentum we brought into this midterm, anything is possible.
I really don’t want her to run for president yet. I’d rather see her replace schumer first. She is my congresswoman too and am very happy with her. I just fear she might not win presidency yet. Our district is very left wing, so I need to know she can win in a place like New York State that is kind of a microcosm of the whole country
The democrats poured all that money into mississippi, which is looking to flip blue. It was either florida or mississippi. The fact that florida was so close is a good thing. I think mississippi is a larger win.
“PrOgResSiVe AcTiViStS”
You mean to say the people who are trying to keep democracy from falling? Or the ones who are trying to keep a roof over their head and food on the table?
Stfu already.
I’m going to get shit for this opinion, but I think she should run as vice president.
The reason being, a huge part of why Trump won both his elections was that his opponent was a woman - I know a lot of my progressives out there don’t want to believe this, but misogyny is still a major problem in this country, even among progressives and leftists. There are too many people out there who may otherwise have decent politics but will refuse to vote for a woman, that’s a fact we need to acknowledge. Simply put I want a democrat to actually win in 2028 and she as the forerunner reduces those chances.However if she’s vice president that brings out the progressive democrats to the polls while also avoiding this pitfall. At some point in the near future I hope our country is ready to accept leadership from a woman, but our country is still too screwed up for that today.
I’m in Australia thinking that the only people the old Baby boomers and Gen X Democrats aren’t cruel to is Republicans and Israel.
But that pretty much links up with my workplace (minus the Israel).
Old people Haaate everyone under the age of 30… 40… 50 I realised today that I’m a year older than AOC… I don’t remember a time where my generation wasn’t hated by older generations…
Sorry let’s be fair my Nana loved me immensely and she thought we were all great but she was part of the great generation (the people who gave birth to baby boomers).
I’ve got more to say but what I have to say about AI, tech and old people could fill a book almost as long as the book I could write about cyclists and their hypocrisy (FYI I’m always careful of cyclists when I’m driving. Just wish they could be as careful of children playing in a park… But cyclists don’t care about people slower than them… I need to write a book)
The absolute WORST managers/bosses I’ve ever had were Baby Boomers. Outside of work most don’t try or even show any consideration for your well being and what that entails. Slowly going broke, boot straps harder you entitled millennial swine. Work harder for daddy warbucks so my retirement looks good.
I am so polite on my bike when in the sidewalk. Just today, waited first for a guy to walk by slowly, and went onto the grass (thankfully it was the part of my route with a grass strip between road and sidewalk) around another.
It’s my understanding that the sidewalk is for pedestrians and I am supposed to ride in the road, but of course the road is dangerous. We are allowed the sidewalk with a speed limit of 10mph. So I yield always to anyone on foot.
And you HAVE to be careful. Monday night coming home in the dark there was someone sleeping on the sidewalk! If I had been going fast I’d have run them right over.
Maybe Australia needs the sidewalk speed limit? Or if your motorists aren’t so aggressive, ban the bikes from the sidewalk?
Yeah, but we’ll be the same. If some broccoli-haired youth in trousers that are too short turns up at my door canvassing for votes, his policies had better be extraordinarily good to get over my overwhelming first impression of “this guy looks like a twat”.
That made me laugh and I agree.
Sorry let’s be fair my Nana loved me immensely and she thought we were all great but she was part of the great generation (the people who gave birth to baby boomers).
The Silent Generation gave birth to the Baby Boomers.
The Greatest Generation fought in WWII.
Obviously, if you have a very early Boomer with older parents, you’d then have a boomer born to the greatest generation. But the bulk of that generation was from the Silent Generation.
Not entirely true. All of my Grandparents were silent besides one. The way it works is:
Silent -> Gen X -> Gen Z
Greatest Generation -> Baby Boomers -> Millenianals
Unless everyone in your family is made up of teenage pregnancies, it tends to be this pattern from what I’ve observed.
I’m a xennial and even my teenage mom was a boomer (very young one). My grandma is silent generation though (another young pregnancy!).
I don’t think you quite understand what baby boomers are. They are the generation of children born immediately after World War II (1946- the 1950’s). They are the kids of the soldiers who came back from the war and who’s lives were heavily impacted by the various programs that were put into place at the time to encourage families like affordable housing, job incentives, and funding for college. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill)
The silent generation are the people who were born amid World War II (1935-1945). And were growing up while the baby boomers were being born.
I don’t like the fact that she is stating “if we had more money we would’ve won”. Fuck money in politics. Most of those voting don’t have much money so it should not be a factor, yet it is the be all and end all.
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Im so glad I get my news from lemmy and don’t give websites that do this the scraps of my privacy for them to sell
This is why they lost in 2015, and 2023.