Recently AOC did a pathetic fawning interview with some pseudo-radical Jacobin hack who offered zero pushback and just went along with whatever she spouted and affirmed her so as to help her create the persona of being some radical anti-imperialist hero. It’s an instructive episode in what I have diagnosed before as the
DSA is a big red flag to me. These clowns are nothing more than liberal, center right Reagan conservatives, cosplaying as people pretending to give a fuck. They don't. It's all virtue signalling.
Thank you for writing this article, Zei. This is the type of constructive article I wish more left-wingers wrote instead of just doing those lame “own the libs” stuff against her.
I really cannot believe you blocked me on Twitter! So disappointing that a person I thought was an independent thinker and followed and read cannot take an honest challenge from a normal person.
This may be a bit reaching, but I feel that much of the American Left (the real left) has drifted away from AOC as much as she drifted away from her initial campaign. There’s no doubt that she has betrayed many of her promises such as her now being soft on Israel and siding with establishment Democrats.
However, this may be just me speaking for myself, but a lot of the American left has radicalized to the point that someone pushing for “FDR style liberalism” isn’t going to cut it. I feel a good example of this is how Cornel West is becoming the voice of the current left and how hat is such a contrast to when it was Bernie Sanders back when AOC was a rising star still in her honeymoon period.
DSA is a big red flag to me. These clowns are nothing more than liberal, center right Reagan conservatives, cosplaying as people pretending to give a fuck. They don't. It's all virtue signalling.
Thank you for writing this article, Zei. This is the type of constructive article I wish more left-wingers wrote instead of just doing those lame “own the libs” stuff against her.
I really cannot believe you blocked me on Twitter! So disappointing that a person I thought was an independent thinker and followed and read cannot take an honest challenge from a normal person.
Richard Medhurst put it best:
“And then they [the Squad] call themselves “progressive”…what the fuck does that mean? You’re an Imperialist who wants Healthcare.”
This may be a bit reaching, but I feel that much of the American Left (the real left) has drifted away from AOC as much as she drifted away from her initial campaign. There’s no doubt that she has betrayed many of her promises such as her now being soft on Israel and siding with establishment Democrats.
However, this may be just me speaking for myself, but a lot of the American left has radicalized to the point that someone pushing for “FDR style liberalism” isn’t going to cut it. I feel a good example of this is how Cornel West is becoming the voice of the current left and how hat is such a contrast to when it was Bernie Sanders back when AOC was a rising star still in her honeymoon period.