Is there anything more disappointing that USAmerican socdems?
Not that I know of. “Here’s how bernie can still win” … on repeat ad nauseam no matter how many black people get killed by police forces under democrats.
Possibly controversial opinion here, but I’m inclined to look the other way with this. AOC has brought a lot of relatively far left stances into the public sphere. Anti-DPRK propaganda is deeply entrenched in the minds of most Americans, and if she said even a hint of something that would take away ‘blame’ she would get battered over the head with it constantly. Bourgeois democracy is really flawed, but if there is a candidate that represents the views of ordinary people in her area, I view it as an achievement for her to get elected in such a corrupt system. If she tweeted out “Let the streets flow with the blood of blood of the bourgeoisie!” and posted guillotine memes, that might just affect her polling statistics negatively, in a deranged country. Conservatives are totally obsessed with her in a really creepy way, and make fun of her for crazy shit she’s never even said.
I might be making excuses, but I don’t think any leftist can make excuses for Bernie Sanders voting to bomb Yugoslavia (Serbia).
In the sense that we should defend her from sexism, I 100% agree, but let’s not forget that she’s just as imperialist as sanders is.
What’s wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
- She’s a social democrat, not a socialist, fronting for the Democratic party.
- AOC asks all supporters to vote for democrats, including Andrew Cuomo.
- Calls for budget cuts for DHS, due to their child detention camps and family separations, then goes back on it by voting to fully fund them along with other democrats.
- She votes to keep the US in NATO, who’s been responsible for countless atrocities in Europe and the Middle East.
- AOC says she will vote for Biden in the 2020 election, saying, “I think it’s incredibly important we support the Democratic nominee in November”.
- Going back on her promise to only back “progressive democrats” after her election to congress in 2018, she backs Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house.
- Says her policies are more reminiscent of Norway than Caracas, repeating the right wing myth of socialism destroying Venezuela, and wrongly conflating nordic social democracy with socialism.
- Says its possible to be both a “democratic socialist” and a Capitalist.
- Thinks the US military is socialist. Thinks social services like schools and libraries are socialist.
- AOC selling “law and order” and “family values” and not being “weak on crime” as socialist values.
- Defends the NYPD during the George Floyd protests, since there are women, black, latino and asian american cops.
- AOC wants abolish ICE, only to replace it with a resurrected INS, yet another agency whose goal was breaking up families.
- As of 2020, replaces some of her more radical staff with political professionals, breaks with Sanders, calling his strategy too “conflict based”, wants to start working more with establishment Dems.
- Voted for Trump’s 2020 War budget, allocating $738 Billion to military spending (a 3% increase over the previous year).
- She supports Israel, and its genocide of Palestineans.
- Goes along with democrats and Republicans in backing US puppet Juan Guaido over Maduro in Venezuela.
- Believes, like other democrats, that Russia rigs US elections
- After Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed coup, she retracts her pro-Morales statements, and meets with a coup-supporting group in Washington. 1
- After Trump fires John Bolton (who tried and failed at starting wars with North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran), she goes full neocon, angry that Trump isn’t going to war with North Korea.
- Believes that Trump “betrays” US values.
- Claims that socialist theory is only for priviledged few with college educated parents, and that working class people aren’t capable of understanding theory. Is unaware of the Spanish-speaking socialist tradition.
That’s certainly a lot of bad things that I’ll have to look through.
- She’s a social democrat, not a socialist, fronting for the Democratic party.
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She stands the Bolivian and Venezuelan opposition. And even in her internal policies she’s pretty terrible, she wants to resurrect INS to replace ICE, defends the NYPD, etc.
