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‘My ambition is to change the country,’ AOC says when asked about seeking higher office in 2028 (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 50 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Nothing would delight me more than seeing her name on the ballot. We need more people like her and Mamdani in politics

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly we need people even further to the left of her at this point but if it’s her or a neolib I’m AOC all day baby let’s goooo

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    We got where we are through steady shifts to the right over the course of decades. As nice as it would be to just vote in who we need right now, getting 50% of the population to agree about who that would be is impossible.

    AOC may not be perfect, but she'd represent a first of (hopefully) many steady shifts to the left that will eventually get us where we need to be. Of course that's if she even gets that far in the first place with how corrupt the system is. I'm not sure we'll get the chance without truly fighting and dying for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    AOC may not be perfect, but she’d represent a first of (hopefully) many steady shifts to the left that will eventually get us where we need to be.

    I hope it goes much faster than the incrementalists claim it will.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Every small step will be a battle. Republicans have the benefit of having all the wealthy elite on their side to fund the incremental push, we have to fight against it like salmon swimming up a river. We'll be a pink half-dead mess when we get to the end if we're lucky enough to get there at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Every small step will be a battle.

    Then we'll need better politicians. We'll get nothing but capitulation from our current crop of useless bastards.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yeah, that would be the fight. AOC is the best chance we've got right now, and if she wins, we'll need to get more people in that are closer to her political stance, then we can choose the leftmost from there, and so on. It's not dissimilar to selecting for preferable traits across several breeding generations for crops and livestock, a notoriously slow and steady process.

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