What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Victory Means
Democratic voters in New York’s 14th Congressional District delivered a shock to the political system Tuesday night, rejecting the fourth-ranking member of the party’s House leadership, Representative Joseph Crowley, in favor of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders campaign organizer who has called for abolishing the nation’s immigration and customs enforcement agency.
In doing so, voters delivered a message to Democrats and Republicans across the country, and perhaps in Albany: The liberal base is fired up, showing up at the polls, and may be ignored only at great political risk.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s victory is a vivid sign of the changing of the guard. In addition to more liberal immigration laws, she ran on a platform calling for Medicare for all and a federal jobs guarantee. She also talked about the housing crisis in New York City, an issue that resonates deeply with many voters here. Her district, which runs through Queens and the Bronx, is majority-minority, but its leadership has yet to reflect those changes. That’s something Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was able to capitalize on fluently, casting herself as part of a new generation of young, unabashedly liberal Democrats unwilling to wait their turn any longer.
Many told Ms. Ocasio-Cortez she was crazy for challenging Mr. Crowley, a 10-term incumbent who had ambitions to succeed the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. As chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party, Mr. Crowley, 56, was a kingmaker in New York City politics. At his annual holiday party, city officials were expected to perform karaoke, singing and dancing on the stage to a song of Mr. Crowley’s choosing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-democrat-crowley.html
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They're Team Players for the Good of our Country and our Planet.
We know why.
hahahahahahaha.
as sinister.
Is it frustrating not to get a response that bashes someone, no matter how hard you try?
And get called out on it?
Why do you find what I "don't say" so interesting?
Others seem to want to try to get an alertable reaction, and think they they are subtle about it.
Careful of that glass house.
To "advise" Red State Dems not to run a Democratic Socialist?..Not gonna happen in any case. 
Maybe you could send them your suggestions.
Pity she cannot be credited for her lifetime of accomplishments in human rights.
Pity some are so full of hatered for the woman who bravely stood on the world stage & challenged
others to recognize that women are equal.
Its really pathetic to see those who beat tgeir chests at the violation of equal rights while condemning this woman who gave her entire career to advocating for the same on a global scale.
Shame on those who cannot bring themselves to give a fking bit of honor to this one woman who clearly stood there for us all & faced the barrage of mysogynistic lies & slander from the grown men who for the sheer sport of it paraded their patriarchy as they mocked & humiliated this one woman & in that moment berrated us all.
Its a fking shame to see a women claim the words of HRC while her own endorsers smear this brave woman's worth like feed to starving rats.
And they call themselves Democrats?
It is in name only.
It is right to honor her name & hold her work for women's rights in a place among the greats of feminism.
Anything less dishonors the legacy of all those who did their part.
Do what you like, but I'll walk with the others who know the worth of this woman's lifelong mission, who vowed to break the barriers of equality by standing on the world stage in Bejing 1995 by speaking to women's rights as a human right.
Mock her, slander her name, wipe her off the pages of your own history book.
I will proudly stand with her before I ever embrace a pussy grabber or a Rape Fantasy writer.
I'll stand with the long line of women who made a difference on behalf of women & girls around the world.
http://womenyoushouldknow.net/inspired-illustration-feminism-work-pays-tribute-pioneers-moved-womens-history-forward/
And because she plagiarized Clinton's platform and stole a line from her speech, a line that wasn't even original to Clinton, but had been used many times before. It's not like Ms. Ocasio-Cortez actually accomplished anything deserving of respect.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210794235#post79
There's this thing called authenticity you might want to look into.
Which is to say...none
Never heard of him until last night. Talk about flying under the radar.
Where Democrats hold a safe, substantial majority in a congressional district, we can expect centrist candidates, especially bad ones, to be occasionally "upset."
Unlike what the national media is peddling, 16,000 voters in NYC do NOT represent a national trend. 
… tells me is that the people saying the Democratic Party is "old" are wrong. I've always said there are hundreds of great people! Also, the Bernie Sanders style can work without Bernie and within the Democratic Party! Big cheers to Cortez! I thought Crowley's concession was nice, too.
The old "no experience" so new people should be discouraged from running for office is one of my favorites. "No experience" has come up many times in my career. It's another way of saying you're too uppity and need to learn your place.
This condescending attitude is exactly what inspires many new voters so seek out change. If they were happy with what they had, they would be voting to reelect the incumbent.
Maybe someone will come along and say the voters are ungrateful? 
The best way to win millennial votes is to call them entitled, lazy, and worthless.
