Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Didn't Just Endorse Bernie Sanders

[Uncle Joe]

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Her perspective began to change while working as a volunteer organizer on Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, she explained: “It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves health care, housing, and a living wage.”

In the year since she took office, Ocasio-Cortez has fought hard for this vision—communicating it in plain language that can feel electrifying and refreshing coming from a member of Congress—and has become for others what she says Sanders was for her: a reminder that we deserve better than we often get.

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That a white woman in academia would find brown women prioritizing their politics over surface-level identifiers to be “fascinating” is a jarring reminder of how, despite endless news cycles dissecting Ocasio-Cortez’s every move and endless scrutiny of Ilhan Omar, many of the powerful people who claim “expertise” about our politics clearly aren’t listening to women like Ocasio-Cortez and Omar when they speak. Both are more than just members of the so-called Squad, more than right-wing nightmare fuel. Both have been aligned with Sanders about who they’re fighting for, but also how they’re fighting.

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This is what it means to build a movement: Not only rejecting the don’t go too far, don’t go too fast politics that have dominated Democratic thinking for decades, but also refusing to be so committed to past reforms to the point of inaction. It’s reminiscent of Joe Biden insisting that we improve upon Obamacare instead of opting for Medicare-for-All, as if seeking a better solution to the nation’s healthcare crisis is an insult to the good that Obamacare provided to those who could afford it. Similarly, Tanden acting as though the main takeaway of Ocasio-Cortez’s praise of Sanders’s decades-long commitment to single-payer should have been graciousness toward Clinton’s advocacy of CHIP—a program for uninsured children—plays directly into this problem. CHIP is a vital program—and there’s still so much more to be done. It’s time to move forward with a more ambitious vision of universal programs. To get caught up in incremental victories from the past is a form of inertia that this movement and that this nation’s most vulnerable frankly do not have time for.

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https://theslot.jezebel.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-didnt-just-endorse-bernie-sand-1839227443

This is a good read.

[Tiggeroshii]

1. Yes. AOC got me back on the Sanders bandwagon.

I love Sanders and Warren equally but AOC made a profound case for sticking with Sanders.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Welcome back Tiggeroshii.

[NurseJackie]

3. Remember that one time when he had a rally in North Charleston, SC?

I'm referring to his rally in North Charleston, SC not long ago. It had so LITTLE ethnic diversity that it looked like he could have been somewhere Vermont. In fact, based on the statistics, the demographics at that rally was even whiter than Vermont.

It's obvious that the AA and POC community are rejecting BS and the BS campaign. BS just doesn't connect with that community. The BS message just isn't resonating.

All I'm saying is, with such a humiliating rejection by the AA and POC communities, and without their vote, BS doesn't stand a chance. Everyone knows it. It doesn't matter to the AA and POC voters if he's endorsed by AOC.

Fact of the matter is, BS will not be our party's nominee. The AA/POC voters are not with him (as we've seen so clearly) and without that support, he may as well go home. There can be no denying that AA/POC voters will be very important in choosing our party's nominee.