Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came out in support of President Joe Biden amid growing calls in the Democratic Party for Biden to drop out of the 2024 race.
She knows she has little to gain personally from calling for Biden to drop out and potentially has a lot to gain if she sides with him and he ends up winning. She’s a savvy political operator and deeply cynical.
I mean she isn’t my representative so there isn’t really a taking it or settling at work here. I’m trying to oust my own zionist rep where there’s actually a shot.
I just get that she’s up shit creek so I don’t expect her to have a paddle.
Honestly I am more frustrated with the failure to leverage her support. The whole ‘Squad’ and Justice Democrats as a whole should be out laying out leverage to back Biden instead of the ‘Welp, he’s the nominee!’ nonsense. If she isn’t getting any support then I got some criticisms for more than just AOC here.
It’s definitely the right move for her at this point. If Biden steps aside (or dies) before the election, the Democrats aren’t going to nominate someone who didn’t back Biden. Publicly backing lets her stay on the team, and maybe one day have a shot at the Presidency herself (assuming we get more than four more years before fascism wins).
She knows she has little to gain personally from calling for Biden to drop out and potentially has a lot to gain if she sides with him and he ends up winning. She’s a savvy political operator and deeply cynical.
She’s savvy, but she’s one of the least cynical of the bunch.
She saw how they stitched up Jamal Bowman and chose to protect her job. It’s pretty damn cynical.
She’s playing the cynical game of the Democratic party. I don’t know if it will pay off.
But fuck she is WAY better than my gerrymandered representative who is a full corporate military machine.
So I don’t exactly have a better representative to even reference let alone represent me. So I’ll take that cynicism until I can get that changed.
You get the cynicism because you keep taking it, it really can’t change as long as you’re willing to settle.
Catch 22
I mean she isn’t my representative so there isn’t really a taking it or settling at work here. I’m trying to oust my own zionist rep where there’s actually a shot.
I just get that she’s up shit creek so I don’t expect her to have a paddle.
Honestly I am more frustrated with the failure to leverage her support. The whole ‘Squad’ and Justice Democrats as a whole should be out laying out leverage to back Biden instead of the ‘Welp, he’s the nominee!’ nonsense. If she isn’t getting any support then I got some criticisms for more than just AOC here.
It’s definitely the right move for her at this point. If Biden steps aside (or dies) before the election, the Democrats aren’t going to nominate someone who didn’t back Biden. Publicly backing lets her stay on the team, and maybe one day have a shot at the Presidency herself (assuming we get more than four more years before fascism wins).
It’s the right move for her career, anyway.