Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "AOC Steps Up To Forefront as Old Democratic Leadership Crumbles" video.

  1.  @tomreingold4024  Whenever polling agencies test the voters for policy ideas, it’s always the same result. People always want things like increasing the minimum wage, a proper national health system, getting rid of Citizens United, getting rid of things like the government treating corporations as people and money as freedom of speech, etc.. And at every election, the DNC pushes a notionally moderate candidate who doesn’t support these things because the party doesn’t want to frighten the horses. AOC and the other progressives of the party are the only ones who represent those policies. What the DNC doesn’t understand - because they are lost in the time vault of the late 20th century - is that nobody is going to vote conservative lite when they can go the full retard. I watch Jasmine Crockett giving an address the other day, flanked by senior Democrats. They were all older men with grey hair and wearing the same suits and tie. They looked more bewildered than anything else. I think they are so inculcated in the ways of government that they don’t really know what’s going on. It’s time some of those people moved on. Dear old Steny Hoyer, whom everyone likes, is 85. He’s rendered great service but it’s time to let someone in who is more representative of the electorate. Chuck Schumer (74) and Elizabeth Warren (75) need to move into advisory roles. Bring Bernie back into the fold in an advisory role. Jamie Raskin is still good and has a few years left. Chris Murphy is 51 and still has 10-15 years in front of him. But the party has to move on from the fear of the public’s attitude so democratic socialism, which is what people like AOC represent. The Republicans are going to call them socialists anyway so own it! When someone calls you a leftist (a new word the right had to invent when ‘lefty’ didn’t cut it anymore), do you cower in embarrassment because you’ve been told all your life that socialism is wrong? Or do you say something like ‘Took you a while to figure that out’? Own it. Be a damn leftist and wear it on your chest where everyone can see it. The Democrats have to stand for something other than surrender. Those who are prepared to stand up and be counted are the future and many of them are women. The Squad needs to be expanded dramatically and be available every day to be on the attack. The Democrats have to actually stand for something instead of looking down at their shoes when the right goes on the attack. If they don’t they risk irrelevance. It’s good to see AOC actually putting it out there that someone like Elise Stefanik can be beaten and building a strategy. Someone has to try. That’s leadership and it’s been sorely lacking.
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