Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is an American succdem politician who claims to be working class in background. The image is about her wearing a dress that had “tax the rich” written on it to the Met Gala, an event whose tickets allegedly cost $30,000 each.
I’ll never stop reminding people that she tried to redirect black rage during the 2020 civil rights protesting, away from the goals set out by protesters and towards voting for Biden.
Anyone who still supports her is either a scab, a white moderate, or both.
basically how it works is: a bunch of progressives want things and she says the democratic party will give us those things, if we vote for them. Then after getting the votes and they fail to do said things, they will blame republicans, and say better luck next time. This cycle has been perpetuated by many people like her, to create the illusion of change.
In this case she is saying, “were going to tax the rich”, but in reality nothing will be done to this effect.
but reading the news it seems like she’s actually doing stuff, the thing is the american political system is really bad and you’re raging against the only people who actually do something to change it
You fell into the trap of the establishment; the idea that the only people who can do anything in politics are politicians – with all the consequences that apply (careerism, opportunism…).
There are many organisations that do work on the ground and while their scope is more limited than governmental programs due to lack of funds and power, they are still doing something to change it. Our own activism as communists, no matter the country, is doing something to change the political system. That’s not to speak of other programs in the meantime, such as offering free health check ups to people who can’t afford health insurance, or soup kitchens for the homeless.
AOC passes for a slimy snake because she promises one thing, supposedly fights for it for some time, and then when it inevitably fails, she says “oh sorry better luck next time though!”. And we rarely hear about it again. While Trump was President, she decried the concentration camps at the border. Now that Biden, her party, is at the helm… they’re suddenly overflow facilities. She did criticize them again, but on Twitter. What is she doing on the ground?
The overarching problem we have to point out here is that it’s impossible to change the system from the inside. If that was the case, that State would be terrible at self-preservation, wouldn’t it? I’m unaware of any state in history that let itself be reformed fundamentally.
Yet AOC sells that illusion, that she’s the only chance the common people have at being heard, when in reality she has very little pull… and she remains a socdem. Whenever there is talk of abolishing capitalism, she’ll be first on the frontlines to stop anything from being done in that regard.
Her “tax the rich” dress sounds fake. The slogan is eat the rich, yet for an elected official, that is apparently too edgy to wear to an exclusive, bourgeois event. So it becomes whitewashed under capitalism, and just merely becomes “tax the rich”. The original message is: abolish the bourgeoisie, which supposes a revolution, which supposes communism. The watered down message is literally: more taxes, which supposes legislation, which supposes the fight is on the congress floor, where AOC has had very little success in her years there. But I’m sure the rich people at the Met gala were shaking in their boots when they saw her dress lol.
But it did achieve one thing. Just like the concentration camp remarks, it created controversy and put her in the media spotlight. The takeaway should be that her adventurist experiment did not yield any results (there is still no healthcare, there is still no real covid stimulus program, there is still unaffordable housing) and should be abandoned. But she entertains the hope that a better world is possible. In the meantime, while she keeps achieving nothing, she expects workers to keep toiling at their poverty wage, fuelled by the far possibility that maybe one day they’ll get something from AOC. What a great instrument of the democratic party she is, to be able to quell any and all movement to the revolutionary left with just one media controversy.
She used to parrot about children in cages and universal healthcare when Trump was in office. Now that democrats have majority she doesn’t do anything about those. Because of the dystopian reality we live in, this was proven by someone who analyzed her tweets over time lmao.
“The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”
AOC is good at getting media publicity but she has so far not achieved much for her soc-dem supporters. Not much more than the participants in the new Netflix reality series
She was a neoliberal who was able to pivot her public image to being a soc-dem, just in time when it became trendy, due to not having much on the public record at the time
Who is she? What is this?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is an American succdem politician who claims to be working class in background. The image is about her wearing a dress that had “tax the rich” written on it to the Met Gala, an event whose tickets allegedly cost $30,000 each.
Yeah, she’s a “pied piper” who pretends to be progressive to wrangle votes for the establishment.
I’ll never stop reminding people that she tried to redirect black rage during the 2020 civil rights protesting, away from the goals set out by protesters and towards voting for Biden.
Anyone who still supports her is either a scab, a white moderate, or both.
I’m not american so I’m not as in the loop but what has she done for the establishment?
basically how it works is: a bunch of progressives want things and she says the democratic party will give us those things, if we vote for them. Then after getting the votes and they fail to do said things, they will blame republicans, and say better luck next time. This cycle has been perpetuated by many people like her, to create the illusion of change.
In this case she is saying, “were going to tax the rich”, but in reality nothing will be done to this effect.
she’s not even saying “we are going to”, she’s saying “we should”. Which is much much less being done.
but reading the news it seems like she’s actually doing stuff, the thing is the american political system is really bad and you’re raging against the only people who actually do something to change it
You fell into the trap of the establishment; the idea that the only people who can do anything in politics are politicians – with all the consequences that apply (careerism, opportunism…).
There are many organisations that do work on the ground and while their scope is more limited than governmental programs due to lack of funds and power, they are still doing something to change it. Our own activism as communists, no matter the country, is doing something to change the political system. That’s not to speak of other programs in the meantime, such as offering free health check ups to people who can’t afford health insurance, or soup kitchens for the homeless.
AOC passes for a slimy snake because she promises one thing, supposedly fights for it for some time, and then when it inevitably fails, she says “oh sorry better luck next time though!”. And we rarely hear about it again. While Trump was President, she decried the concentration camps at the border. Now that Biden, her party, is at the helm… they’re suddenly overflow facilities. She did criticize them again, but on Twitter. What is she doing on the ground?
The overarching problem we have to point out here is that it’s impossible to change the system from the inside. If that was the case, that State would be terrible at self-preservation, wouldn’t it? I’m unaware of any state in history that let itself be reformed fundamentally.
Yet AOC sells that illusion, that she’s the only chance the common people have at being heard, when in reality she has very little pull… and she remains a socdem. Whenever there is talk of abolishing capitalism, she’ll be first on the frontlines to stop anything from being done in that regard.
Her “tax the rich” dress sounds fake. The slogan is eat the rich, yet for an elected official, that is apparently too edgy to wear to an exclusive, bourgeois event. So it becomes whitewashed under capitalism, and just merely becomes “tax the rich”. The original message is: abolish the bourgeoisie, which supposes a revolution, which supposes communism. The watered down message is literally: more taxes, which supposes legislation, which supposes the fight is on the congress floor, where AOC has had very little success in her years there. But I’m sure the rich people at the Met gala were shaking in their boots when they saw her dress lol.
But it did achieve one thing. Just like the concentration camp remarks, it created controversy and put her in the media spotlight. The takeaway should be that her adventurist experiment did not yield any results (there is still no healthcare, there is still no real covid stimulus program, there is still unaffordable housing) and should be abandoned. But she entertains the hope that a better world is possible. In the meantime, while she keeps achieving nothing, she expects workers to keep toiling at their poverty wage, fuelled by the far possibility that maybe one day they’ll get something from AOC. What a great instrument of the democratic party she is, to be able to quell any and all movement to the revolutionary left with just one media controversy.
you guys don’t deserve socialism tbh
She used to parrot about children in cages and universal healthcare when Trump was in office. Now that democrats have majority she doesn’t do anything about those. Because of the dystopian reality we live in, this was proven by someone who analyzed her tweets over time lmao.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/30/cort-m30.html
“The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”
AOC is good at getting media publicity but she has so far not achieved much for her soc-dem supporters. Not much more than the participants in the new Netflix reality series
She was a neoliberal who was able to pivot her public image to being a soc-dem, just in time when it became trendy, due to not having much on the public record at the time
Is that hypocritical though? You can be rich and still advocate taxing the rich.
People “can” be any number of things. I would rather concern myself with what they are in reality.
what is she really?
careerist and opportunist
Really? I’ve only heard good things about her on the internet. Seems to believe in good social things, and campaign and vote for them too.
How can you tell what she’s really like, that’s not obvious to someone on a different continent?
The internet is not a monolith. Let me turn this around. Can you give me tangible evidence of the good that she has done?
This isn’t a burden-of-proof issue. I’ve already said I don’t know much about it. I’m asking your opinion.
But it’s only an internet forum. You don’t have to give any answer. I was just curious.