Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines for calling perennial Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein “predatory” and “not serious.” AOC is right.
Giving voters more choices is a good thing for democracy. But third-party politics isn’t performance art. It’s hard work — which Stein is not doing. As AOC observed: “[When] all you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you’re just showing up once every four years to do that, you’re not serious.”
To be clear: AOC was not critiquing third parties as a whole, or the idea that we need more choices in our democracy. In fact, AOC specifically cited the Working Families Party as an example of an effective third party. The organization I lead, MoveOn, supports their 365-day-a-year efforts to build power for a pro-voter, multi-party system. And I understand third parties’ power to activate voters hungry for alternatives: I myself volunteered for Ralph Nader in 2000, and that experience helped shape my lifelong commitment to people-first politics.
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AOC is not serious. She went to the border to see the conditions under trump and cry on camera but never went back to see if conditions were still bad under biden. She doesn’t care about border conditions it was just a partisan stunt.
She’s clearly running defense for kamala by ridiculously claiming that kamala is “working tirelessly” for a ceasefire in gaza.
Jill Stein and the green party do not “just show up” every 4 years, they are always putting in the work but they only get media attention once every 4 years because there’s a presidential election.
Well yeah. The border problem isn’t really her first issue. She you know represents New York…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policy_of_the_United_States
It was a big issue for her when trump was in office but once biden got in there she dropped it immediately
https://lemmy.world/comment/12392585
Did you miss the shitting and screaming New York did over not wanting migrants earlier this year?
Source?
(all of these are dated post April 2021)
https://people.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-border-conditions-barbaric-and-wrong/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-biden-border-wall-construction-b2425586.html
https://www.newsweek.com/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-warning-joe-biden-border-1872427
https://www.thecut.com/2021/04/aoc-decries-horrifying-conditions-at-the-border.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-on-the-migrant-crisis-aid-to-israel-and-more-on-the-point-with-marcia-kramer/
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-slams-joe-biden-cruel-decision-border-wall-1832543
https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ocasio-cortez-urges-biden-administration-reverse-decision-border-wall
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