Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House ...

Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    31·
    11 days ago

    I see people always hope for a Presidential role for her, but I honestly want her and people like her in these kinds of places instead. Far more power to change things for a longer time.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
      25·
      11 days ago

      Given the recent election, I think Democrats needs extroverts, populists (true ones like AOC or Bernie, not fake ones like trump, that only promise but deliver for himself). It looks like people no longer want an establishment.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    172·
    11 days ago

    in the coming years

    It’s adorable she thinks the government apparatus will still exist after the fascist takeover.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      31·
      11 days ago

      Maybe not, but wouldn’t it be worse to not try? I’m as pessimistic as they come but I don’t think giving up is an option either.

      • millifoo@lemmings.world
        7·
        11 days ago

        I 100% agree. It’ll suck to be her, but we need her to ask the questions and take notes. There will be more elections, and if/when Dems are back in power, it sure would be nice to have a record of the immoral, unethical, and illegal shit that the GOP did while in power.

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        25·
        11 days ago

        I don’t tend to temper my online pessimism, if it’s enough to discourage anyone it was going to happen with or without me.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 days ago

      It actually depends on us. If we accept it in advance it will indeed be over.

      The book titled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century by Prof. Snyder is a must read for today’s times.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          16·
          11 days ago

          Not denying, fighting against the reality. I dare say you haven’t seen any videos of her in committees asking the pointed questions that are normally glossed over. You can certainly argue about effectiveness, but if no one tries to make a difference, it will absolutely go the direction it’s going.

        • millifoo@lemmings.world
          13·
          11 days ago

          What do you suggest our represenatives do as an alternative? Give up? Say and do nothing for 4 years?

          As painful and exasperating of a job it’s going to be, we still need idealists like AOC to go and do their best, even while in the minority.

        • 4am@lemm.ee
          92·
          11 days ago

          Your right! Give up, try nothing.

          Jill Stein voter, perhaps?

    • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
      92·
      11 days ago

      It does mess up their storytelling time during trumped up investigations that rely on unhinged witnesses and made up evidence. Plus it wastes more of their time so they can’t do awful things quickly, always a good thing. Having to tolerate a non-submissive woman (moreso if she isn’t lily white) speaking and existing in their spaces as an equal annoys misogynists too.

    • veroxii@aussie.zone
      7·
      11 days ago

      You need someone who will at least try to get the truth in the public record. In case there ever is a reckoning one day.