Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 35-year-old veteran lawmaker, spoke to NPR about her party’s path forward.
She predicts Republicans will face backlash over Medicaid cuts and federal worker firings.
Despite some Democrats suggesting a new immigration approach post-election, she maintains support for a path to citizenship and recently held a know-your-rights seminar that drew threats of investigation from Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.
AOC told NPR “everything feels increasingly like a scam” for ordinary Americans while government serves the wealthy well.
Unlike Trump, she opposes drastically cutting government agencies but questions programs like Medicare Advantage.
It is a scam. Neo liberals control the democratic party and they serve the elite. They were never going to save us.
We need a true populist movement. The parties haven’t served us my entire life.
Some would say, “we need to seize the means of production,” even.
Grab 'em by the means of production
socialism yes. communism no. Communists are just as corrupt as the capitalists. We arent limited to just capitalism or communism, why pick from failed strategies?
Communism is a stateless, classless society, and more like a utopian end-goal to strive for. But, yeah, parties that label themselves communist tend to be of the authoritarian type. Failure of certain strategies and implementations doesn’t mean an entire ideology is bad. Democracy failed with Rome, and wasn’t implemented on a large scale again for ~1800 years; and I think most people consider democracy a pretty good system now.
I’m 40 years old and I have never felt represented by my government.
A 40 year old would have been born in 1985. No president has been born after 1961. If you exclude Obama, no president has been born after 1945.
What do you mean? Musk was born in '71.
Man, that’s bleak.
55 here and it’s been the same
You change the parties the way the Tea Party and Maga changed the Republicans. You start a faction and then work on taking over the existing party.
State level electoral reform will allow 3rd parties to participate in elections without a spoiler effect. We don’t need to wait a decade for the old shits in the DNC to die of natural causes. It is possible, Alaska already has passed electoral reform. We can do this before the mid terms.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
The tea party changed republicans by being belligerent assholes that refused to play along with old GOP leadership. I’m not sure that the left in the US has it in them to do that to the DNC.
Remember: If it feels like a scam, it is.
Maybe this is a hot take, but why don’t we just make all the law abiding undocumented immigrants legal and just move the fuck on? We need a party that will focus on healthcare and education the most as those two things will create a better society in the long run. Having these other individuals able to fully participate in society could be helpful in many ways as well.
bEcAuSe ThAt WoUlD bE uNfAiR tO tHoSe WhO dId It ThE “rIgHt” WaY
Which is, of course, a completely bullshit argument. But it nonetheless gets trotted out any time there’s a proposal to make something easier for anyone middle class or below.
Yeah, I love how that argument completely ignores all the other advantages that come along with ‘doing it the right way’
It’s like being on a cruise ship in the ocean that rescues some sailors in distress, and then someone gets pissed because the rescued people didn’t buy a ticket like everyone else.
One of the biggest problems in America is people thinking that suffering is a necessary part of human existence and people having what you have without suffering is an injustice, unless they’re rich.
Well, according to Trump, the way they did it isn’t ‘the right way’ either. Otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to block birthright citizenship.
But hey, expecting a Conservative to wrap their head around an abstract concept is… well, let’s just say these are people who need pictures.
why?
racism
That’s what Regan and HW Bush did. But they’re all against it now.
Remember when fucking Reagan gave amnesty to a bunch of people? Ronald Reagan was the biblical devil, and trump is still worse.
If they pay taxes and don’t do crime I don’t really care who they are or where they are from.
Without doing any googling to double check, I’m almost certain that I’ve heard that was already kinda sorta tried. Ofc, it didn’t fix the problem because the exploitive system that creates the conditions for illegal immigration remained, and the government has only made it worse since then. Imo, the only true fix that doesn’t involve dumb fucking bullshit is massively loosening our immigration constraints and allowing people to live here as long as they don’t start shit.
To be clear, I’m against immigration controls period, but this is me trying to be practical.
Pathway to citizen hasn’t been tried because it hasn’t been able to get the necessary coalition to pass.
Yeah I’ve been saying this for a few months now, we are officially in “The Age of the Grifter.” Honestly it makes me a little sick this is what we’ve been reduced to.
Everything’s been a scam for a while especially this bullshit society. Capitalism inherently encourages and drives everything towards scamming people gotta “make profit” and no one dare dictate what’s egregious or not because “who are you to say” so there is just no limit to the greed whatsoever. Cutting corners/costs can only go so far until the planes start falling out of the sky or however that saying goes. We’re past the terminal end stages of capitalism and they have no remedy for it and we’re seeing the cancer mutate in to something else now.
Our gov is taking our tax money and not showing us what they are doing with it. If its not a scam, show us where the money is going.
Our gov is showing us what they do with the tax money. It is, in fact, all public information you can get with a couple seconds of digging (and has been that way for a LONG time).
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
The only real black boxes of the government are military and espionage spending. Everything else is out in the open.
Does this include all the money that the government is giving to Elon Musk??
Yes. Our government is actually really transparent. Granted, a lot of this wasn’t apparent until DOGE claimed to bring transparency, and then everything they did was shown to be redundant or worse with existing systems.
That military black box is massive, and the pentagon hasn’t successfully completed one of its past seven audits. This is a prime area for reform and cost cutting, and yet house repugs just voted to add another 100 billion to its budget.
AOC is correct, it’s a grift, and the billionaires and corporations are coming for what little we have left.
For quick context for why that is. If memory serves right they at least used to slash the budgets of units who didn’t use said budget up completely. As you can imagine that results in a shit tonne of wasteful spending for literally no reason, just corpo run it like a shitty business crap
Even military isn’t that opaque. The published numbers are HUGE.
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This is a dumb take. It’s publicly available information
No, I think the dumb thing to do would be to assume that the person who was convicted of 30+ felonies concerning a legal campaign financing is being fully transparent about his intentions and the amount of money he shifted over to the worlds, greatest billionaire(Musk). Also don’t forget that Donald Trump was convicted of a charity scandal and now he can’t run a charity inside the state of New York without court ordered supervision.
Those government reports should be 100% truthful but if you’re willing to believe that they are under Donald Trump, then I have a bridge to sell you .
Just not the uninformed shoddy lie filled way DOGE are.
It feels like it’s a swing off the cancel movement and now everyone can just lie without any consequences.
Guys and gals, I have a solution, it involves a guillotine and…
You can chop heads forever and for all time but it will never decrease the number of scams and scammers. Regulations are the only solution.
Every time I read Tom Homan, I think of that cat walking around meme.
I read this as Alexandra Daddario and was really confused.
All she’d need to do to get people to listen to her is stare deeply into their eyes.
She also feels like a scam to me for using x and not having a mastodon account
Yeah why is this politician, who clearly finds it important to communicate her messages as widely and effectively as possible, using a massive social media platform which many American voters and basically all, if not all media organizations regularly use to get their information, instead of using some nobody social media platform that almost nobody cares about?!? The only conclusion is she must be a grifter!!!
Why yes I am incapable of thinking about a single subject for more than 5 seconds, why do you ask?
Why is she not even bothering creating a mastodon account?
Because she could probably yell her political messages out of her window and reach more people?
Scammers goal is also to reach more people. Masodon is free and the best alternative to X, there aren’t many excuses not to have an account
Yeah and it’s also a politician’s goal. Do you actually think everyone who wants to reach a lot of people is a scammer? Like there’s no legitimate reason to want to reach as many people as possible? Did your parents drop on your head when you were young?
Do you actually think everyone who wants to reach a lot of people is a scammer?
Someone with millions of follower already on meta and x who refuse to even create a mastodon account to me sound yet another corrupted politician or a scam
Everything is a scam?
Kind of like AOC voting to protect the rail corporation from a union strike, then presenting herself as a champion of the working class.
