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In reply to the discussion: What is your opinion of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,168 posts)They LOOOOOOVE reps like AOC that they can invite to come on their shows as much as they possibly can. And AOC, being a politician, and a young energetic new politician, you can't blame her for accepting all the appearances and coverage.
They like to create the horserace. They like pitting extremes against each other. They want to create an image, a personality, and a mission statement for her.....without her help thank you very much. She would get in the way. Her endorsement of Pelosi was something they were probably disappointed in because it didn't fit their narrative and molding of her as the radical lefist face of the Democratic party.
And one of the problems with these cartoon caricature molds that the MSM news wants to create to make their jobs easier, is destructive to having real dialogue. That it becomes not about the actual ideas, platforms, but personalities. Look what they did with Sanders. His policies are just normal policy in most other democracies around the world...universal healthcare, maternal leave, livable minimum wages, even when a Conservative party is in charge. But he is now seen as a radical leftist to even a few Democrats.
I fear that overexposure and the systematic 'creating' of the news by news networks we see now, she is in danger of becoming a caricature of herself, to be used as a prop in a narrative. And if that happens, it is very difficult to re-brand yourself, to erase the story that the MSM have deliberately and carefully crafted you into for the public to see.