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In reply to the discussion: AOC and other new House progressives are tweeting their dissatisfaction with orientation at Harvard [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)all right. They took a blow in November, but they have every intention of taking power in 2020. If they do, and with the help of SCOTUS, they'll finish off not just national healthcare, the gutting of Medicare and dismantling everything they can, but they'll make rebuilding them unconstitutional. And as we see, they'll also turn this into a sham democracy with Georgia-style elections minus the noise.
They've become extremists, but national backlash after the fact could still mean at least several years before it set in enough to get them out of congress and the most extreme obstructionists out of the courts; at least a decade of privation, living in boxes for many, dying without healthcare; and a generation rebuilding -- assuming that was even possible after continued transfer of national wealth to the 0.01%, further decay of infrastructure that serves us, including dismantling of public schools and selling off of federal lands, extreme expenses from climate change, and the projected shrinkage (instead of growth) of our national GDP from climate change.
We are the ones who have to make sure it can't come to that.