Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Singlehandedly Shifting the Overton Window

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36. I don't know how old you are...

but maybe you don't remember what things were like a few decades ago. Maybe you don't remember when the big bills that were difficult to pass, got passed.

That may be the problem. For some voters, they simply don't know what they don't know. And they don't know history.

There are things still to be done. Some big things.

The way government works, though, is that this is not a dictatorship. We are seeing someone try to make it one. But one party pushes for things, and the opposition pushes back. Oftentimes, a compromise is reached. Otherwise, nothing at all is done. Instead of a leap forward, a step forward is taken.

In government, we have to deal with all the people. From the far right to the far left, and all those in between

We can get much done in the House, since we are in control. But unless the Republicans in the Senate approve it, nothing will become law. Even then, unless the President signs it, it won't become law.

This is what we have to work through to change laws or make new ones. Neither party can do that alone, if it's not in control of the two houses of Congress and the executive branch...and even then, has a super majority in the Senate. Even then, it can be challenged in the US Sct...where the opposition has placed a majority of conservative justices.

I think it's great that Cortez was elected for her district. Even if I didn't, it's none of my business, since that's not my state or district. I happen to think an influx of new, young people into the party is a good thing. But there's an oversensitivity to any comment that is anything but absolute adoration...even a "people aren't all good or bad" was objected to, as relates to Cortez.

But what does Cortez want to accomplish? An increase in taxes for the wealthy? Okay...where's her introduced bill for that? That's all I'm saying. She hasn't actually done anything yet. Does she want to do away w/the electoral college? Where's her bill for that? I'll tell you where that bill is...it was introduced on the first day of this House of Rep session by someone else who was working to get things done. By not a big name...Steve Cohen, TN Democrat. He's introduced that Resolution for three years in a row.

Or does she want to reduce the influence of big money in politics? Where's her bill for that? Too late...that was introduced by the little known John Sarbanes (Maryland Democratic rep) on the first day of this House of Rep session. He apparently had done actual work on legislation before the session began, and was ready to introduce his bill on the first day.

This is what it takes to effect change. Talk is good. It really is. It's important to speak truth. If you're silent when lies are told, then the public has only the lies to go by. But the only thing that changes anything in the legislature is legislation itself.