AOC: "We don't have a left party in US - The Democratic Party is not a left party"

[RealityChik]

47. I'm a bleeding heart liberal progressive but...

...altho I agree with most of her platform and I love her spunk, her methodology for achieving her goals is short-sighted and divisive.

I too hate that the corporate DCCC will spend boatloads of cash on sabotaging the campaigns of progressives who run against their underwhelming corporate "Yes-men" candidates. Or support weak incumbent candidates at risk against republic candidates.

But what I EQUALLY hate is that she leads a group of progressives hell-bent on defeating democrats that aren't as progressive as they are. Case in point is the district I recently moved to in retirement. The demographic is about 55% democrat, 45% republican. With a split like that, progressives can't just cram their policies down the throats of a sizable conservative constituency!

Our congressman, who is progressive in most areas, is super smart, an economist by profession, (Princeton grad), PhD from Oxford in London, is well-liked by both libs and repubs, balances the needs of ALL constituents and is very active in the community.

But the progressives see him a corporate shill who sometimes hangs with Chambers of Commerce (the district needs business to create jobs and needs banks to loan money to home builders and small businesses!).

The weak progressive they want to primary Kilmer with, has a platform that reads like a wishlist for Santa, contains not a word about she would finance any of it, much less how she would convince the 45% of conservative demographic that doesn't agree with her, that her policies are what's best for them. Prior to Derek Kilmer, our district has a long history of being red.

What extreme progressives don't seem to understand is that they have to represent ALL your constituents, not just the ones who agree with you. Forcing progressive policy on them is not the way to win votes. Progressives like AOC, who are aligned with a scorched earth, my-way-or-the-highway style of governing are not the way to unite polar opposite beliefs in this country. Moreover, that's not what freedom for all is about.