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In reply to the discussion: AOC: Oh look, someone took a photo of what my life is like debating Republicans in committee each wk [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)In this era, we're either fighting the rise of RW kleptocracy and authoritarian control, or we're enabling it. There's no center position to take between government of, by and for the people or by ruling cabal. There's no separate farther left ground where political actions can magically not empower one side or the other.
And for most of us there's no place to go if we lose. A few will be able to prosper as members of the ruling side. But most of us would live on in a fallen democracy where all the goals Ocasio says she believes in were lost to us, for the foreseeable future and perhaps for the rest of her life. And where all those people currently in the streets would know to never challenge authority, never look police in the eyes.