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In reply to the discussion: AOC: Why do we listen to people who lost elections as if they are experts in winning elections? [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Seriously? AOC's experience as a Bartender, degree at BU, being a board member of DSA and with her mother's health care issues are farther in the past than Senator McCaskill's Senate career, but are considered relevant to her current insights, yes? How long ago was Bernie involved in SNCC and MLK's March on Washington? Is that all irrelevant as well because it didn't happen in 2020?
She has far, far more experience with getting elected in a red state, and therefore firsthand knowledge about elections than AOC has. Granted, AOC has more experience in her short career with endorsing candidates that don't win elections, so I'll give you that...
BTW - the First Amendment is about government suppression of speech.
No one's First Amendment rights - not yours, not AOC's are at issue here. If someone can't handle a politician that they admire being
criticized, or handle the heat from their own public statement, that's a emotional issue, not a "free speech" issue.
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