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In reply to the discussion: AOC: We don't have to choose between these things! We can do better and win! [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)class warfare and replacing capitalism with socialism. Progressivism is not socialism, and restoring national wellbeing and security through progressive government is not their goal.
Happy people don't burn down their own nation.
Which is why "Progressive" Ocasio is so busily attacking the liberal progressive Democratic party. Our success is very bad news for their revolution. That Trump could be followed not by revolution but by good, stabilizing, progressive government threatens death to their dreams, and another 30 years -- at least -- of waiting in obscurity for another opportunity.
Btw, if Ocasio represents a significant part of our party, how come Democratic voters sent only 4 Progressives (one of them has since distanced) to our overwhelmingly liberal progressive house Democratic caucus -- 4 out of 235 members?
She is talented, yes, the way Bernie Sanders and Sarah Palin are talented. But not representative. Capital-P Progressive candidates trying to draw Democratic voters with grievance politics and outrageous lies about who Democrats are were overwhelmingly rejected by our voters in 2016, 2018, and 2020 in favor of Democrats whose goals are their own.