redstatebluegirl (4,731 posts)
Ocasio Cortez is going to be a problem for our party just watch.
Now she is breaking with New York leaders on the Amazon headquarters. She is itching for a fight and will make us look like morons. This is a two year win people, we did not win the Senate, we did not win the White House. She could be a lightening rod for the right, someone needs to take her aside and tell her to temper herself. Of course Bernie won't but someone in the Democratic Party should.
Response to redstatebluegirl (Original post)Tue Nov 13, 2018, 04:50 PM
Cuthbert Allgood (1,351 posts)
86. She is "our party"
Just in case you forgot.
Gothmog (60,588 posts)
90. I have never been impressed with AOC
melman (3,491 posts)
94. She is the best
Love her.
SaschaHM (2,637 posts)
147. It's about damn time someone breaks with New York's leaders.
I'm not the biggest AOC fan, but breaking from De Blasio/Cuomo is never going to be a black mark in my book, even if I supported both in their primaries/generals.
AoC is not the first Democrat to refuse to tow the party line and she won't be the last. If anything, maybe we should start looking at the line that we tow if attacking the Amazon decision is a bridge to far. Hell, it's not even a politically convenient one given that they located to practically solid blue states. That doesn't help us gain ground anywhere else.
Also, you know who else is going to be a lightning rod for the next two years? Pelosi, Schumer, and every other Democrat that dares speak up. **** the right.
Gothmog (60,588 posts) Tue Nov 13, 2018, 05:00 PM
90. I have never been impressed with AOC
Ocasio Cortez is going to be a problem for our party just watch.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211423649
I see that DUmmies do not like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It has been rather lackluster.
The democrats are having a "Dr. Frankenstein" moment...
They've created a monster and don't know how to control it...
One of my favorite stories of all time is Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus'. There are so many layers to that story, so many lessons about knowing one's limits, morality, triumph and tragedy, horror... Mrs Shelley was an absolute genius! I also love the film adaptations of her book. Not the hokey series BS, the actual story from her book. My favorite scene, though, is when Victor Frankenstein recoils in horror at what he has created, followed shortly thereafter of his realization that the blasphemy he brought into the world (by trying to play God) has grown into a malignancy he can neither control nor kill. It's a brilliant metaphor about narcissistic arrogance and its inevitable outcome.
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You vermin have cultivated this class of savages for many years for nothing more than having a self replicating voting bloc to give you more power. You have used them as a force multiplier to spread fear and sow discontent among your fellow citizens in your quest to suppress those who don't "think" like you.
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So, I'll leave you for now with... the words of W. B. Yeats:Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?:ownit: