Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused establishment Democrats of treating her “like shit” as progressive activists urged her to run for president in 2028.
In a 100-minute long video posted on Instagram, the 37-year-old congresswoman from New York said that the party had a “remarkable opportunity” to pass left-wing policies after the midterm elections. She also accused the party’s leadership of starving funds from left-wing candidates during the campaign.
“There’s this huge conversation about candidates that were under invested in,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She cited Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who came within 240,000 votes of flipping Florida from red to blue, but ultimately lost to the Republican candidate Ashley Moody.
“If Angie Nixon had just had a little bit of that support, that outcome could have changed. But that money has to come from somewhere and it comes from these people,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the party’s Senate leadership.
Reflecting on the period after she was first elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez accused senior Democrats of being “horrifically cruel” to her. “I mean I was treated like shit,” she said. “Everybody took a swing at me.”
The Bronx congresswoman is seen as the likeliest progressive candidate to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
In a previous post about AOC candidacy, I said that won’t happen because :
- woman
- woman of color
- US is a deeply racist country
- she’s a woman of color
Some people told that I’m a doomer. I stand by what I said.
In 2016, Bernie was looking great…until the DNC happened, he sported a black eye, and then endorsed Hillary for some unknown reason. The establishment Dems are just as corrupt as the Repubs. The only hope for America is in the new blood…because the milk’s gone bad.
Trump didn’t win in 2016…Hillary (and DWS) LOST.
AOC should take the House Speaker from Jeffries. It’s where she’s needed most.
I’ll vote for AOC in 2028.
I’m doing it because I believe in her and her policies for improving the material conditions of the working class in USA.
If you can’t bring yourself to vote for her, consider voting AGAINST all of the other stuck up asshats in Congress who think they deserve to have political power.
I really don’t want her to run for president yet. I’d rather see her replace schumer first. She is my congresswoman too and am very happy with her. I just fear she might not win presidency yet. Our district is very left wing, so I need to know she can win in a place like New York State that is kind of a microcosm of the whole country
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The push is not over, there will still be a huge necessity to vote in 2028. We cannot let our guard down, and always remember the momentum we brought into this midterm, anything is possible.
“PrOgResSiVe AcTiViStS”
You mean to say the people who are trying to keep democracy from falling? Or the ones who are trying to keep a roof over their head and food on the table?
Stfu already.
She 100% has my vote.
I love her, but Congress needs to change its makeup first to be all progressive and pass progressive legislations that will turn successful before she has any chance of presidency.
As of right now if she would run I expect she would lose. I think people want to give progressives a chance but likely would still be hesitant until progressives prove themselves.
I’ve literally heard these sentiments my entire life, and progressives keep proving it wrong every time.
The latest was my dad saying, “well of course a progressive could win in New York, but not anywhere else in the country.”
I think the nation has shown multiple times in the past decade that what we really don’t want is another fucking status quo democrat. The country is desperate for change, and if the democrats and people with your sentiment would take their foot off progressives’ necks and stand behind us instead, progressives could actually make this country great (for the first time, btw).
This is exactly why Hillary lost, FWIW. People were tired of establishment dems being in control. They wanted a shakeup. And in response to that, Dems ran the very personification of the establishment. Hillary was the face of everything that people hated about democrats.
As far as the establishment saw it, she had done her time as a good little soldier, paid her dues promptly, sang the party’s songs, danced the party’s dances, and was “owed” the chance at a presidency because of that. Not because she was the best candidate for the people, but because she was the one who best embodied the establishment that Dems wanted to uphold.
Instead, people voted for the candidate who promised exactly what people wanted: A shakeup. Trump wasn’t a good candidate during his first campaign, but he did promise an end to the old status quo. And to a lot of voters, that was the only thing that mattered.
A bit more context on Clinton: The DNC was pretty much broke and their finances were a mess. Clinton came in and cleaned house and raised a bunch of money and basically saved the DNC from total insolvency. In return for saving their asses, her campaign was given a lot of control over the DNC. She had control of finances and hiring and firing.
How did the DNC get in such bad financial shape in the 1st place? Was it just incompetance or was there also fraud? If you’re a high level DNC leader, do you owe Clinton for saving your job or do you owe her for preventing a scandal that could land you in jail?
All this to say, from the outside it looks like “she put in her time, it’s her turn” but from the inside it’s more “we’ve totally fucked up and if we don’t let her take the wheel we will be jobless, disgraced and possibly sued or jailed”
That Clinton fundraising didn’t save the DNC, it destroyed its soul.
Do you think those millions of dollars of corporate cash came without strings? Of course not. After accepting this money, the DNC was all-in on support for the military industrial complex, wall street, health insurers, etc.
This had horrible effects on DNC policy in the following years- supporting the forever wars, abandoning the public option, bailing out wall street while abandoning working people… So many horrible things were set in motion by this Clinton corruption.
Before the Clinton sellout we had one corporate party and one moderate party. After the sellout we only have 2 corporate parties to choose from.
Do you think those millions of dollars of corporate cash came without strings?
No. I do not. And I never said otherwise.
I was not in any way saying that this was a good thing.
Before the Clinton sellout we had one corporate party and one moderate party. After the sellout we only have 2 corporate parties to choose from.
Are you talking about Bill? Cuz the DNC has been all about the donors for a long time. Hillary definitely made it worse (as did citizens united) but they’ve been pretty mid (at best) almost my whole life.
Citizens united was the death of this country
And Hawaii and Montana have shown us how to kill it. If you aren’t in a shit hole red state, you should get busy working on that.
Hillary won the popular vote.
The electoral college screwed you over
Because she campaigned heavily in blue states and neglected the states she actually needed to win. While I’m not a fan of the electoral college, in this case Hillary was intentionally playing the wrong game.
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You expect she would lose because you’re not recognizing the material conditions of the moment.
People want change. People demand change. A progressive president and a supermajority has the potential to do so much good.
And if it doesn’t, the people’s contradictions will get worse and worse to the point they’ll take matters into their own hands.
I’d expect better from my instance. But then again, people of my instance are all anarchists who want to throw away all governments without considering how this would affect normal, working class people. Y’all have no solution for improving people’s lives.
Be socialist instead
Bruh, Texas just turned blue. Anything is possible rn.
If you look at the answers to surveys people were providing during voting it looks like top issues were affordability and corruption/concerns about democracy.
Progressives are given a chance and need to deliver on it otherwise they will be treated like trump (remember he promised a lot of that too)
The 2028 might not get the same boost, although I hope it will.
Mamdani has delivered undeniable results, El-Sayed pulled off the impossible and his ideas make sense, not in a Trump way, in a common sense way. Many of these candidates were outspent 20 to one or more and they won, previously thought so unlikely as to be impossible. Bernie and AOC’s rallies were packed in every city, compared to Trump having to pay what little people he had at his rallies. The country is ready and any more arguments to the contrary are not in good faith imo.
1/3rd of Democratic voters this election self-identified as democratic socialists. The days when progressive politics were a minor phenomenon are over. Besides, any successful movement needs to keep making swipes at power even if it doesn’t succeed; these moves are part of what legitimizes it and increases its influence.
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They have.
The old guard has helped republicans turn this country into a facist shit hole.
Yes. They’re all ratchet democrats who are in it only for the corporate dollars.
Honestly you are being too generous. They want the oligarchy to rule this country, they just disagree with Republicans on how to accomplish that.
They think they should throw some crumbs to working people and pay lip service to democracy so the people don’t oppose the. Too much.
It’s “fascist”, and Republicans did that just fine on their own.
Yeah and 75 house Democrats thanked them for it.
Well that is very very fucked up.
Such is the state of a two party state. No room for distinction. You can be black or you can be white. Ain’t that some shit.
Thanks for the spelling correction sweet summer child.
The reddification is complete.
You remind me of Reddit.
The democrats poured all that money into mississippi, which is looking to flip blue. It was either florida or mississippi. The fact that florida was so close is a good thing. I think mississippi is a larger win.
I’m going to get shit for this opinion, but I think she should run as vice president.
The reason being, a huge part of why Trump won both his elections was that his opponent was a woman - I know a lot of my progressives out there don’t want to believe this, but misogyny is still a major problem in this country, even among progressives and leftists. There are too many people out there who may otherwise have decent politics but will refuse to vote for a woman, that’s a fact we need to acknowledge. Simply put I want a democrat to actually win in 2028 and she as the forerunner reduces those chances.However if she’s vice president that brings out the progressive democrats to the polls while also avoiding this pitfall. At some point in the near future I hope our country is ready to accept leadership from a woman, but our country is still too screwed up for that today.
I’m in Australia thinking that the only people the old Baby boomers and Gen X Democrats aren’t cruel to is Republicans and Israel.
But that pretty much links up with my workplace (minus the Israel).
Old people Haaate everyone under the age of 30… 40… 50 I realised today that I’m a year older than AOC… I don’t remember a time where my generation wasn’t hated by older generations…
Sorry let’s be fair my Nana loved me immensely and she thought we were all great but she was part of the great generation (the people who gave birth to baby boomers).
I’ve got more to say but what I have to say about AI, tech and old people could fill a book almost as long as the book I could write about cyclists and their hypocrisy (FYI I’m always careful of cyclists when I’m driving. Just wish they could be as careful of children playing in a park… But cyclists don’t care about people slower than them… I need to write a book)
I am so polite on my bike when in the sidewalk. Just today, waited first for a guy to walk by slowly, and went onto the grass (thankfully it was the part of my route with a grass strip between road and sidewalk) around another.
It’s my understanding that the sidewalk is for pedestrians and I am supposed to ride in the road, but of course the road is dangerous. We are allowed the sidewalk with a speed limit of 10mph. So I yield always to anyone on foot.
And you HAVE to be careful. Monday night coming home in the dark there was someone sleeping on the sidewalk! If I had been going fast I’d have run them right over.
Maybe Australia needs the sidewalk speed limit? Or if your motorists aren’t so aggressive, ban the bikes from the sidewalk?
Yeah, but we’ll be the same. If some broccoli-haired youth in trousers that are too short turns up at my door canvassing for votes, his policies had better be extraordinarily good to get over my overwhelming first impression of “this guy looks like a twat”.
The absolute WORST managers/bosses I’ve ever had were Baby Boomers. Outside of work most don’t try or even show any consideration for your well being and what that entails. Slowly going broke, boot straps harder you entitled millennial swine. Work harder for daddy warbucks so my retirement looks good.
Sorry let’s be fair my Nana loved me immensely and she thought we were all great but she was part of the great generation (the people who gave birth to baby boomers).
The Silent Generation gave birth to the Baby Boomers.
The Greatest Generation fought in WWII.
Obviously, if you have a very early Boomer with older parents, you’d then have a boomer born to the greatest generation. But the bulk of that generation was from the Silent Generation.
I will vote for her in the primary and happily the general election if she wins the primary. I certainly hope she does.
I’d consider voting for her in the general even if she lost the primary.
If only we had ranked choice voting nationwide
It’s as obvious to them as it is to us. It would be naive to think they don’t know. At this point everyone against RCV is telling us who they really support by their actions.
AOC supports ranked choice voting and that’s why she’ll likely get my vote.
If she’s the democratic candidate then democrats are dummer then I thought. It’s been proven the US will not vote in a women president. Boomers won’t, Muslims won’t, orthodox Jewish won’t. Uber religious Catholics won’t. Just too much change at once will ruin the it for her. 10:years from now maybe.
Clinton won the popular vote in 2016. We have had a decade since then. I think you are also way over-generalizing the groups you mention.
Last time I checked we still have the electoral college. I should have used that example as well as to why a female president won’t happen yet. I say 10 years as that’s when many older boomers will be dead. A see of change will happen in Washington as millennials step up to the plate to control the white house
I would say it’s been proven that Democrats, mostly progressives, won’t vote for a candidate who spouts conservative values. Which is what both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris did. For fuck’s sake Kamala Harris graciously accepted the endorsement by fucking Dick Cheney and his piece of shit daughter. Literally the moment she did that I knew we lost the race.
you have no idea what you’re talking about, so you should stop.
I have a pretty good idea what I’m talking about
obviously, you think you do.
you don’t.
Yes, he does. He is correct, too many people (even those on “the left”) don’t seem to come out to vote when a woman is the candidate, not for president at least.
AOC is far far more popular than Hilary ever was. The problem isn’t the voters.
Well in a couple years we’ll see won’t we. Frankly I hope I am wrong. But I’ve seen this before and how it ends.
go ahead and message me in a couple years.
also, you spelled dumber wrong.
More people voted for Hillary Clinton than Trump.
Yeah but we have an electoral college so that doesn’t matter and many of the small rural states aren’t the voting women type
The Democrats now control enough state legislatures that they can do away with the Electoral Collage via the NPVIC.
This is huge, and needs to be a major discussion in America.
I have a feeling we are going to have to hold their feet to the fire to force them to do the right thing.
Fingers crossed
Sure. My point is that the plurality of voters would vote in a woman, and tried to.
I’m not saying it’s more likely than not, but something like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is possible.
So, the US as a people would vote in a woman but our antidemocratic political system fucks it up.
Yeah, I also said in another comment that it will happen eventually, just not this next election
This is unfortunately very true, have my upvote.
Her honesty and directness are so refreshing. I wish I could be more like her, just a totally good pure person. It also seems like she genuinely tries hard, like her success is not without extreme effort.
It’s a choice, she chooses that path, every time. Repeatedly, regardless of what she faces, she tries to make the best choices in that situation. And the more you do that the better you get at it. It sounds simple, in writing it out, but it’s usually the hardest choice. It’s choosing to stick to your guns, regardless of social ostracism.
Repeatedly, regardless of what she faces, she tries to make the best choices in that situation
Including voting against the bill to discontinue funding for the Zionazi state’s Iron Dome?
(Edit: My mistake, she actually voted "Present’, and her excuse was basically “the bill didn’t do enough so I decided we should do nothing at all”. Very Democrat of her indeed.)
It was chess. She sent a long letter to her constituents explaining why she went from no to present.
There was a lot on the table they were fighting for in a republican led congress.
Dems pressured her hard to vote yes, and she needed them to synchronize to try to rescue “The Build Back Better package”
The bill was rushed in to create a political wedge
finally her vote was not actually affecing the outcome, so it was pure political capitalNo concessions on Genocide support.
good for you, nothing to see here
I don’t give a fuck about your “chess” during genocide. You vote to stop the mass ethnic cleansing of human beings or you don’t. And if you don’t, fuck you, in the least uncertain of terms.
How often have you been in a position where you had to chose between results and principles?
Politicians who stand unflinchingly on their convictions do not serve the people. You will never hear the voices of those who fell on their swords to avoid going against their morals, for they are dead and their swords are buried in what could have been our ally.
The results I’m interested in achieving basically never conflict with my principles, so no occasions immediately come to mind.
If you don’t unflinchingly stand against genocide, you are a waste of a human, politician or otherwise.
What does it mean to unflinchingly stand against genocide? Is your opinion that when given the trolly problem the correct answer is scream at the trolly that it isn’t supposed to kill people? Does that fix the problem.
Be careful with your conviction without decision as it is more likely to be taken advantage of than to ever help you or others. “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” - Apparently a Sith Obi-Wan Kenobi
Well lookie here, another fine blocked user, good riddance
liberals when they encounter principles: BLOCKED
People pointed out that any financial support frees up budgets for offensive weapons and she changed her stance. (Or maybe it was the backlash in general.) I don’t know what votes have come up since.
No such a thing as a “totally good pure person”. You can praise people without lying to yourself, it’s possible I promise . She deserves more intellectually honest praise than “she’s perfect and without flaw”
‘Pure’ is nonexistent drivel. No human is ‘pure’ anything. Its dehumanizing. She’s human. She’s imperfect. She gets the job done and has a good heart. She’s not pure in anything.
I don’t know…it’s hard to think Stephen Miller isn’t pure hobbit Nosferatu.
Her honesty, directness, and willingness to continue using our taxpayer dollars to continue funding ‘defensive’ weapons for an apartheid occupation determined by the UN to be guilty of genocide.
(Edit: My mistake, she actually voted "Present’, and her excuse was basically “the bill didn’t do enough so I decided we should do nothing at all”. Very Democrat of her indeed.)
