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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the progressive firebrand who cruised to re-election last week, suggested in a new interview that she might be on her way out of politics.
What did Ocasio-Cortez say?
Speaking with the New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez said she might depart from politics as it becomes even more clear that her far-left progressive agenda is not welcome in the Democratic Party.
When asked if she is considering a Senate run in the next couple of years, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I genuinely don’t know.”
“I don’t even know if I want to be in politics. You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn’t even know if I was going to run for re-election this year,” she added. “It’s the incoming. It’s the stress. It’s the violence. It’s the lack of support from your own party. It’s your own party thinking you’re the enemy.”
She continued, “But I’m serious when I tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere — they’re probably the same.”
Ocasio-Cortez spent much of the interview lashing out at the Democratic Party for not accepting her brand of ultra-left politics, claiming that progressive policies are winning elections — not losing them.
She said:
I’ve been begging the party to let me help them for two years. That’s also the damn thing of it. I’ve been trying to help. Before the election, I offered to help every single swing district Democrat with their operation. And every single one of them, but five, refused my help. And all five of the vulnerable or swing district people that I helped secured victory or are on a path to secure victory. And every single one that rejected my help is losing. And now they’re blaming us for their loss.
So I need my colleagues to understand that we are not the enemy. And that their base is not the enemy. That the Movement for Black Lives is not the enemy, that Medicare for all is not the enemy. This isn’t even just about winning an argument. It’s that if they keep going after the wrong thing, I mean, they’re just setting up their own obsolescence.
Speaking specifically about how the Democratic Party establishment has reacted to her progressive politics, Ocasio-Cortez said, “The last two years have been pretty hostile. Externally, we’ve been winning. Externally, there’s been a ton of support, but internally, it’s been extremely hostile to anything that even smells progressive.”
What are Democrats and media saying?
Moderate Democrats, however, do not share Ocasio-Cortez’s sentiment. House Democrats participated in a conference call last week, where they lamented on losing many seats on Election Day and blamed progressive politics for those losses, the New York Times reported.
Meanwhile, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday that the election was an “absolute repudiation” of the Democratic Party’s vision for America.
“There is no way to put this other than to say … Joe Biden winning looks like a one-off. This election for the most part was an absolute repudiation of the Democratic Party as a brand. Their brand doesn’t work across most of America. It just doesn’t,” he said.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang also sounded the alarm that if the Democratic Party doesn’t change course now, they’re going to continue losing elections.
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You just said It’s something similar to what I said before. SO WHY, have you not taken care of it before???????????????
Go ahead an quit politics AOC. You are brainless clueless freak!
I hope her fellow democrat communists continue so she will quit and that would be a good thing for our Republic. She is not all there in the skull, she is very in love with herself in spite of her ugly eyes and mouth and truly did not study but probably moneyed parents bought her a diploma because I studied that which she claims and she knows nothing and probably will wind up in some cheap eating place and no longer spending our money for her overpaid position for overpaid clothing. What a pitiful creature and I think that is why her mother moved to Florida to no longer have to be listening to her stupidity. Go, girl, go!
Senile old ChinaJo Biden looks like he is mindless and infected by a deadly Cordyceps fungus or a similar fungus that turns insects into zombi-robots. Similarly, ChinaJoe Biden is controlled by the deadly MSMDNC/Jilly fungus to ascend to a high goal position satisfactory to the MSMDNC/Jilly fungus, there to remain in place for the MSMDNC/Jilly fungus to complete the consumption of the hostChinaJoeBiden’s innards, and to then sprout long feeler-like tubes from the hostChinaJoeBiden’s empty body from which millions of deadly spores are spread across the country from that high position. See photo of a similar BidenBeetle zombie by nature photog Frank Deschandol
Biden is now almost into Alzheimer’s and for his “speeches” you can see a wire inside his jacket and a closer look you will see a “plug” in his ear because otherwise he babbles, doesn’t know one president from another, does not know which state he is in and how to get off the area he is standing in to say nothing of importance. He is only wanted for the WH (which by the way he and the slut will not win the WH, thank GOD) and be there a short time and then says he has to quit due to health (for sure that is true) and then Pelosi steps into being in the WH and she is just a little less demented than Biden. In any case most of us want a NEW voting day with honesty and no hiding, burning, trashing republican or others for voting for Trump. I thank Trump with those fantastic attorneys he has getting the SC and some states facing dangers and must be sure not all votes for Biden when he couldn’t get even 20 in his rallies while Trump gets thousands and we know they voted for him and we want those votes COUNTED correctly and votes seen by both democrats and our republicans this time around. This is OUR REPUBLIC and we do not want democrat communism taking over our country. No way, Jose! I lived under socialism and ain’t nothing free and if you don’t work you starve and die. My husband lived and suffered under communism and that is how we know that the DNC Party published in 1963 their Communist Manifesto to take over our country but they try and try but we will win big time. We will not be slaves and many just killed off for talk or action. There is also talk that their Party can no longer be in our Congress and there are other groups could be in our Congress that are not communists or socialists. Time to remember that WE,THE PEOPLE, ARE THE (REAL) GOVERNMENT AND POWER and those in Congress are hired help (or as our Founders named them: SERVANTS) and I would like the Legislature no longer handle our tax money for their benefits and we have a separate dept. to take care of how our taxes are received and used. In any case God heard our prayers for Trump in 2016 and we are praying that God will do the same for Trump again.
What if you threatened (political) suicide…and the crowd cheered you onward?
Adios, Almost Occasionally-Cognizant! Bar-tending suits you better, anyway.
I think you made a better living on your knees as a bartender!
Is there anything we conservatives could do to help hasten and finalize your decision to leave politics permanently? Although, if you do choose to stay, your (and the rest of “the squad’s”) vacuous, poorly informed, grandiose, pie-in-the-sky ideas can probably do more to help antagonize most Americans in both parties against your progressive (read socialist to borderline communist) platform planks than anything else (with the probable exception of “Nance the Ripper.”)
Touché😉 Couldn’t of said it better myself.
Just read my info above and will know this is not and never will be Socialism but outright communism because the DNC is the Party of Communism since clarifying that in 1963.
Relocate to Cuba where you will feel more at home.