AOC says Democrats don’t always have the cojones to fight for what’s right. And Republicans hate her because she’s a young and outspoken woman of color with social media star power.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) gave a candid assessment of her growing power inside the Democratic Party and her increasing role as a lightning rod in the national culture wars in a new interview with the New Yorker.
“I wish the Democratic Party had more stones,” AOC said. “I wish our party was capable of truly supporting bold leadership that can address root causes.”
The 32-year-old Bronx native said she’s everything that a Republican Party dominated by older white men loves to hate.
“There’s just some surface-level stuff…. I’m young, I’m a woman, I’m a woman of color,” she said. “I’m everything that they need. I’m the red meat for their base.”
AOC’s wide-ranging interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick went live on Monday.
The progressive firebrand mixed plainspoken observations about her role in American political culture to diplomatic understatements about potential clashes on the horizon with fellow Democrats and Republicans alike.
Ocasio-Cortez frankly admitted that her role as a political pop cultural figure can drive reactions to her from both the right and left.
For example, she admits that some on the progressive left cringed at her appearance at the 2021 Met Gala in a figure-hugging dress emblazoned with the slogan “Tax the Rich.”
But she insists that attention-grabbing stunts give her a stronger platform to fight for her base among working people.
“Sometimes you just need to give a little Bronx jeer to the rich and to the spectacle. You need to puncture the façade,” she said. “Sometimes you just need to have that moment.”
AOC has said she feels uncomfortable with some of her “creepy” older male colleagues like Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who posted an anime fantasy video depicting him killing her.
Ocasio-Cortez refused to take the bait when it comes to the futures of President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Democrats’ aging leadership team in Congress.
“I believe that, at the end of the day, there’s going to be a generational change in our leadership,” AOC said. “That is just a simple fact. Now, when that particular moment happens? I think it’s a larger question of conditions and circumstance.”
AOC also spoke frankly about how she balances her idealism — the “big, beautiful Nobel Prize-winning” stuff like fighting for action on climate change — with the in-the-trenches work of negotiating legislation and strategy with a Congress that is overwhelmingly older and more pragmatic.
“The day-to-day of my day job is frustrating. So is everyone else’s,” she said. “I ate s— when I was a waitress and a bartender, and I eat s— as a member of Congress. It’s called a job, you know?
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Once again she’s wrong. ITS THE DEMS WHO DO fight for what they want.. ITS the GOP that seems to continually show THEY LACK the balls to fight.
Ma ybe, Alexandri Ocasio Cortez, You are The Reason So Many dempcrat Representatives aren’t Going To Run For Office Again as they see that with the Young Leftists like you that it would be useless to even run for elected office again.
It may sound wrong, b ut its because of cretins like her, that make me wanna REPEAL the 17th amendment, giving women the vote.. BECAUSE FAR TOO MANY of them in office, show they are UTTERLY useless…
Only In America Coul d a Member Of The Socialist- Communist , democratic Party of America and A Muslim Squade elite rise from such hummble Beginnings to set In the Halls of Washington as A Representative. But It Should Come As no Surprise, Didn’t America make a little Known Senator From Illinois, A B la ck Man, A Two- Term President Of The United States.??
There’s America’s problem:
Deuteronomy 17:15 …thou mayest not set a stranger over thee.
Maybe some day we’ll get back to following the Bible.
Maybe we need to go back to the days, ONLY MEN who worked for a living, and owned land, could run for office..
SPOT ON.
Quote, Balls, Said The Queen, If I Had Two, I’d Be King. ” Author Unknown… MUSLIM MEMBER OF THE SQUADE” Me Thinks Thou. Does Protest too Much. ” Author Unknown ..To. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Well, the men of her party certainly would have a lot more stones had she and her marching men-hating menacing squad of Mohel misandry, put down their knives and embraced the men of her party as equals. I hear when her Latin blood begins to boil, she just loves to go to the Bull fights and afterwards dine on Cojones Tacos and Tequila, but only shows up for dinner when it is the Matadors, not the bulls who lose the fight. Another reason she loves to the Democrat party of Bull, who lose more often than they win, and satiate the appetite of the parasite party of carnivores who have been often known to eat their own.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is a Card – Carrying Member Of The Socialist Party And Als A democrat Along With Socialist, Burnie Sanders and I ‘m SureA Few Communists Too. What Socialists Lile To Do is To Give Other Peoples Money That is Forceably Taken By The Government by the Taxes They are Forced To Pay In To Government And Given To Another Class Of People . Margret Thatcher of England explained Socialiism this Way, When She Said, ” Socialism Is Find Until You Run Out Of Other People’s Money. “
You know, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Is n’t Very Tolerant Of The older Generation Who are Now In elite Politicial politocial Positions Of Leadership in The democrat Party Obvviously She Feels that the Older Elite Should Step Aside And Let Her Generation Run Things As They know Whats Happening . You Know, She’s A Fine Example Of Her Genetation , Isn’t She… Heaven Help Us If She’s An Example Of Her Generation…
Part 1—The photo obviously wasn’t taken when she was partying in Florida.
“AOC says Democrats don’t always have the cojones to fight for what’s right. And Republicans hate her because she’s a young and outspoken woman of color with social media star power.” We all wish the Dems had the cojones to do what is right.
“I wish the Democratic Party had more stones,” AOC said. “I wish our party was capable of truly supporting bold leadership that can address root causes.” Any time you people want to support bold leadership and address root causes, feel free. It would be greatly appreciated. You have certainly had that in the past and you have been everything but supportive. A “D” by the name is not an indication of capability, competence, and leadership quality. Case in point—the present administration. Likewise, an “R” by the name doesn’t spell disaster. You have to learn what constitutes sound judgment and in what direction the country is being taken.
Part 2—“The day-to-day of my day job is frustrating. So is everyone else’s,” she said. “I ate s— when I was a waitress and a bartender, and I eat s— as a member of Congress. It’s called a job, you know?
When that’s all you serve up, I guess that’s what you get. The problem, Miss Cortez, is that you people can somewhat identify existing problems, but you are so immersed in lying, finger-pointing, and playing the blame game—that you totally miss the facts staring you in the face—they just go right over your head. You live by the credo that the Republicans are always in the wrong—it’s all about pushing a Liberal agenda and political gamesmanship—even if it isn’t good for the country.
As for your job—you need to learn what your job is and do it.
EVEN IF they can ‘identify’ the problem’, SINCE 99% of the time ITS THEIR OWN harebrained ideals, that CREATED IT, they will never ever bother ACTUALLY Trying to fix that problem.. BECAUSE that would mean they would have to ACCEPT responsibility FOR that problem existing.
If the democrats had as many stones as she has had they could start a gravel pit. Just sayin!
“AOC says Democrats don’t always have the cojones to fight for what’s right. And Republicans hate her because she’s a young and outspoken woman of color with social media star power.”
No people dislike the stupid, load mouth, radical, self-righteous, bimbo bar tender, AOC, because she IS nothing but a stupid, load mouth, radical, self-righteous, bimbo bar tender and has no business being in Congress.
The Democrat Party wins most of their followers because they are ill-informed or low intellect.
Their propaganda or narrative works on an emotional level, not on the intellectual level.
Cortezes Motto, ” Do Others Before They Do You. And She Does The Easy Ones Twice.
she is a legend in her own mind.
This isn’t on Subje t but I Saw democrat Secertary pf State Unde democrat President Joe Biden , Antony Blinken , And his Name Brought To mind A Old Children’s Nursery Story Called, ” Wynken, Blynken, And Nod . ” Has anyone else noticed how some of those on the Joe Biden Administration are easlily Changed to something to state their Chara ter like ” Leaky Leathy, Adam Shiffy.etc.