She’s embarked on a nationwide tour with Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, held town halls outside of her district in upstate New York, and raised $15 million

She’s embarked on a nationwide tour with Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, held town halls outside of her district in upstate New York, and raised $15 million

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive who has cemented her popularity with young voters, is reportedly considering running for president or the Senate in 2028.

Ocasio-Cortez, 35, made a splash when she was elected to represent New York’s 14th congressional district, located in the Bronx and Queens, in 2019. Now, the Democrat is reportedly considering taking the next step in her political career as the party searches for its next generation of leaders, Axios reported Friday.

Members of Ocasio-Cortez’s team have recently been positioning the progressive lawmaker, known as AOC, to either run for president or run for a Senate seat.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    87·
    3 months ago

    Sigh.

    Look. I like her. I like her fighting spirit. I like that she gives a shit. I like it all.

    But when is this country going to learn? Look around you. Our culture is trash. This country is overflowing with racists and sexists and incels. Look at where we are right now.

    We’ve tried to elect a woman twice in a row. They were both WAY more qualified than their opponent. And they lost. I voted for both of them.

    If we run AOC, they’ll run a white male bigot. And they’ll win. Again. Using the same tactics.

    Know your audience.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Damn, guess we better appeal to the sexists and racists, there is just no other option. You are very smart.

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      I’m not sure the racists and sexists and incels are gonna vote for the Democrat candidate even if it was a literal clone of Donald Trump, solely because it’s the Democratic candidate

  • grooveygroovester@lemmy.world
    20·
    3 months ago

    I think both oligarchs and corporatists alike will fight far too hard to take her down. The US would need a far more fair and democratic procedure to elect someone that would change the paradigm like AOC–especially since Citizens United.

    • TheMinister@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      3 months ago

      But why is there such this defeatist attitude any time someone remotely not terrible tries to do something? It’s like we’re doing the fascists work for them with talk like this. I get that fuckery happens any time someone kinda different or kinda maybe good (for a politician) steps up, but that can be overcome with more support. When the margins are thin, it’s easy for them to cheat. When they aren’t, it’s fucking not. So let’s stop making the margins tighter with this kind of talk

      • grooveygroovester@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Super PACs are the fuckery that happens any time someone steps up–and AOC wants justice–she is not an interest for them. We need to stop thinking it is a just world and think like they do. We need need an interest for Super PACs and we need to use that to replace SCOTUS and the majority of Congress. The doddering degenerates in office are an embarrassment. The three branches are littered with dolts and ignorant bigots.

        • TheMinister@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 months ago

          This is all true. But my point is, we have to start somewhere. And politicians are an okay place to start. But they can’t be where we end. They are a small piece of the puzzle. But when we bring defeatism to every single part of the equation, before we try anything in earnest, then no one will ever get anywhere and things will continue to get worse and worse. We need our generations stepping up, and as much as it pains me to say, that includes politicians. We can’t trust them any further than they can be thrown, but they are still a part of the solution that we need.

          Have you ever tried suggesting other parts of the solution? Strikes, collective action, mutual aid, etc? Because any time anything more than a weekend march gets suggested, people always, always, always sound a lot like your first comment where they just start listing reasons they can’t work or will be foiled. Why is that? We are conditioned by a lifetime of the system telling us it’s inevitable and everlasting. But it’s not the only way, and we need to start moving toward a different way. That starts somewhere, and if wherever it starts is poo-poo’ed at the first suggestion, then we are beyond fucked. We need momentum, and once it starts, it will seem like it was always going to go that way. So let’s let it start naturally, without the defeatism literally before we even get started righting the ship.

          “We have to climb this mountain.”

          “But look at that rock, and that stumbling block, and imagine how tired you will get before you can get up there! And look at your shoes, you’re not going to make it in those shoes. You’ll get blisters, and you’ll be sooo thirsty!”

          Etc. etc. See my point?

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 months ago

      He’ll be 78, it would be reasonable for him to retire when his term is up in 2028. Hopefully the fiascos with Biden and multiple Democratic Representatives dying of old age this term (and the Republican Representative who went missing because her family put her in assisted living), and just slightly further back Feinstein being too sick to make critical votes, all push people to stop hanging on to their seats all the way to the bitter end. Pelosi leading the way here, showing it can be done.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    And with a captured SCOTUS and ineffective congress the republicans will make sure she gets nothing done. Assuming there’s even an election.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    514·
    3 months ago

    Fox has propagandized the right to hate her to such an immense degree that this simply is a terrible idea. She can never win.

    • bus_factor@lemmy.world
      161·
      3 months ago

      Why is it a problem that the right hate her? They’re not voting for her anyway. Modern US elections are won by motivating new people on your own side to vote, not by reaching across the aisle.

      • chunes@lemmy.world
        37·
        3 months ago

        Well the propaganda doesn’t only work on the right.

        Also, the youngest elected president in history was 43. She has zero chance.

        • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 months ago

          Im sorry youre getting down voted, because youre right. Sorry to be a downer but I interact with real people (unlike i presume a lot of lemmings), and a LOT of them do not like her, for reasons spread by propaganda news all over the place. They know nothing other than she’s a woman and will take yer guns, so she will never win.

          I hope we are wrong though.

        • bus_factor@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          Why does that matter? She’s well over the age limit, and we’ve been getting the oldest president ever quite a few times. The US is all about overcompensating, so I don’t see why we couldn’t swing back to the youngest ever by a small margin. She’s nearly 36 now, so she’ll be 39 when the term starts. I’d certainly be excited about the prospect of having a president who grew up with electricity.

    • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
      4·
      3 months ago

      So the way I could see this working for her is have Bernie Sanders come and endorse her right out the gate (I doubt he’d be up for being her running mate, but it’d probably be an even better run if he accepted that).

      Ol’ boy had been VERY effective at breaking into right - leaning spaces and I could see him contributing to getting the historically Democrat (but not recently Democrat) voter out for AOC.

      My real concern is the party leaders. I could see them trying to hold back resources and effectively pulling the same moves they pulled in Bernie to hold her down.