How do you expect progressives policies to become law by alienating your party? It's not simply about "wanting" the status quo, it's acknowledging the status quo is going have a bigger impact on her career than her on it. Which is true. She's not going to come into congress then reshape it to her will, she's a congresswoman not Mr. Mxyzptlk. She could Speaker tomorrow and she'd still have to deal with this shit. Why is unity a bad thing in your eyes? Do you want to see the Dems at each others throats rather than working together to fix the country and the world? It's not our fault centrists and liberals have excelled at making congress their own place, that does from the progressives ceding that ground for decades because they were determined to stay on the outside. Now the progressives are in they need to find methods to make it work for them, like everybody else.
Do you know why unity is prized so much by Democrats? Without it i congress we have nothing. We fall in disarray, our leaders would be unable to discipline their colleagues into voting for the best bills and the GOP take advantage of our weaknesses. AOC is one vote, she neds a lot more than that to pass things and it is within her power to do this.
Bernie was a significant person getting all that in the open and altering the course of politics to the left, I agree. That is where he stops being useful. Progressives need more than idea people, they need to be able to implement them in congress. He was sprouting silly shit in the primaries that never had a shot at happening, like free college and tearing down the prison system, which gets people excited but are DOA in congress, which helps nobody.
Major talk is all it's been. Congress is for passing bills, not talking.
She's not shaking shit up lol
The point of this discussion is that without properly participating she's not winning anything.
