Culture War is just a idiom for excusing racism and sexism. So AOC faces an uphill battle, especially on a national scale. Also, Leftists still haven't proven they can win outside of very safe Dem districts.
Consider Kara Eastman, who ran as a Berniecrat to flip NEB-02.
Biden will beat Trump for NEB-02's electoral college vote, but Kara Eastman lost to GOP Rep. Don Bacon in the district.
People being mad at the Democrat Brand are really exaggerated in online spaces. It's just rank projection to cover up the fact that Socialism as a Brand is more unpopular than Atheism in the US.
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Then...she's perfect for America? Coming off of Trump, who is wrong about pretty much everything, and entirely a moron, that is...
Joking aside, I agree with those who think that AOC isn't really viable. She fits the "young fresh face" thing that people have been suggesting...but that's about it. Maybe in a decade or two she'll be president material, but definitely not now.
Yeah this is my take on it too. The Trump cult wants Trump not some establishment republican.
But there's also education levels to consider.
Educated votes have far more consistent turnout over election cycles than uneducated voters do.
And the modern GOP is all about the uneducated.
So I think democrats are going to have a far better chance in Georgia next spring than they would have had if those elections had been held yesterday.
It's arguable that this tectonic shift's already happened, but because Democrats aren't willing to lean left, they can't see it. Support for left-wing programs like strong universal health care are way more than 50%; you have to wonder why it doesn't get more support in the polls. If they're going to target Biden of all people as a "socialist", I'd argue it's not that there's some group in the middle who are being left out in the cold, and the Republicans have the far-right on lockdown. So maybe the one path to growing the base is to appeal to the actual left wing.
Oh man. Oh man oh man.
Bernie's about the Cult of Bernie more than anything else. He's the Ron Paul of the US left wing. He wants to be a ranting outsider more than he wants to be an insider effecting real meaningful change. That's why he never stays with the Democratic Party when he's lost his primary run the last two elections. As young as AOC may be, she's actually pushing for that change from within, and getting a hell of a lot of popular national support in the process. Give it 40 years, and I'd lay down money that we'll look back and see Ocasio-Cortez as a far more significant political figure than Bernie Sanders ever managed to become.
Starting to think there will be an investigation into Michigan.
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This election is far to close for any comfort. Only a couple thousand votes between Biden and trump in Nevada and Michigan.
Its disapointing, i dont know how left wing Americans wake up every morning with any hope in there nation.