Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
01.01.2020
A.O.C. and the Self-Important Caucus
I
heard the representative from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complaining
about former Vice President, Joe Biden the other day.
She
offered her insight regarding his candidacy, stating that in another country
the two of them wouldn’t even be in the same party. I think that she meant it
as some kind of scathing rebuke of Joe Biden, who is running against her
preferred candidate Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party’s
nomination for President of the United States.
Of
course Bernie Sanders is not a democratic, he is an independent running as a
self-styled democratic-socialist. Ocasio-Cortex is a democrat but she styles
herself as a democratic-socialist as well.
There
is no Democratic-Socialist Party in America, maybe there should be, but there
isn’t, there are a few minor political parties, like the Green Party and the Libertarians,
they hold a few seats in local governments around the country. The United
States remains a two party system, with the Democrats and the Republicans
holding sway.
Like
it or not that is the way it is.
It
is true, what she said, that in another country she and Joe Biden would not be
in the same party. The insight her rebuke lacks is this: in those other
countries the party she would find herself in would at best be a minor part of
a governing coalition.
Her
comments also fail to appreciate how she came to represent her constituents.
She was elected to office as a Democrat, had she run as a third party candidate
or an independent, it is not likely she would have been successful.
She
ran as a Democrat in a democratic primary and unseated the incumbent, who was a
member of the Democratic Party leadership. Her opponent accepted his defeat,
allowing her to use all of the tools the party had to offer to win the seat for
real.
That
is the way the Party system works, and it worked for her.
Now
Ocasio-Cortez wants to campaign for her pal on the notion that the Democratic Party
should have a smaller tent. In this election year we have to stay focused on
the positive, talk about the ideas, tell me what you stand for.
If
your team is spending political capital telling us why they are against the Joe
Biden or Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg or Michael Bloomberg it only confirms
that your preferred candidate will not be able to come into power with a strong
enough constituency to accomplish any of your legislative goals.
We
do not need ideological puritans holding office with their precious “integrity”
intact, while they sit around out of power with their so-called progressivism
stuck in reverse, because the other team has won.
Keep
your eye on the prize people, in 2020 its not just the white house on the line,
its redistricting, and no matter who wins the nomination we all have to work
together if we are going to get past this moment in time.
فنحن نقوم بكافة أعمال التنظيف للشقق والفلل والقصور نعمل على تنظيف كافة المنزل بداية من الأرضيات سواء كانت بلاط أو سراميك أو رخام و أيضا نقوم بتنظيف فرش الأرضيات سواء موكيت أو سجاد بأكثر من طريقة سواء باستخدام البخار أو بجهاز الرغوة الالية أو باستخدام الفرشاة الاليه. كما نقوم بتنظيف الأثاث بأجود المواد التي لا تؤثر على درجة الالوان أو حالة الأخشاب كما نقوم بتلميع الزجاج ممها بلغ ارتفاعة.
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