A Sense of Doubt blog post #3419 - Why is AOC so hated?

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3419 - Why is AOC so hated?

Not going to lie. I ADORE Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- the AOC. And she's not even my representative.

She's an amazing human. A good human. She does the right thing.

The right like to vilify those who do the right thing, those with morals and scruples, those with principles, those who will oppose the MAGA extremists that many moderate Republicans are too afraid to call out for their evils.

AOC reflects the future of the country, a future in which white people will be in the minority, and this future prospect frightens these White Christian Nationalists to the root of their souls.

And so, they find ways to condemn AOC for what they feel are reasonable criticisms, seemingly unaware of their transparent projections.

I applaud AOC.

I wish the House on both sides were full of people just like her, dedicated to GOVERNING our country rather than sensationalist, clickbaity headline grabs to raise money off animus and hate.

It's funny to me that she is so hated for doing good things, governing, helping people, defending people, calling out sexism, calling out threats of violence against her and others, calling out racism, being a strong woman, being a good and string human.

I don't even want to say I hate Trump. I probably do, but I am trying not to. Hate is ugly. I feel sorry for him. He is clearly mentally ill.

But if I were to actually hate him, I would have just cause given all the awful things he has done or caused.

AOC is not the same, and those who hate her are sexist and racist, though they are rationalizing it as something else, and they are projecting their own fear and possibly self-loathing as hatred for her.

So childish.

Below, I share materials AOC sent in the run up to her primary, which, BY THE WAY, she won.

Thank you AOC.

You rock.

Here’s a question I get a lot: “Why are you considered to be extreme?”

I am considered “extreme” because:

– I believe in Medicare for All, aka guaranteed healthcare in the United States.

– I authored the Green New Deal, and believe tackling the climate crisis will take a much more massive and serious mobilization than what we’re doing now.

– Although I am a Democrat, I operate independently from either party’s establishment. So I am willing to challenge my own party’s leadership and, when necessary, break from the party line.

– I do not believe in late stage capitalism or that prioritizing the extreme pursuit of profit at any and all human/environmental costs will save us. I believe in cooperative economics and cooperative democracy, aka democratic socialism.

– My campaign is funded by grassroots, small-dollar donations and I accept $0 in corporate money (the average donation to keep me in office is around $16).

– I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist.

– I am the youngest woman in U.S. history to be elected to Congress. I was a waitress. I am Latina. I come from a low income background and am one of just a few working class people who got elected to Congress. That makes a lot of classist, ageist, misogynist, and racist people mad.

People like to lie about and caricature me a lot, which makes folks believe all sorts of things that aren’t true!

Did you know that over half of all Members of Congress are millionaires? Meanwhile, the median household income is only $70,784.  This is wild.

Many of our lawmakers have no lived experience of working paycheck to paycheck or trying to pay rent working a low-wage job.

To me, policy is personal. When I worked as a bartender, I relied on tips to pay the bills. I know the urgent and daily stresses of working class people because I have lived them. And I intimately understand how important measures like raising the minimum wage, universal health care, universal child care, and free college can be for families living in financial uncertainty.

That’s why I’m in Congress: to represent working families like mine.

I am honored to be here, and I can’t do this work without you — the grassroots supporters who have had my back every step of the way. I can’t self-fund my campaign by writing a big check, and I don’t do any donor call-time or exclusive fundraising events

DIRECT LINK

Fox News is big mad that we’re for the many, not the money.

We rallied 1200 people in the Bronx to take on dark money, get fired up, and send busloads of volunteers to canvass and phone bank.

It’s called organizing. And it’s fun as hell.

Get into it: https://t.co/KhvvokqBG6 https://t.co/xJpJIi2HhM pic.twitter.com/bBx3HhjsLH

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 24, 2024

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