Right when he’s completely useless, he pushes for this. Pathetic and disingenuous.

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    AOC talks big game but she’s just a populist. As a NYer, she hasn’t done anything useful for her constituents. Don’t expect anything from her beyond populist agendas

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      Why do people keep using “populist” like it’s a negative?

      Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the common people and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite group.[1] It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment.[2]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

      Oh no! People like her and her policies are popular!!!

      /s

      Like, Pelosi just got a 74 year old with terminal cancer and recently involved with I aider trading violations on the top seat of the oversight committee over AOC because AOC would have weeded out corruption.

      That’s what the people want, an honest party.

      And you’re big take down of her is that would have been popular?!

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        Like “AOC” didn’t spend the last year talking out both sides of her mouth about a genocide, including endorsing one of its perpetrators. AOC isn’t a “progressive”, she’s the epitome of the Democratic party, all appearance and no justice, “where protest movements go to die”.

        Activists have already moved on from her, what is taking the rest of you so long?

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        Why do people keep using “populist” like it’s a negative?

        because it’s virtually always tied to policies that are meant to be easily digestible for the lowest common denominator. as it turns out, however, that complex problems virtually never have simple solutions.

        ie Trump and his border wall in 2016. Populist with a populist platform to stop illegal immigration. What does it actually accomplish? Nothing because

        a) it’s impractical to actually build a wall across the entire length of the border

        b) majority of illegal immigrants come legally on tourist visas and then overstay

        but why focus on “The Wall”? Because Trump understands that it’s an easily understandable symbol he can point to.

        Left wing populism is similar. For example “tax the rich!” is a common mantra. And sure, taxing the rich is good. But what use is there in increasing tax revenue by a fraction of a percent when we are bleeding money at the seams to corruption? It’s not going to solve our deficit. It’s not going to lower taxes for the average American. Look at how the military will spend $100k on a bag of metal bushings that me and you can buy on Amazon for $100.

        But how are you going to tackle the problem of deeply ingrained corruption? It permeates from our local institutions all the way to the upper echelons. Look how Haliburton got billions of dollars worth of “no-bid” contracts during the Bush administration. Just happens that Cheney, the most powerful VP in history, used to work there.

        There is no easy solution. So populists come and say “tax the rich” or “build a wall” when in reality it does absolutely nothing to fix the actual problems. But the real solutions are complex and hard to relay to voters. and in fact, the solutions are painful and no politician would ever campaign on painful policies. For these reasons I think we are doomed as a society and that technocratic countries like China are going to dominate us in the next century unless we can radically change course

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      As a NYer, she hasn’t done anything useful for her constituents.

      She’s got excellent constituent services, wtf are you even talking about? That’s why she wins big every cycle. Joe Crowley, the Dem she primaried out, had shitty services which ended up costing him the seat in 2018.

      Don’t expect anything from her beyond populist agendas

      Constituent Services are populist.