AOC, and progressives in general, taking over the Democratic party is the only hope for its successful continuation. Assuming we have elections.
She IS the leader of the Democratic Party.
Lol yeah, she’s touring the country throwing rallies while Schumer is trying to lead, “We stand with Israel. We will win.” chants with the least amount of charisma possible and Jefferies is doing interviews and insisting the Democrats’ biggest issue is messaging.
Well he’s not that far off.
If only by forfeit.
The dems have been in dire need of a new leader and new ideas. Hopefully not just AOC but many more young inspired people will stand up alongside her.
I’d be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.
Warren for sec of treasury. Walz for HUD or even better, cabinet level position in charge of figuring out the young man problem. He’s representative of the role model a lot of young men are missing imho.
I don’t wanna see another dem pres candidate that’s older than me (mid 50s) EVER AGAIN. The problems my kids are facing aren’t going to be fixed by old people, and while I’m not quite there yet, I’m fucking close enough.
There is zero reason to throw a moderate on there.
Run a fair primary and number 2 gets first right if refusal for vice.
If they don’t want it, let the candidate pick their running mate.
They just need a candidate that can get 100m votes. Like it should not be hard in the age of stolen data to pick a person who can get 100m people off the couch. I don’t care what the Democrats like at this point. If we can’t figure out a candidate and policy that will invigorate 100,000,000 people we don’t even deserve to be running.
can you get 1/3 of the country to vote against fascism? challenge: impossible
We know the DNC leadership is interested more in keeping control of their half of the duopoly than winning elections.
They will never allow a leftist to run.
AOC isn’t that leftist anymore. Years of washington have certainly made her more bearable to moderates. I came around to her a long time ago, she’s an excellent speaker and very intune with the issues.
I’d vote for her
I mean VP in recent history is there to balance the ticket. If the presidential candidate is weak in one area, they pick a VP strong in that area. Sometimes the VP is just to lock in a competitive state.
The winner picks the VP. If number 2 works well, great, but the winner picks.
I understand wishes, but let’s be realistic.
Nearly half the voters went for Trump, even after everything from pussy grabbing to January 6.
If AOC god the nod, she’d have to have someone like Manchin as Veep.
I know the argument constantly rages - too left! Too centrist! and I don’t know which one would be more effective.
On the other hand, the closest we’ve come to a real left candidate at least in my lifetime was Sanders and the thumb on the scale against him was pretty corporate blue - and the mainstream lost, so maybe we should try it the other way?
Ya my mom can barely grasp what’s going on right now. No concept of the future beyond her life. I’m pushing 40 and got no idea what the kids want or need or how our education system got so fucked. we really can’t be having geriatrics making policy that will affect the future beyond their immediate life
I would support a cutoff for president at say 60 when starting office, that would keep us below 70 for a two-termer. That’s plenty old enough.
Also the 18 year rolling term limit idea for SCOTUS.
Yea i don’t really mind the SCOTUS issue. That goes away with the two party issue, politicized judges with zero integrity is a failure of congress. I like that judges hold benches and get lifetimes of experience and wisdom. I like the old age and prudence rule in courts. Congress ya, 70 is probably getting to old. There’s no reason to throw them out of the party, but they do not need to be holding seats when we need to be constantly generating new politicians. They all became so obsessed with their own power they forget they will eventually die with no one to carry their torch. There needs to be a better transition of leadership, as well as coherent leadership. People of all ages should be represented in congress similar to how we are in public. If the boomers are 30% of the population they shouldn’t be holding more than 30% of the seats. Fair equitable representation.
in charge of figuring out the young man problem
Both a great idea and one that will absolutely piss of the conservatives that are happy to see their young men embrace far right ideologies even if it comes with violent hatred in the process.
This was a great podcast episode that addresses the young men issue directly. Scott Galloway has been talking about it for a while.
https://overcast.fm/+ABEb8GDsq4Q
At about 70 minutes, he states that the greatest innovation from the United States is the middle class, and he makes a good argument IMHO. He talks about how there were about seven million men that came back from World War II having proven themselves, with some confidence, and of course being in uniform doesn’t hurt. They had opportunity for education, help with starting a career and affording a home, and all that made them attractive mates and led to the baby boom and the rise of the middle class. (I know it’s an oversimplification, of course.)
Here’s a fun conspiracy theory for you – what if somebody recognizes that sequence of events and thinks the best thing we could do would be to replicate it? If that was your goal, what would you do to make it happen, but with a twist to the far right?
I’d be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.
I would fear for AOC’s safety with Buttigieg as her VP. And not just because he’s McKinsey. Because there are a lot of democrats that hate her and would consider Buttigieg an acceptable replacement.
Kevin McCarthy can go fuck himself. Seriously. I don’t care WHAT he says. He’s a fucking shill and helped flush the country down the drain. Fuck anything that bastard says.
Who cares what Macarthy thinks. He’s a republican that bent the knee. He belongs in prison with the rest of the traitors.
Don’t buy into this garbage. Just another attempt at dividing people.
He’s just butthurt mtg and gaetz ousted him
About time. The Dems need about as much fixing as the rest of the country. At the moment, they are not even a functioning opposition party.
McCarthy’s dumb as a bag of pea gravel and this is his idea of scaremongering.
this is one case where I hope McCarthy is right. Might be a few election cycles before some tangible change, but it needs to happen.
She’s young, she could decide to run for Chuck’s Senate seat in 2028. She would be just as compelling a Presidential candidate in 2032 or 2036…
… But if a fair election is held in 2028, it is essential that Democtats field the best possible candidate, not just the next one up. (Hi, Gavin!) If AOC thinks that’s her, then I will happily support that. If she supports someone else (Booker, Walz, etc), I will also be listening. But if we fuck this one up, and Vance or Eric Trump or Sean Hannity get elected, that might be game over for Democracy here. We may not get another chance.
As a NY State resident, I am eagerly looking forward to voting for AOC in some capacity in 2028, whether it’s for Senator, VP, or President. I’ll let her decide where she thinks she can create the most change.
Eh if it’s just Vance running, I wouldn’t be too worried. The man has the charisma of a flopping fish
HW bush ran and won off the senile ghost of Reagan’s charisma…
Vance could too.
But we should still run AOC now, because after 8 years of AOC, there’s be new blood
There’s never a reason to “save” a candidate, and nothing is stopping her from being a senator after.
Seniority being important is something that the old guard just agreed on.
They might put him forward precisely because he has no charisma. The understanding would be that Trump was calling the shots, even if he didn’t hold the office. Puppets stop flopping around once their controller puts their hand up their ass and grabs the controls
Oh, just STFU, and GTFO.
God willing
Cheers bro i’ll drink to that
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Sure looks like republicans are scared of AOC.
But centrists saw a progressive woman seizing the moment and suddenly decided that women can’t win.
