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In reply to the discussion: I was a big fan, but Ocasio-Cortez is starting to get on my nerves. [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)To ignore everything actually noteworthy about the candidate you choose to attack by suggesting working for a law firm that did corporate work places them in the same basket as "big banks" and "lead from the center" politics... wow, she chose the "wrong" job offer fresh out of law school, so now she's forever tarred and feathered and all her other progressive political positions and achievements since are dismissed for it?
To even have mentioned his primary opponents was shady enough, they could have went with how Pence is out fundraising for Yoder, the Republican. Campaigned for the candidate she likes by talking up their positives, not others negatives -- which I hope she does in whatever she actually says herself.
But instead, whoever wrote this bullshit fundraising email I'm praying AOC herself didn't actually read decided to use the three things mentioned about the other candidates as reasons to dismiss them. Automatically making them all equivalent, and equivalently bad.
I don't know what name you want to put on such tactics, but they suck. So probably whatever name you use for it is going to be derogatory.