General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: AOC has something to say about her older House colleagues [View all]Hekate
(90,708 posts)...is that she is recommending throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
People like John Lewis, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and many more have made us the party of civil rights, women's rights, health care rights, reproductive rights, the environment, and so much more.
Bye-bye old Dem politicians. You have nothing to teach Alexandria and she doesn't need your help or your votes. You are the ash heap of history. Al Gore and Jerry Brown on the environment? Pfft. What do they know? What have they done lately?
AOC would make a lot more progress and win a lot more friends if she would stop threatening to primary Dems and focus on getting us a permanent Democratic majority in the House and Senate. Get those kids off my lawn and into a voting booth in the midterms. It was the GOP that swore to oppose every single thing Obama attempted, and it was Democrats who stayed home during the midterms and made sure the GOP could do just that. Plus -- and I will not forgive or forget -- it was "the left" on this board who kept up a daily drumbeat announcing that Obama had betrayed every constituency and failed us all.