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In reply to the discussion: ...(The bigger scandal) is the Democratic Party's refusal to impeach him for it. - AOC wow [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Members of Congress don't tweet at each other to communicate. They go down the hall or walk across the House floor and talk to each other. Insulting her colleagues on Twitter is a showboat move great for showing off for her fans. Anybody with a Twitter account and followers can do that. But as a sitting Member of Congress, she has something most tweeters don't have - Direct access to and influence with her colleagues.
But using that isn't easy. She would have to engage in a conversation, listen as much as she talks, respond thoughtfully to their position and perspective. She wouldn't have the nerve to talk about them to their face in the insulting way she talks about them from the safety of Twitter.
But, instead of having rational conversations intended to persuade her colleagues, she takes to Twitter to mock and insult them.
Lots goes on behind the scenes that we're not aware of, so it's possible that she actually is having these conversations. But given her public tantrums and smack-talking, I doubt it. It sounds much more like she:s not ready to do or not interested in doing the work involved in doing part of a Member's job so, instead, she'd taking the easy way out and throwing red meat to her fans.