Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came under fire from her closest allies on the left — including a fellow Squad member — after a raucous reception at the DNC.
“Her inability to say it’s a genocide for months, her inability to take the oppositional role that Rashida Tlaib is taking in this moment, is a betrayal.” “For people who struggle letting go of the notion of AOC as this upstart insurgent against the establishment, I think it is uncomfortable to reckon with her absorption into the establishment because it reinforces despair,” Husain said. “It reinforces this disillusionment, that we can’t do anything at all to change things in America. But that is not true. We can always change things. We can always build an alternative.” Since then, Democrats have effectively co-opted and watered down the term “ceasefire” to quell outrage over the Biden administration’s role in enabling the genocide. While human rights advocates are calling for an end to Israeli bombings, some Democrats redefined “ceasefire” to effectively refer to a hostage exchange. For the Biden administration and its allies, the ultimate goal is to secure a deal with Saudi Arabia that legitimizes Israel and to oversee an Arab proxy force to run Gaza, a force to be armed and trained by the U.S. It looks like AOC is more than ready to ditch any leftist credentials in favor of moderation - and career advancement, which is of course the raison d'etre for all politicians. *https://theintercept.com/2024/08/21/dnc-aoc-ilhan-omar-kamala-harris-gaza/ <https://theintercept.com/2024/08/21/dnc-aoc-ilhan-omar-kamala-harris-gaza/>* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31746): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31746 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108040384/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
