[Peace-discuss] [New post] The Revolutionary Struggle Is A Fight Between Movement And Inertia

[Brussel, Morton K]

AOC says things as a congressional representative that no, or few, others do.  So I find the criticisms here self defeating, not to say annoying. Yes, she’s not ideal, but who is stepping forward in Congress more than her?  
What is her position of the military budget?

> On Dec 16, 2020, at 6:22 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Karen Aram wrote:
>> Jimmy did a good job of uncloaking AOC as he did, as I’ve tried, as a tool nothing
>> more.
>> A better Jimmy Dore VDO, less screaming and cursing, is his take down of Jacobin’s
>> David Sirota over Med4All. I will forward once and if I’m able to locate it
>> online.
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> That video has not yet been uploaded but should show up on Jimmy Dore's channel https://youtube.com/channel/UC3M7l8ved_rYQ45AVzS0RGA and I'm okay with Dore's screaming and cursing, particularly on issues of massive immiseration and life & death policies including war and Medicare for All.
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> https://on.rt.com/axfh is another chapter of AOC's apparently ongoing spinelessness. She said:
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>> “I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” Ocasio-Cortez
>> said during an interview on the Intercept’s podcast on Wednesday.
>> She added, however, that currently the party’s progressive wing would not be able
>> to fill the created power vacuum. “If you create that vacuum, there are so many
>> nefarious forces at play to fill that vacuum with something even worse,” she
>> explained.
>> Ocasio-Cortez lamented that the longtime Democratic leaders, Pelosi and Senate
>> Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, spent years concentrating power without any “real
>> grooming of a next generation of leadership.”
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> As Dore has pointed out, AOC is all vim and vigor when she wants her district to vote for her (telling people to "Bring the ruckus" and such as she said in https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKdsnZbWmYI [1]) but when it comes to challenging her or challenging specific people she depends on for funding, like Nancy Pelosi who redistributes money to compliant congresspeople, AOC is a front for the establishment. AOC took a very comparable tack on the widely underdiscussed CARES Act in which trillions were added to the economy and overwhelmingly given to the wealthiest people and wealthiest businesses while the Democrats caved and we got basically nothing (a single $1200 check is a joke that spared nobody's home or job). Therefore the public is better served with a clear opponent -- a wolf in wolf's clothing rather than a wolf in sheep's clothing -- because the latter apparently bamboozles progressives into supporting their campaigns.
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> [1] While Matt Orfalea's videos are quite good, that video and Orfalea's other AOC/Jimmy Dore video https://youtube.com/watch?v=fmiJ3SX2XuM create a false impression that AOC and Dore share a mutual support for Medicare for All. They do not. Dore is a genuine champion of Medicare for All and he's powerless to do more than he's doing. AOC has given lip service to Medicare for All because she knows that so long as Pelosi is House Speaker AOC is unlikely to have to face voting for a Medicare for All bill. AOC shows no clear sign that she'll use her power to use her leverage compelling Pelosi to bring up Rep. Jayapal's Medicare for All bill up for a vote in the House.
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