RE: I love AOC part 2
February 12, 2019 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 7:13 pm by Belacqua.)
(February 12, 2019 at 3:43 pm)Drich Wrote: You know she is describing the clintons right?
Absolutely. This is why a lot of us have (tentative) hope for her career.
2016 was clarifying, in distinguishing the left from the Liberals. The Clintons are Liberals, and those of us on the left are just as fed up with them as anybody else.
Quote:Trump funded himself and did not take one dollar from any special interest group. in fact that is what he calls the 'swamp' and his call to drain the swamp mirrors the same points this lady brought up. Do you remember the chants to 'drain the swamp?' that is exactly what he is refering to.
There was a teeny bit of hope during the campaign, that he would keep his campaign promises and drain the swamp, get us out of ridiculous wars, etc.
Mostly he turned around and hired the swamp to work for him, and hasn't been willing or able to oppose the Neoliberal warmongering consensus.
But I have sympathy for people who voted for him in the hope that he really would have done those things, because Hillary sure as hell wouldn't have.
Whether AOC or any of the new crop can do any better remains to be seen.
