Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plenty of politicians exist who have sensible policies and speak truth to power and yadda yadda yadda. Most of them lose. The ones that one mostly get back-benched by party leadership or primaried out of office in subsequent elections.

  AOC (and Sanders and Mamdani and a few others) tend to be notable because they advance popular policies in a manner that cut through corporate media white noise, while surviving a deluge of character attacks and faux-scandals intent on derailing their mission.

  It’s not merely that you have some rando saying shit. It’s that you can hear that person, you can be represented by that person, and you can organize around that person to elect other politicians with a similar set of values and beliefs.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  common sense

  Careful with that term these days.

  The rightwingnuts tend to call their anti-progressiveness talking points “common sense”.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And by common sense, we mean actual things that might improve the lives of the majority, rather than the racist, sexist twaddle that might come out of a drunk trailer dweller, only spoken by a rich white (or in this case, mostly orange) man in a tie.

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