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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA round up of conservative reaction to AOC
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/09/ocasio-cortezs-win-has-right-wing-raising-a-new-red-scare/For decades the Right has lazily tossed off pro-forma denunciations of socialism as inimical to our wonderful capitalist system. But after years of declining wage growth and benefits, things are changing: Polls show many people, especially younger ones, think capitalism isnt working so well for them. And the June 26 victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the charismatic young democratic socialist who beat incumbent Joe Crowley to take the Democratic nomination for a congressional seat covering parts of Queens and the Bronx, makes socialism look like more of a winner.
Conservatives now find themselves having to make more of an effort to explain whats so bad about bread and roses, and their rustiness is embarrassingly evident.
In last years state and local elections, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), to which Ocasio-Cortez belongs, saw fifteen of its members elected to local office. But Ocasio-Cortez is making a bigger splash than they did because she won a primary for a U.S. congressional seat in the nations biggest media market, and happens to be young, attractive, Latina, and eloquent.
This last impression conservatives labored mightily to dispute, with articles like Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Cant Differentiate Between Socialism, Democratic Socialism at Ben Shapiros Daily Wire not only an inaccurate portrayal, but one based on the assumption that anyone not bred like an orc in a right-wing think tank would give a shit about such a difference.
Conservatives now find themselves having to make more of an effort to explain whats so bad about bread and roses, and their rustiness is embarrassingly evident.
In last years state and local elections, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), to which Ocasio-Cortez belongs, saw fifteen of its members elected to local office. But Ocasio-Cortez is making a bigger splash than they did because she won a primary for a U.S. congressional seat in the nations biggest media market, and happens to be young, attractive, Latina, and eloquent.
This last impression conservatives labored mightily to dispute, with articles like Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Cant Differentiate Between Socialism, Democratic Socialism at Ben Shapiros Daily Wire not only an inaccurate portrayal, but one based on the assumption that anyone not bred like an orc in a right-wing think tank would give a shit about such a difference.
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A round up of conservative reaction to AOC (Original Post)
ProfessorPlum
Jul 2018
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ck4829
(35,038 posts)1. GOP calls everyone and everything they don't like "socialist". Actual socialist runs...
And they toss out word salads that make them sound like they are having strokes.
Tells me that maybe we need to, I dont know, run more socialists.
ProfessorPlum
(11,253 posts)2. I'm all for that
txliberal2016
(9 posts)3. Hear me out
Thats why I think if the gop are gonna call Democrats and any kind of program or initiatives socialism then we should just run socialists, and have a socialist platform. the hooting oinking swine that are trumpers are never gonna vote for Democrats and most independent voters are embarrassed conservatives holding back progress anyway.
ProfessorPlum
(11,253 posts)4. agreed
especially if we explain it as "things that make life nicer for everyone".