AOC's Warning for Democrats: 'We're in Trouble'
The AtlanticSitting in her campaign office, she says this matter-of-factly, as if bucking the explicit orders of her party’s leaders — up to and including the president of the United States — is not that big of a deal. But it is.
“As a younger member of Congress, the first vote I ever cast was for Barack Obama, who was called a socialist and all of this stuff. All of this rhetoric that we see today has been the political reality my entire life. And so I never felt a nostalgia for something that never existed in my lifetime,” she told me. “I feel like our politics has fundamentally changed — whether it’s for better or for worse is for people’s determination — but I was never under the illusion that we can bring Manchin along.”
Ocasio-Cortez was one one of only six Democrats (including Representative Jamaal Bowman of the Bronx) — to vote against Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last November. She reasoned — correctly, it turned out — that severing the infrastructure spending from Biden’s much larger Build Back Better proposal would allow the bigger bill to be killed, in the closely divided Senate, by the defection of two conservative Democratic senators, Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
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"republican form of government"
Did a double take on that one lol
As far as AOC, she's taking a hard stand for her constituency and I admire her determination. 
Then, ask the voters to vote more non-obstructionists to Congress but what do they do? Either they vote for more repugs to "punish" the Dems, or just do not show up to vote at all...
almost all of whom find her behaviors an impediment to their progressive efforts. And whom she often refuses to cooperate with. That's why she and a handful of dissidents, far too few to be a caucus, were labeled "the squad" to be able to discuss their quarrelsome behaviors.'
Btw, she's yet to sponsor and gather support to get legislation passed, should she belatedly start trying, and it's liable to be a cold day before she does given all the public attention-grabbing stomping she's done on the house progressives' work. Her staff was trying to get a post office renamed to go on her record, but turns out the old, to-be-trashed name honored pioneering LGBTQ warriors. Whoops.
Now, below's one of several progressive Democrats, elected at the same time, who've become real assets and stand out as new leaders in the house's Progressive Caucus, Lauren Underhill. The REAL thing.
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(Btw, no matter what the Republicans say, President Biden also does not rely on Ocasio-Cortez's guidance from the Oval Office.)
Quelle surprise on the bold faced lies about her.
Justice Democrat types have a lot more in common than just their ruthless techniques for trying to overthrow the liberal control of the Democratic Party.
To have good government, we have to elect good people, and we know good people by their good character, competence, and records of achievement. That's really simple. They don't need to deceive American liberals that they are liberal Democrats like like them, just better than the ones they've been electing.
It took me 10 seconds to find her criticizing Lindsey Graham, Clarence Thomas and Ted Cruz.
Dogs with bones... 
and shoot eachother 'fair and square.'
...same here, and everywhere I look...
...of course we're in trouble...the pukes buy a couple senators and everything stops...
...try to tie things together and we get kneecapped...complain and we're communists...
...people are hurting more than ever and are tired of waiting...
...November is shaping up to be a blood-bath...
...shameful what things have become...
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