AOC: Why do we listen to people who lost elections as if they are experts in winning elections?

[Withywindle]

305. The reason why AOC was angry here

Is that in this one, only specific quote, is that Claire McCaskill seems to be acting like LGBTQ Americans and all women of childbearing age who might need an abortion at some point or anyone who might be worried about themselves or their child being randomly shot in a country where guns are uncontrolled and unregulated, are people the Democratic party should consider expendable - if the Party loses votes by having our backs and standing up for our rights.

I think the Democratic Party is better than that. I think it's full of people who are actually willing to be in red areas and STAND UP for basic human rights like the right to be openly LGBTQ without getting fired or beaten, the right for a woman to have her medical care between herself and her doctor, the right to exist without being shot by random gun nuts with a grudge against the world. Georgia is in play right now in large part because Stacey Abrams put her anger into being cheated out of her election into grassroots organizing for progressive causes right where she lives so the vote is more accurately counted AND ALSO building up more progressive candidates in small local offices from the ground up to help us in FUTURE state and national elections.