re: #304 ObserverArt

The AOC thread with her “Corruption Game” posted above was fun to watch.

While I love what she is doing, I sort of worry about her. She is opening up a can of worms taking about things like PACs, lobbyists and other shaky campaign finance.

There are powerful people in the political world that would be very interested in shutting her up.

I hope she can shake the system to its base and cause huge change. She is going to need the support of a lot of people to do that.

She is very enthused right now and I think that can really piss a lot of people off as they wonder where this upstart gets off doing this.

Here are the three individual tweets with the videos of her playing her corruption game in case anyone wants to watch them without going back through the thread.

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One of the interesting things about AOC is that she didn’t come up through the traditional party machines (which work mostly the same in both parties). She wasn’t someone that worked in a politician’s district or DC office, she didn’t go to the right events and meet the right people, she isn’t part of the network. As a result, she doesn’t necessarily need the system and network. Whether the system would eat her alive or not is still a question.