re: #373 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I feel somewhat disturbed that the likes of AOC are so certain that there progressive activism is a winning platform that they can campaign against incumbent Democrats.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I get the feeling that a lot of young people are not really as tuned into the world as they like to think.

We are a nation where a rather diverse but still somewhat conservative view of the world dominates. Even among long time Democrats, the general feeling is to stick with older ways (especially in regards to religion) rather than a radical form of “progressive”.

If I were to rank what I think are the hills to die on, they would be:
(1) remove remaining political disenfranchisement, and
(2) fix any lingering bigotry in the justice system.

To me those should be no-brainers and certainly most Democrats would agree.

But if you’re campaigning on such gimmicks as eliminating college debt, or taxing churches, etc., those are just too segment-specific to go all crazy in undermining your party.

I don’t want to dismiss her since it’s a credit to our democratic system that she challenged successfully a Democratic incumbent in the leadership but AOC is based out of a district that would probably go Democratic if I ran there and didn’t bother to campaign. We didn’t flip the House with her district. Is her district important? Absolutely but she’s part of a coalition of representatives with vastly different interests than NY-14.