Inconceivable. I do not think Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign platform means what she thinks it means.
Jimmy Dore did a fine job illustrating hypocrisy behind spuriously progressive house nominee Ocasio-Cortez and her endorsement of Andrew Cuomo. To endorse people just because they have the same party designation while they don’t hold to any of your underlining values is hypocritical to say the least, a fraud of character at worst. As Ocasio-Cortez speaks to “… rallying behind all Democratic nominees, including the Governor (Cuomo), to make sure he wins in November.” How can one rally behind such neoliberals in the Democratic party that don’t actively support much of the platform she claims to be running on with access to healthcare, a right to housing, a right to a higher education…that kind of stuff. How can you endorse people that are never going to provide the change needed?
You see, I’ve learned a thing or maybe nothing at all from politics – It’s a semantics theatre bizarre where many masks are worn over a person that was never there.
One does not just take things at face value and trust something is that thing just because of a moniker, or even because it may briefly take on properties of that thing it’s labeled doesn’t mean a whole lot either. Representative democracy in a two party system controlled primarily by money has shown that there is quite the detachment from the words spoken and actions taken, and generally speaking, if those actions taken are things like creating a system that’s functionally a highly stratified class hierarchy, with bigoted laws, and is run by war profiteers and crusaders to obliterate the planetary ecology then there’s a good chance those people might not be so honest.
It’s almost like the people doing terrible things have no sense of ethics. I can’t figure it out, at a loss.
Their words can be quite slippery. Like they passed an affordable healthcare act, but so many of us don’t have healthcare and it’s certainly not affordable. And they have an environmental protection agency, but it doesn’t really protect the environment. And in an election someone like Hillary Clinton may say she’s progressive, but that doesn’t really mean the likes of her will stand behind or represent those ideas typically inferred by the term progressive.
Hope can be idiotic. In the case of hoping the democratic party will ever deliver the people to a peaceful, equitable, and compassionate world is a hope based in cancerous ignorance and naïveté.
But the problem is not just that the two party system is a hopeless venture, which it is, as it primarily represents the interests of corporations and moneyed elites, but it’s that the entire underlying system is fraudulent. From the election methods, to the jails, to the judges put there to rule in a certain manner expected by the corrupt politicians, and then to violent law enforcement, to the laws being written directly by lobbyists, to the debt based economic system, to the social hierarchy within the government system, to a representative democracy being called a democracy at all, to a constitution that serves as much use to the people as toilet paper, to the military industrial complex and perpetual warfare that bring endless pain and suffering worldwide every single day. Contrived egotism playing games greed at great cost to all.
This is the wall of bullshit pressing down against the people and it must be stood against with some fucking gusto. Ocasio-Cortez is a likable enough person, probably a decent one still, and it seems unlikely the disease from Washington has rotted her out entirely before she’s even elected, but it also seems the attention she has garnered has drawn the attention of the democratic party who probably wants her to speak softer as not to upset the moneyed interests, but they definitely still want the momentum behind her. If Cortez is already compromising this early then it’s no leap to say that the compromises can be expected to continue.
The democratic party is a solution to nothing. A path that leads to the same place every year, they just put a different label on the door and say this time it’s different. We know what’s back there now and it’s shitty, like spending all day in a driver’s license office. Boring, drab, yet malevolent, and horrifyingly familiar. The current plans of the two party system are only to make those with power more powerful. That’s it. They’ll feed spin endlessly to try and hide that fact though.
Now is the time to detach from this rigged political system and seek to change the world in different ways. Some form of peaceful revolution has to fundamentally change this system because without change collapse will likely follow. Grab back the power, distribute it to the people, and dissipate what western civilization has stolen. Thus it will be up to the people to organize themselves and prompt the change government and business institutions will not, otherwise the change that’s desperately needed will never happen.
