I think she’d be a great choice but we need a white guy to run. I hate to say it, but we need every advantage possible, and being a white man is an advantage. Maybe an AOC VP makes sense, but I’m very worried that the there’s at least enough truth to the racism/sexism claims about last year and I am sick of gambling peoples futures on candidates we know are going to struggle.
I was thinking the same thing. I also hate it. There are a lot of people that might sign on for the progressive policies of AOC, but see a woman and see someone that is a POC and assume radicalism as some kind of default just by the mere act of being a woman and POC, and get skittish.
If you put the same words and policies in the mouth of a Walz, it’d make the much-needed medicine go down nice and easy. If there was some way we could get a nice folksy white guy and let them be a literal puppet for an AOC (or Bernie), I’d be all for it.
We need to run an exciting candidate. Their race doesn’t matter. Elections these days are about getting your base excited and making the opponent’s apathetic. AOC is exciting. While her being a minority woman will piss off far right voters, it won’t be like it was with Hilary, who had decades of media attacks conditioning the right to absolutely despise her.
Really wish/hope that’s the case, but if there was an equivalent white guy, I don’t think I’d chance it. It might be that AOC is such an exciting candidate it overshadows any race/gender issues, and I’d love that, but I think a primary will help answer that. Maybe not even the winner, since who knows what the party will do to put their finger on the scale, but a primary will definitely show who’s energized the voters. Fingers crossed we get elections next go around.
Her. And her name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
I think she’d be a great choice but we need a white guy to run. I hate to say it, but we need every advantage possible, and being a white man is an advantage. Maybe an AOC VP makes sense, but I’m very worried that the there’s at least enough truth to the racism/sexism claims about last year and I am sick of gambling peoples futures on candidates we know are going to struggle.
I was thinking the same thing. I also hate it. There are a lot of people that might sign on for the progressive policies of AOC, but see a woman and see someone that is a POC and assume radicalism as some kind of default just by the mere act of being a woman and POC, and get skittish.
If you put the same words and policies in the mouth of a Walz, it’d make the much-needed medicine go down nice and easy. If there was some way we could get a nice folksy white guy and let them be a literal puppet for an AOC (or Bernie), I’d be all for it.
You want America’s Dad and the Fun Aunt?
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We need to run an exciting candidate. Their race doesn’t matter. Elections these days are about getting your base excited and making the opponent’s apathetic. AOC is exciting. While her being a minority woman will piss off far right voters, it won’t be like it was with Hilary, who had decades of media attacks conditioning the right to absolutely despise her.
Really wish/hope that’s the case, but if there was an equivalent white guy, I don’t think I’d chance it. It might be that AOC is such an exciting candidate it overshadows any race/gender issues, and I’d love that, but I think a primary will help answer that. Maybe not even the winner, since who knows what the party will do to put their finger on the scale, but a primary will definitely show who’s energized the voters. Fingers crossed we get elections next go around.
I’m tired of this comment.
If we look for entertainers to become leaders, we get a trump. If we look for legislators, they’re not sexy.
If the populace needs a clown to vote for, then let’s stop messing about and secede already.