?AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly?

Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, Black Agenda Report has been the most consistent voice on the Left sounding the alarm about Democratic Party bankruptcy. The late founder and executive editor of the publication, Glen Ford, rightly called the Democratic Party the more effective evil serving the Lords of Capital in their reign of terror against the working class and oppressed masses.

It was impossible to predict, however, that the reign of Barack Obama would precipitate a crisis of legitimacy in the two-party duopoly after his diligent service to the Lords of Capital had reduced much of the Left in the United States to a state of political stagnation.

???One member of the Squad who has ripped whatever mask was left hanging on the Democratic Party is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). AOC has done a masterful job bursting asunder whatever illusions existed that the Democratic Party can operate as anything other than an engine for war and austerity.???

!!!However, others on the Left questioned why the self-described "democratic socialist" would tout a message already popular with majorities of the country instead of expressing solidarity with Black Lives Matter activists protesting outside of the Gala or, better yet, taking more meaningful action to pressure Medicare for All and the rest of the Squad's so-called progressive agenda.!!!

Well that's what her calling from a manufactured agenda was for. Being backed by a fake socialist group (DSA) and a fake socialist magazine (Jacobin) which is highly tied together, the agenda is to corral disgruntle democratic and socialist supporters back to that party who supported the fake socialist Sanders. The goal is to wipe out any sense of socialistic support and make socialism a bad word again.

Answer me this Batman. Have you ever heard AOC say the word socialist? How often has she mentioned the DSA? How about her referring to a Jacobin article to direct her supporters to what might give them hindsight to the true nature of these 2 entities?

When you actually put critical thought into articles from the Jacobin, over time you begin to see that their bottom line leads to a contradiction of their spoken agenda which always benefits corporations. And if you do meaningful research of the group and magazine, you'll find they are deeply connected to the political establishment. They're virtually just an arm of the democratic party.

{AOC followed up this act by changing her vote on $1 billion in additional U.S. funding for Israel's Iron Dome from "nay" to "present." The sudden decision appeared to be encouraged by House speaker Nancy Pelosi. Photos went viral of AOC visibly in tears following an encounter with Pelosi on the floor of the House. AOC has routinely coined herself a champion of human rights for the Palestinian people yet abdicated her responsibility to oppose additional funding to the settler colonial regime currently colonizing Palestine. To make matters worse, AOC painted herself as the victim in her response to the backlash by insinuating that a climate of “volatility” forced her to make a decision in haste. She did not, however, apologize to the Palestinian people and their allies for the vote.}

This has been her constant deception since winning her seat. She is simply what Ron and Rand Paul as libertarians have been for their supporters within the republican party all these years from within the democratic party. Occasional hyperbole speak to block a vote to only support or vote present. As someone who worked in Ted Kennedy's office of immigration and foreign affairs, where the fuck is her experiences in helping to solve the border issue? Biden and Harris are Trump on steroids and she's silent!

{AOC has tacitly supported imperialism by regurgitating the State Department's narrative of humanitarian imperialism on nearly every major instance of U.S. aggression. She has labeled Venezuela a "failed state" but has yet to demand an end to U.S. sanctions under Joe Biden. On Palestine, AOC has offered a variety of word salads when questioned on her opposition to Israeli colonialism.}

As having a history within foreign affairs, you know dam well what these sanctions do to other countries. In regards to Venezuela, you're either aware and speak out against them or you're collaborate with the false narratives. Israel, of course, your beholden to speak your mind based on your opinions or again, collaborate with the establishment. Israel owns her just like all the rest of them.

???AOC refused to force a vote on Medicare for All in exchange for Nancy Pelosi’s House Speaker vote and even suggested that Jimmy Dore and others who demanded that she do so were engaging in violence.???

Furthermore, AOC and the rest of the Democratic Party has been unwilling to take the streets to oppose the Biden administration’s mass deportation of undocumented immigrants , privatization of the Postal Service , and abandonment of police reform but has been more than willing to call Joe Biden a “good faith” partner in the Democratic Party.

{The Democratic Party remains the more effective evil of U.S. imperialism—a system which only independent, grassroots political organization can defeat.}

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