We’re cooked. The conversations of universal healthcare, freeing Palestine, student loan forgiveness…really any policy discussion is toast. AOC on her instagram tonight is out here talking about how Biden stepping down isn’t feasible and she knows how to win elections and blah blah blah. We’re so far removed from making the changes in this country we need that one of our once leading voices of change is the last defender of Biden. It’s crazy, there’s literally no one we can turn to. 
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AOC doesn't have any power within the Democratic party. You guys think that just because we like her that she's super influential. She's not and if she attacked Biden it probably helps him.

If she came out and called on Biden to drop out that actually probably helps him. It rallies the Liberals to him.

The Democratic party is a liberal party. She's probably close to a socdem.

It's far more relevant that Pelosi and Schumer and Jeffries are calling for Biden to drop out. 

They've pretty much done so openly now. 

Adam Schiff is super close to Democratic leadership. he's been on the record calling for Biden to drop out.

There are reports that Obama has asked him to drop out

The liberal leadership of the democratic party is against Joe Biden now. If you're somebody like AOC there's nothing you can bring to this fight at this point.

If bidens selfish and refuses to work with Democratic leadership he wasn't going to cave just because AOC called him out. None of AOC'S voter base was going to vote for biden anyways because of his support of genocide

Biden was a United States senator for longer than AOC has been alive. She does not have clout with him. If Biden's willing to burn his relationships with people like Pelosi and Schumer who he's known for decades and possibly even his relationship with Obama who offered to pay for his son's cancer treatments, then there is no way he caves because AOC asks him to resign.

AOC attacking Biden literally does nothing. In fact it might help him.
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But defending him that much? She is supposed to be an alternative for the Democrats in the future but she gets out of her way to defend Biden aka the status quo. I know she will never be a socialist or communist, not even a social democrat but she clearly likes or tolerates Biden's actions, for her to continue doing this defense for him.

I just hope everyone stops saying AOC is different (she is the less evil neo liberal but still she is one) than any democrat. She is rising in the bourgeoisie party for a reason.
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I understand the frustration, but she's not trying to start a revolution. She's trying to gain influence within the existing system so that she can change it. At the moment she doesn't have enough influence to change things, so she has to play the longer game, which means kowtowing to power until the right moment arises. It's infuriating for us on the left to watch, perhaps it's counter to our instincts but it could be said that it's what makes her a good politician. Much as we would like to see it, she's not going to get into power by being confrontational, but rather by creating a situation where everyone is asking her to be the one to take it on.

Also I think like most of us she has recognized that Biden dropping out is now inevitable, so showing support until the end doesn't really cost anything materially, apart from irritating us on the left, who will surely forgive it when she actually gets into a postion of influence and starts making real positive changes. While it seems like a great opportunity now for a progressive young leader to run for President, realistically it's likely AOC won't get her chance until 2028, and so maintaining her current position and being seen as a loyal team player is crucial til then.
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Oh yeah she just needs to reinforce the current system a little longer to gain power! Just a few more donations from and promises made to lobbies so she can buy into the system even more, then surely she will change it.
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It is what it is, I don't like it much either but that's how she's playing it and I think it's probably strategically sensible even though not very palatable.
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You if Bernie Sanders and AOC got filmed on Epssteins Island. "I dont like it much either but that's how she's playing it and I think it's probably strategically sensible even though not very palatable".

You dont have any reason to believe that its some form of 4d chess. AOC just has to vote in favor of resolutions that equate anti-zionism with antisemitism...
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Wonderful strawman my dude
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