Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) lost her bid to lead Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, defeated 131-84 by Rep. Gerry Connolly in a secret caucus vote.
Reports suggest former Speaker Nancy Pelosi actively lobbied against AOC, backing Connolly by making calls and using political capital to sway votes.
Connolly, 74, cited his experience and record as decisive factors in his victory, despite progressive disappointment over AOC’s loss.
Supporters viewed AOC’s bid as a chance to revitalize Democratic strategy, calling the outcome a missed opportunity for the party.
It’s great to see the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing and continue to refuse to evolve.
They learned alright. They learned that they don’t need to win elections to rake in billions in donations. They just have to put in a half-hearted effort and the cash will roll in. They really do not care if they win or lose. They also don’t care what happens to us when fascists take over as long as there there’s enough zeroes in the DNC checking accounts.
Why would they learn anything? The entire .world instance, Dem Reddit/Twitter, etc. does nothing but run defense for them, tell everyone they need to vote for them no matter what, and browbeat everyone who engages in criticism of the party during every election season, local and national.
It’s your duty to vote to stop fascism (again). I’m so tired of that message. They can earn my vote, I’ve tried stopping fascism twice now, what have they done besides maintain the status quo
OK, but the alternative is allowing fascism, which is worse than voting for the status quo.
We just needed to hold on until the boomers died.
Turns out constantly voting for the status quo when it is shit got us to fascism anyway!
Boomers disappearing won’t fix this, they’ve already indoctrinated members of Gen Z. The problem wasn’t that being born at a specific time made you a conservative, it’s that conservatism requires a lot of idiots to support it. They’ve bred their fresh crop of idiots, and they won’t stop digging their hooks in until we unfuck private media ownership and enforce education standards.
Why would they? American 2 party system just means they have infinite job security, funding and no reason to adapt. So you can either choose flawed Democrats or literal idiots. What will you do?
I genuinely confused how people expect things to be different here. I’m not an American so maybe I’m missing something, but this genuinely seems a system design flaw rather than anything else.
I don’t think they’re ignorant, they’d just rather support the fascists than the progressives.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
It’s not their fault they keep loosing, it’s the voters who are too dumb to understand that Democrats are marginally better than fascists. /s