Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells NPR: 'Everything feels increasingly like a scam'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells NPR: 'Everything feels increasingly like a scam'
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., about how Democrats are addressing President Trump's agenda.
Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 35-year-old veteran lawmaker, spoke to NPR about her party’s path forward.
She predicts Republicans will face backlash over Medicaid cuts and federal worker firings.
Despite some Democrats suggesting a new immigration approach post-election, she maintains support for a path to citizenship and recently held a know-your-rights seminar that drew threats of investigation from Trump's border czar Tom Homan.
AOC told NPR "everything feels increasingly like a scam" for ordinary Americans while government serves the wealthy well.
Unlike Trump, she opposes drastically cutting government agencies but questions programs like Medicare Advantage.
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It is a scam. Neo liberals control the democratic party and they serve the elite. They were never going to save us.
We need a true populist movement. The parties haven't served us my entire life.
Some would say, "we need to seize the means of production," even.
Grab 'em by the means of production
They just let you do it when you're rich
socialism yes. communism no. Communists are just as corrupt as the capitalists. We arent limited to just capitalism or communism, why pick from failed strategies?
Communism is a stateless, classless society, and more like a utopian end-goal to strive for. But, yeah, parties that label themselves communist tend to be of the authoritarian type. Failure of certain strategies and implementations doesn't mean an entire ideology is bad. Democracy failed with Rome, and wasn't implemented on a large scale again for ~1800 years; and I think most people consider democracy a pretty good system now.
I'm 40 years old and I have never felt represented by my government.
A 40 year old would have been born in 1985. No president has been born after 1961. If you exclude Obama, no president has been born after 1945.
What do you mean? Musk was born in '71.
Man, that's bleak.
55 here and it's been the same
You change the parties the way the Tea Party and Maga changed the Republicans. You start a faction and then work on taking over the existing party.
The tea party changed republicans by being belligerent assholes that refused to play along with old GOP leadership. I'm not sure that the left in the US has it in them to do that to the DNC.
State level electoral reform will allow 3rd parties to participate in elections without a spoiler effect. We don't need to wait a decade for the old shits in the DNC to die of natural causes. It is possible, Alaska already has passed electoral reform. We can do this before the mid terms.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
This could be the right way. Unless Democrats cease to exist in their current form they will never save us from the greed machine.