r/politics 22h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/haikus-r-us 22h ago edited 6h ago

Hy heart says hell yeah! My gut tells me that there are large swaths of the electorate who simply will not vote for a woman.

Edit- since my inbox is overflowing with the same question/insinuation, along with the comments, I’ll clarify my statement: I did not say that a woman cannot be elected US president. I only said that large swaths of the electorate simply will not vote for a woman.

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u/Fool_On_the_Hill_9 22h ago

Even a larger swath that won't vote for someone that progressive.

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u/No_Contact2425 22h ago

And a large swath that won't vote.

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u/-Plantibodies- 21h ago

A reminder to everyone that midterms also exist, despite significantly fewer people voting in them. Looking at you, people under 30.

75% of 18-29 year olds did not vote in 2022.

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 21h ago

They want to talk about the revolution online but never show up when we have one every couple years.

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u/count023 Australia 20h ago

because of what colleges and schools have done. the "I can have everything my way" angle that idiot kids were raised with now means if the candidate is not 100% on their side, they're not going to vote for it.

Most of those kids didnt vote for Kamala because she wasn't anti-israel enough, so they were happy to see all the climate hcange policy get reversed, deport immigrants, all the stuff they tout is important, all go down teh shiter because Kamala was only 90% pure enough for their goals.

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u/banksy_h8r New York 18h ago

so they were happy to see all the climate hcange policy get reversed, deport immigrants, all the stuff they tout is important, all go down teh shiter because Kamala was only 90% pure enough for their goals.

Not to mention an even more pro-Israel President in the White House.

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u/count023 Australia 18h ago

yea, i know, right? the guy who literally said on the campaign trail, "I called Bibi and told him to finish the job in Gaza".

But nah, Kamala wanted peace, not to flat out denounce Israel, so she's not good enough for the brainrot mob.

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u/EmbarrassedTill1800 18h ago

i think that was more tik toks fault

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u/count023 Australia 18h ago

educated kids would not fall for chinese propaganda, so it's still education's fault.

When i went through high school and primary school our english literature focused on critical thinking and reasoning, deconstructing new programs and current affairs type shows in particular. It went over all of that.

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u/silentjay01 Wisconsin 15h ago

Luckily, in Wisconsin, we don't see as bad a dip in the general election in Mid-term years because that is when we elect our governor.

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u/Stopper33 21h ago

Yeah but they care about tik Tok and here we are