Something tells me it was genuinely scarier being a bartender in the Bronx as a young, conventionally attractive woman.

But yeah, she's got some stones.

I wish she had been the democratic candidate

He's not part of that political elites circle, he's part of the rich kids circle. Why anyone thinks that is a substantial improvement is a mystery to me

E: the establishment political elite is allowing business to exploit people and take in billions! We need to stop electing them, let's instead elect the people directly benefiting from those fucked up policies! I'm sure they will vote against what made them and their friends rich and feel special and better than the plebs!

literally the richest man on earth

friendly reminder that Musk is not the richest man on earth.

he's the richest man on earth dumb enough to talk about it.

Trump doesn't fit in with republicans because he's objectively insane and will disregard any and all rules and conventions to get what he wants.

AOC doesn't fit in with Democrats because she's not from a rich family, seems to have actually had a minimum wage job and seems to want to actually improve the middle and lower classes lives instead of submit to corporations and collectively disregard what the voter base actually wants.

It is so depressing people see both of these as equivalently important.

Unfortunately it seems that some people don't want to get rid of the 2 party system. Here in Colorado we voted no 55 to 45 to switch to ranked choice voting. I'm very disappointed by those results.

Issue is a 3 party system is only going to give us a far right wing party, a right wing party and a centrist party that has to vote for right wing party or the far right wing party will win. A 3rd party won't help. Election reform has to happen first. The only thing we can hope for is a progressive movement inside the democratic party. That sweeps then getting election reform. Then we can get ranked choice or whatever system .

She's already a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The SPA was renamed "Social Democrats, USA" in the 70's.

For young people, definitely and should be part of their strategy and that includes going on progressive podcasts to answer tough questions.

The Internet in general, but especially social media, is a cesspool of AI slop, bots, algorithm manipulation, and less exotic/high-tech forms of disinformation. How about instead of telling our politicians to meet us there we get the fuck off of it and meet each other in the streets. They can join our party if they want but we're starting it.