AOC gets 1 minute at "convention"

**dukkha** · 08-13-2020, 04:30 AM

Time – even as short as one minute -- is what you make of it, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to be saying Wednesday evening.

The New York Democrat reacted on Twitter to reports that she’ll get just 60 seconds to speak when she participates next week in the Democratic Party’s mostly online national convention.

Ocasio-Cortez quoted from “God’s Minute,” by the late civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, whose poem was a commentary on the brevity of life.

“I only have a minute. Sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, I did not choose it, But I know that I must use it,” the poem reads.

“Give account if I abuse it. Suffer if I lose it. Only a tiny little minute, But eternity is in it.”

Some people reacting to Ocasio-Cortez’s post accused the Democratic Party leadership of trying to stifle the congresswoman – a progressive who supported independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc...dem-convention

**dukkha** · 08-13-2020, 04:31 AM

Squad? there is no squad -only moderate Joe

nothing to see here -move on

**Darth Omar** · 08-13-2020, 04:40 AM

Originally Posted by dukkha

Squad? there is no squad -only moderate Joe

nothing to see here -move on

It would be amusing to see if the loonies ‘stay kicked into the corner’ under Biden lol.

Amusing, but I hope to not get to see it.

**dukkha** · 08-13-2020, 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by Darth Omar

It would be amusing to see if the loonies ‘stay kicked into the corner’ under Biden lol.

Amusing, but I hope to not get to see it.

not a chance. Biden as POTUS would not have the political power to buck the goofy left

**PostmodernProphet** · 08-13-2020, 04:51 AM

Harris stole AOC's thunder.......who needs TWO token black woman radical extremists.........

**Darth Omar** · 08-13-2020, 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by dukkha

not a chance. Biden as POTUS would not have the political power to buck the goofy left

But doesn’t that risk losing moderates 4-ever?

Democrats would essentially become a radical party.

**Hawkeye10** · 08-13-2020, 05:03 AM

What that means is that the DNC does not want to talk about the Green New Deal. Al Gore is not included at all.

**dukkha** · 08-13-2020, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by Darth Omar

But doesn’t that risk losing moderates 4-ever?
Democrats would essentially become a radical party.

it's already a done deal..
WV has true moderates ( Blue Dog Dems.) but they are not really wanted, and have no political sway

**dukkha** · 08-13-2020, 05:35 AM

Most candidates run to the center in the general election. Biden is moving left.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...derate-liberal
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party’s leftward shift

**Darth Omar** · 08-13-2020, 05:43 AM

Originally Posted by dukkha

it's already a done deal..
WV has true moderates ( Blue Dog Dems.) but they are not really wanted, and have no political sway

Coal miners are just a subset of blue collar workers.

How long can democrats keep the labor unions if/when the Green Deal starts murdering jobs right and left?

Something has to give, imo.