OCCUPY DEMOCRATS
AOC sounded downright presidential at a critical security conference in Germany, where our European allies met to discuss the global geopolitical situation and how to deal with Trump’s unhinged threats against Greenland.t?
At the conference, the progressive Democrat deftly explained how billionaires, monopolies, and the out-of-control greed of the oligarch class is tearing our democracies apart.
“You know, I think one of the connections and relationships that is under discussed, particularly in the security space, is the fact that I believe we're seeing in economy, across economy around the world, including the United States, that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives, in a sense, in authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and very dangerous domestic internal politics.”
“And that is a direct outcome of not just income inequality, but the failure of democracies over decades to deliver, the failure to deliver higher wages, the failure to rate in corporations. The point was just made about antitrust. The United States antitrust is such a foundational bedrock value, not just because the ascent of monopolies create the abuse of power in corporations and market power, but there is a level of market concentration and corporate consolidation where a massive company can get so big that its consolidated power can rival that of nation states.”
“In democracies, we have elected leaders and in massive corporations that then begin to consume the public sector, gobble up the spending, they start to call the shots. And we're starting to see this with some of the billionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic politics and in global politics as well. So it is of utmost urgent priority that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working class or else we will fall to a more isolated world governed by authoritarians that also do not deliver to working people.”
"They are looking to withdraw the U.S. from the entire world so that we enter an age of authoritarians who can carve it up — where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle across Europe and try to bully our allies there, and where authoritarians essentially control their own geographic domains."
"It is our global alliances that can serve as a hard stop against authoritarian consolidation of power, particularly in the installation of regional puppet governments."
WOW. Can you even a Republican being able to articulate these kinds of thoughts in such a clear and powerful fashion? They try to smear AOC as “just a bartender” and a “stupid socialist,” but she is clearly much more intelligent than the vast majority of the slack-jawed neanderthals that the people of Texas decide to send to Congress.
The world is taking notice of AOC, and it’s clear that big things are in her future. Would you support her if she ran for presiden
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