Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines for calling perennial Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein “predatory” and “not serious.” AOC is right.
Giving voters more choices is a good thing for democracy. But third-party politics isn’t performance art. It’s hard work — which Stein is not doing. As AOC observed: “[When] all you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you’re just showing up once every four years to do that, you’re not serious.”
To be clear: AOC was not critiquing third parties as a whole, or the idea that we need more choices in our democracy. In fact, AOC specifically cited the Working Families Party as an example of an effective third party. The organization I lead, MoveOn, supports their 365-day-a-year efforts to build power for a pro-voter, multi-party system. And I understand third parties’ power to activate voters hungry for alternatives: I myself volunteered for Ralph Nader in 2000, and that experience helped shape my lifelong commitment to people-first politics.
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AOC punching left. Go pound sand. Don’t you have a Killer Kamala rally to be at?
Oh no AOC is doing one bad thing that means she only does bad things 🙄
Don’t you have a whataboutism you’re supposed to be at?
Calling Stein out for being a clown isn’t a bad thing.
supporting an imperialist nation in its land-grab (and the ones that will likely follow) isnt left-wing
she isn’t doing that.
Bow to your imperialist masters.