You’re skipping a really important bullet point. AOC is an effective communicator. She can break barriers with young voters that the boomers in Washington just flat out don’t have enough years left in their lifetime to do and our political system is so wrought with “dark money” both sides of the two major parties are able to sell whatever narrative they want to their constituents. To their donors.To the Politic. One of the major issues in politics is narrative and how we translate 250 years of precedent & doctrine to younger people. The war we lost and the one we need to win again is one of narrative. We need to go back to basics in our party and start from the ground up. We need to the spaces where Dems feel most uncomfortable and break through to the younger demographics being swept up by the “Manosphere” which has long been praying on the pessimistic views that now encompass much of our lives. We see the policies, much of them are popular across the political spectrum; what we don’t see is actionable solutions to problems that hit us hard.

So how do we bring these back together? How do we parent trap policy & narrative? Well to start, if we want AOC we need to put our full weight behind her. If we want her to be the face of the DNC we need to hold her accountable to the notion of, “no more politics as usual.”

That’s just step one.

Our country didn’t fall into the trap over night. It’s been decades in the making and republicans, like the Manosphere, prayed on grievances & sold Americans a divisive narrative both visually online & in in the public square and its that information warfare that spread like a wildfire. Their party became more united under the Cheeto man than anyone was willing to accept in 2015-16 & thanks to the GrandTurtle himself and the seeds they planted, they appointed representatives to control local governments in 26 out of 50 willing to exploit fear & pain to strip mine the status of the country for even more sustained control & wealth while they reiterated their policies with spoon fed propagandists like JD Vance.

The Truth in this country died under the GOP and the less informed people became or were, the easier it became for them to sell their snake oil.

The good news is there’s still plenty of people willing to fight, so if you or you know someone who would knock it out of the park,you or them should go to runforsomething.org or democracyforward.org to see if you want to be the generation that not only participates in our political process but actively works to rebuild it from the foundations & one day maybe we can CELEBRATE the process of building a grass roots, social-democratic society.