“Bernie’s supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it’s really frustrating to see and experience. They don’t realize how influential they are. It’s frustrating to feel like they are hurting him,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. “I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate.”
She also worried that the behavior of Sanders’s supporters were “forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis” through their “behavior, not so much policy.”
Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders’s 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-bernie-bros-reactionary-left-wing-book-2023-12
It’s socialism or barbarism dawg
I feel Obama was, on the national level, the final straw in terms of any dispossessed feeling they could get anything going through respectability. Anything after was vain attempts to do something/anything (such as the Trump-to-Biden) but I think we all knew the game was up. Crumbs will be doled out, at best, and the overall state of affairs was going to be a gradual decline. Canada is undergoing that now with Trudeau. You could say this is all part of a longer cycle but I think that neglects the other aspects. The world isn’t blown apart nor does it feel so dire like it will be - there’s only the sense of terminal decline and a refusal by anything in authority to take remotely appropriate action about it.
Since Obama, its been gradually more agreed that anything good isn’t going to come back again without one having to be quite a bit more than just a loud heckler. What we do about it (from clocking out to resignation to terrorism to armed revolt) depends on the individual and sub/culture. All indicators is that the ‘middle’ is tightening hard (and with the fewer remaining being more and more annoying about it; to the point that ‘centrism’ mockery is increasingly happening outside of the Internet) and otherwise radicalism increasing - whether just in passive sentiments or actually extreme actions.
There’s few to no one left to trust and this is what happens when we don’t have that. Trans people feeling betrayed and harmed matters in a society that now allows them to have loud broadcasted grievances and actually have generational allies (currently primarily Gen Z), for example. Shifts that could happen over decades (or earlier, arguably centuries) now happen over years, and its actually a relevant thing that Obama can be quickly looked up and viewed as anti-trans. Now, a needle is moved and someone who might have felt the balm of ‘well at least Obama was good’, can’t even conjure up that idea as easily as otherwise. Some may say this is because everything’s becoming so terribly left - I say its because we’ve been so delusionally conservative its actively cancerous. In this matter and so many others.