Good grief, AOC is the near-opposite of "progressive" or "left." She's the reactionary Twitter-brained millennial analog to the angry, finger-pointing Ann Coulter. Adolph Reed called this new breed of "activist" the phony left flank of the corporate neoliberal movement, or something to that effect, and that was putting it incredibly kindly.
I've really enjoyed your reporting on the NYC mayoral race. Your dust-up with Morales on Twitter in the last day or so was entertaining, and her absolute inability to answer with anything other than bland IdPol talking points is indicative of part of what's destroyed this "new left," but the rich, privileged white kids answering her and telling her definitively what "the left" wants and is, is just as indicative of this total annihilation.
AOC, her compatriots, her followers and the phony movement that's sprung up around them are the ultimate destruction of the 2016 Sanders' movement, and until people recognize that, it's moving in reverse.
Good piece, AOC's lack of deep involvement in local politics always strikes me as odd since she clearly can sway many voters, and people will easily forget loses. More data is needed but Wiley won some rather scattered spots in central/eastern Queens that I'm curious if that was AOC or MSNBC voters, cause if it's the former could layout some groundwork for newer spaces for the left to reach this coming decade.
Dear Ross, I like what you write but you are missing the historical context of the leftist movement.
You need to accept that the European and South American Socialist have been in New York for a long time (they did not want to be known but they were in clubs in New York.) Elizabeth Caputo (candidate for Manhattan BP) can tell you we meet in 2000 at DL21c.
Also, what you have to acknowledge are the 5 Internationals, and their split in 1879 (1 with 2), in 1920 (2 with 3), in 1938 (3 with 4), and then a call for the Fifth by Larouche, and other. Finally in 2003, many Anti-Capitalists after that with Castro and Chavez.
As you know, until DSA was 2nd International (Socialist International) but since 2017, they left and were taken by the now defunct ISO.
Now we are starting SDA and you can find the Manifesto here.
Good grief, AOC is the near-opposite of "progressive" or "left." She's the reactionary Twitter-brained millennial analog to the angry, finger-pointing Ann Coulter. Adolph Reed called this new breed of "activist" the phony left flank of the corporate neoliberal movement, or something to that effect, and that was putting it incredibly kindly.
I've really enjoyed your reporting on the NYC mayoral race. Your dust-up with Morales on Twitter in the last day or so was entertaining, and her absolute inability to answer with anything other than bland IdPol talking points is indicative of part of what's destroyed this "new left," but the rich, privileged white kids answering her and telling her definitively what "the left" wants and is, is just as indicative of this total annihilation.
AOC, her compatriots, her followers and the phony movement that's sprung up around them are the ultimate destruction of the 2016 Sanders' movement, and until people recognize that, it's moving in reverse.
Good piece, AOC's lack of deep involvement in local politics always strikes me as odd since she clearly can sway many voters, and people will easily forget loses. More data is needed but Wiley won some rather scattered spots in central/eastern Queens that I'm curious if that was AOC or MSNBC voters, cause if it's the former could layout some groundwork for newer spaces for the left to reach this coming decade.
Dear Ross, I like what you write but you are missing the historical context of the leftist movement.
You need to accept that the European and South American Socialist have been in New York for a long time (they did not want to be known but they were in clubs in New York.) Elizabeth Caputo (candidate for Manhattan BP) can tell you we meet in 2000 at DL21c.
Also, what you have to acknowledge are the 5 Internationals, and their split in 1879 (1 with 2), in 1920 (2 with 3), in 1938 (3 with 4), and then a call for the Fifth by Larouche, and other. Finally in 2003, many Anti-Capitalists after that with Castro and Chavez.
As you know, until DSA was 2nd International (Socialist International) but since 2017, they left and were taken by the now defunct ISO.
Now we are starting SDA and you can find the Manifesto here.
https://www.socialists.us/docs/STATEMENT_ON_SDA.pdf
The left is not very complicated. It's just 5 different parties with 5 different ideologies.
Ross Barkan is one the best political writers in NYC!!!