Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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But, like, there's this attempt to say their views are illegitimate and therefore anyone who votes for them for any reason is illegitimate too.
And that's one reason why I think it's fueled a lot of resentment and will ultimately end up fueling the extremes of American politics that people feel like, you know, they're not being listened to.
She does self-identify as a democratic socialist.
I think she was a very inspiring figure for a lot of people.
She was kind of out of this Bernie wave of the first set of Bernie candidates in 2018 that identified with him instead of the Democratic Party establishment.
I think that she's still developing as a politician.
And it's very difficult when you're in a deep blue district.
And when you don't often have to worry about re-election or talk to, but modulate your rhetoric to win over swing voters in your district.
But then you're immediately a national and cultural figure.
So AOC basically goes from her views to,
which are compelling in my mind.
A lot of her programmatic views are compelling.
Wins her district, then has her own rhetoric, which to me, compared to Bernie, owes itself more to the academic left and the way that a lot of the left has learned to talk.
I don't mean academic in the sense that she's like a Marxist or whatever else, but academic in the way that she may be using at times confusing language to convey basic points when she gets into like...
The language of intersectionality and whatever else.
Exactly.
Instead of just a plain spoken Bernie, like, yeah, discrimination is wrong.
If you ask me about a cultural issue, I'll come down on the same side as AOC, I'm sure, you know, nine plus times out of ten.
But I'll try to root it into just basic like, yeah, treat people with respect, you know, and they'll treat you with respect.
And that's the way we should govern our civic sphere, you know, and we don't need to talk about about intersectionality to, I think, get that.
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