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She's my Rep, and I love her. I don't agree with her 100%, but I respect her, which is more than I can say about 99% of politicians.

That said, Bernie calling her a "very good politician" is not the compliment he thinks it is. Politicians should do anything they can to keep people from making the connection that at their core they are POLITICIANS.

NOBODY likes politicians.

I really don't understand the comments on these types of posts. Everyone is like "she should do the Senate I'm not sure she's right/ready for president". Why? Our current president is an 80 year old pedophile, our previous president was an 80 year old likeable moron...

You guys don't want change you want you return to the status quo.

I would like to say: clinton didn't lose because she's a woman, she lost because she's a sleazeball. harris didn't lose because she's a woman, she lost because she was courting the right wing for some reason. AOC can win because she's not a sleazy right winging neolib. I'd vote for her for president.

I appreciate Bernie for being an adult and helping to boost up the people that will be here after him.

Most every other politician, when they aren't cramming their unqualified, entitled broodspawn where they don't belong, is gnawing off limbs trying to make sure they're entombed with their positions like the pharaohs.

I'm going to lose all my karma. But the democrats don't need a pretty face.They need a freaking platform.

she really doesn't have a chance anyway.She's too polarizing. Clinton was same the same way.

We need to beat the republicans, not keep throwing them.Elections. also our identity politics are cringeworthy

The thing about AOC is that she can bring in the millennials which far out weigh the normal voting demographic.

Her first executive order should be to nullify all executive orders Donald Trump ever made.

Remove that man from history make everyone forget his name.

You know, kind of what happened with Caligula.

I'm a big fan of AOC, but I think I'd rather her wait until 2032. The next presidency (if there even is one) is going to be a fucking shitshow trying to clean up Trump's messes. I'd rather her get the opportunity to be a "get shit done" President, instead of having to spend all her time rooting out Trump's traitors in the government while getting villainized in the media.

AOC vs Erica Kirk.

The brown girl vs all that is white and right beauty pageant queen pick me. I can already call it. She will be the pied piper leading all the women into the Handmaids Tale.

Non an american but I feel like US needs a revolutionary candidate to come back from Trump. It has to be someone strong enough to put nazis back into their place.

It's still early to talk about this though right? From what I understand the upcoming midterms will shape everything else.

A female president of a normal age would be an amazing change for the US. Why does it always have to be geriatric males?

Support for what ever she decides is next, although I feel like the senate would be a better step. However the democrats dont really have a face to back that isnt some centerist that thinks its ok to play with the bully after they have taken your lunch money or someone that is older than Wonder Bread (tm).

I think that plenty of people who voted for Trump would be fine voting for a woman president as long as she's strongly advocating change

These people just know that things aren't great, they don't know whose fault it was or what policies caused it. So they vote for the person who says they'll change the most.

The largest deciding factor stated by people after voting was the economy. People remembered that there was a lot of inflation under Biden, and didn't want to keep similar policies. Of course, we know that Trump's first term had a pretty large influence on the state of the economy under Biden, and Biden's policies probably didn't hurt the economy. But the average voter is not that informed.

The last hope, so to say.

Look at this point you could literally run George Washington himself as a Democrat and MAGA wouldn't vote for him.

Also, compared to the current guy, a rancid portion of tuberculotic lung coughed up in a pool of fetid blood on the floor of some 18th century eastern European sanitarium is a "very good politician".

And the status quo liberals will coalesce like Voltron to stop her just like they did with Bernie.

Love the optimism that there will be elections in the US in the foreseeable future!

As inappropriate and watered down as it sounds, I honestly don't think this country is going to vote in a female president this decade. Race plays a part too, but I honestly think that this country is more sexist than it is racist when it comes to presidential voting. It's partially a gut feelings, but I think gender played a bigger role than many people think in the 2016 and 2024 elections. As messed up as it sounds, I think Bernie POTUS with AOC VP would stand a better chance of winning right now as opposed to the other way around. Even with all of the socialist/communist boogie-man bullshit that Bernie gets thrown at him.

Yeah she should run

She is much better than corporate sellout Gavin Newscom.

I saw this coming a mile away and I hope she does win the Presidential Election to break barriers and to end the nonsense going on currently.

Problem is the conservatives will argue/debate no woman should be in power followed by countless historical references to prove their point. Then someone will show even more historical references of conservatives causing twice to three times the issues. This will turn into one giant circle jerk of why they (conservative) won't listen to a woman when they don't even listen to their own parents.

I mean how many times do we have to learn the hard way that America won't elect a woman to be president?

Look at this country.

It's a shitshow.

It didn't elect a woman when the other option was a felon, rapist, insurrectionist manchild with one failed presidency and two impeachments already under his belt.

Do we really want to do this again when the stakes are so unbelievably high?

Goddamn. People need to get their heads screwed on straight. She isn't just a woman, she's also profoundly hated by a lot of Americans for being so progressive. Why the fuck would we do this to ourselves? I mean America wouldn't even elect Bernie, the male version of her with a lot more experience.

WE NEED TO START LIVING IN REALITY.

I like AOC. I respect her for what she does. But she's not going to be president in 2028.

AOC is a contender and the USA needs sane politicians to lead the country.

One of the few sitting Dems I'd vote for.

Hell yes. I’d vote for her any day of the week.

I don't know if AOC is the right pick but I do know she's closer to the target than Gavin Newsom. Nothing against him, but the Democratic party needs a candidate that can inspire people.

But that's getting ahead of things. First the american people need to primary ~50% of sitting democrats in the midterms.

I like AOC and agree with her on a lot. And I really would like to see how she would handle it. But as a straight white guy in his 40's that honestly wants to see things get better for everyone I also dread the tidal wave of dog whistle reasons the GOP will bring out for why she is unfit.

I know that is the point, but the constant avalanche of ignorant talking points that hearken back to "the good ole days" when men were men, women were arm candy, and brown people shared a corner on the floor with the family dog in these peoples minds that they disguise as honest engagement with a legitimate issue in the country is starting to burn me out.