Former socialist Seattle city council woman Kshama Sawant on @aoc.bsky.social: "She's not actually any real threat."
"you know, where her original election was a challenge to the Democratic Party. And in fact, it was quite inspiring. And it was an actual defeat of the corporate agenda, the pro-billionaire agenda of the Democratic Party. It was also correct for AOC when she was first running in 2018, when she said that it's better to be a one term Congress member rather than sell out, which I wholeheartedly agree with. And at that time, I was on the city council. I was I was exemplifying that in real life because I won all my elections on the city council, including an attempted recall by Trump supporting billionaire corporate landlords. But what I've always said, and I'm sure I've said it on your show as well, Brianna, which is that if you're actually fighting for and winning for the working class, then your reelection is never going to be a cakewalk. And in fact, the converse is also true that if your reelection is a cakewalk, then you're selling out because there is no way in hell that the political establishment and the billionaire class under capitalism would just leave you alone to do your own thing, winning victories for the working class. No, you if you're doing that, if you're actually winning tangible, substantive victories for the working class, you will always have a target on your back, which is what I've experienced. And if you have somebody like AOC, whose reelection are I mean, she could go into hibernation and she would win the election, you know, 70, 80 percent majority with no real challenge. That tells you that she has gotten into some sort of agreement with the Chuck Schumer agenda, with the agenda of the corporate lobbyists, that she's not actually any real threat. She's they're not exactly comfortable with her rhetoric, with sounding left leaning, but she's not posing the threat that she needs to in my view and in your view as well."
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Former socialist Seattle city council woman Kshama Sawant on @aoc.bsky.social: "She's not actually any real threat."