On The Demonization Of Opposition

This week, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made her first major overseas trip to Germany, attending the Munich Security Conference in Munich where she made a series of blunders. There, she participated in panels on populism and foreign policy, advocated for working-class priorities, and reassured European allies amid transatlantic tensions.

Democrats like Gavin Newsom, Hillary Clinton, and AOC, have been very busy lately. From Davos to Munich they've been actively undermining US foreign relations by reinforcing the liberal deep state. Going from event to event doing damage control to trying to reassure their comrades that the current President doesn't actually speak for or run our country. Everything they do is an attempt to delegitimize the current US government that they are supposed to be working for.

Post by m. stanfield @resetbasis:

"My issue with AOC is not that she said Venezuela is below the equator. People make mistakes.

I don’t care that she was a bartender. Plenty of smart people do all kinds of jobs to make ends meet.

I don’t care that she fumbled for words and looked foolish on camera. She was unprepared and probably shouldn’t have been there, but whatever.

My issue is that she frames any opposition to her views as fundamentally dangerous, flawed, and un-American. The presupposition that she and her ilk are “default right” and people who have a different view are horrible is a dangerous and disingenuous precedent.

There was a time when people could debate and respectfully disagree, but that’s been lost by both sides of the aisle over the last ten years. Social media has given rise to radical positions to capture eyeballs and voters, and it’s a net-negative for the public. She understands social media better than most and uses it to her advantage, regardless of the consequences.

I’d bet there are a lot of things she and I would agree on, but if I disagree with a strong position, I’m cast as “right-wing.” If you disagree with her or people like her, the smart thing is to let the easy pitches go by. Don’t give her shit for geography, fumbling for words, or her working class background. You end up looking like an elitist asshole and your point gets lost in the noise.

Stick to the fundamental problems with certain policies you disagree with and state that position clearly. You’ll probably get the change you want, though it will mean you miss the short-term satisfaction of dunking on someone."