Why do people pay attention to her? Seriously? Can you just ignore her?
She controls 8 votes in the HOR, which is projected to flip Red in 2022. That means her power block could increase to 10-12 votes in the next cycle. Ossoff is a progressive, I don't care what the media narrative becomes, he's a stone cold locked in hard line progressive in real life. That means AOC controls 3 votes in the Senate. She's 31 and can walk into the daily media cycle at will. The DNC choked out the "burn rate" ( projected budgetary needs for daily operations) for the entire original "Squad" Meaning AOC and her people are bound by contract to kick the campaign money back up to DNC HQ. But unlike the rest of the down the ticket Democrats, it never comes back to them. ( If Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schwartz ever go to prison for money laundering, bizarrely the Progressives will be the only block Democratic block down the ticket who won't go to prison as well since they aren't getting the money funneled back to them. )
That means AOC is lending her platform, with the largest social media following and engagement in all of Congress by a wide margin, and essentially fundraising for all incoming Squad freshmen. And will have to do it every cycle. This is why Pressley, the least visible original Squad member, was paired off with Elizabeth Warren, for fundraising and mentorship and coverage against the Obama/Biden/Harris loyalists and Pelosi/Newsom faction.
If people want to call AOC out of depth with issues like economics and public policy, I won't argue. But she has a hell of a campaign and media team. She's mirrored many of Trump's tactics from 2016 and is not dependent on the DNC for media coverage/engagement. Again, at 31 years of age.
Her economic views are terrifying for anyone who actually understands public policy but the exponential growth of her platform is impressive and didn't happen by luck.
People pay attention because she is completely lethal. She has no idea what she's doing, nor what she's talking about and can say whatever she wants while drawing national attention and no one can stop her. It's the deepest twisted fantasy of any tween who just put down their dogearred copy of Hunger Games.
She's like a jilted typical "Karen" who found the keys to the helicopter from Air Wolf and has missiles to spare.
I just realized Wikkidpissah and I might be the only ones here who have ever seen Air Wolf on network television. I was blessed with TJ Hooker and The Fall Guy. You heathens gladly suffered through dreck like Glee and This Is Us. No wonder your generation is doomed.
You can't ignore someone with missiles to spare and doesn't appear to be rational enough to know not to fire them.