AOC says Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign 'broke my brain'

[Uncle Joe]

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first heard Sen. Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign message in 2016, she was radicalized.

"It was the first time that I heard an elected leader say everybody deserves healthcare in this country by the fact that they are born a human being," the New York Democratic said on an episode of the Vermont senator's podcast released on Wednesday. "It broke my brain a little bit."

Ocasio-Cortez described the indignities of bartending and working in restaurants in New York City at the time, including not being able to afford healthcare and receiving a weekly paycheck with just 50 cents in it due to tipped wage laws.

"We normalize this to ourselves, we accept it," Ocasio-Cortez said of being working class. "I think really deep down, the unconscious rationale that we give ourselves to accept this is: This is what I deserve…this is my lot. This is what I get."

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https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-2016-campaign-broke-brain-2024-5

[marble falls]

1. Raskin/AOC or Aoc/Raskin would look pretty darn good some time in the future on a yard sign ...

... I'd love to live long enough to see it after Kamela Harris gets to be #47.

[shrike3]

2. Bernie's problem was; not enough people voted for him.

I know plenty of people who went to Bernie's rallies. When I ask them if they voted in the primary, they sort of change the subject. Hillary won more primaries and more delegates. That's who gets the nom.

[Uncle Joe]

3. That's the same problem which other major reform movements

had in our nation's history at one time or another.

Change isn't easy.

[FakeNoose]

4. His problem was that he forgot to join our party

We didn't have to support him, and many of us chose not to. There have been many admirable Democratic leaders over the last century, but Bernie Sanders isn't one of them.

[shrike3]

5. One of the reasons people didn't vote for him, I imagine.

That's an excellent point, and one that Bernie-ites never acknowledge. He was not a Democrat. Still is not a Democrat. Yet the Ds were supposed to hand him the keys to the party. Go figure.

[FakeNoose]

6. It doesn't stop him from criticizing us every chance he gets

[shrike3]

7. Very, very true. n/t