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My advice as a long time activist, radical thinker, and organizer is simple, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves!" The idea that we should be looking ahead four years, without setting an agenda and/or plan to advance new or popular faces, is short sighted and over ambitious. AOC would even agree, particularly since she is so in tune to the D.C. political dynamic and class nature of the power cabal, and she too is committed to organizing from the bottom up. The U.S. has a long history of sidelining working class advocates, if not through political denigration and scandal or assassination, then through overwhelming financial expenditure in massive media blasts. Just look at the recent results of the duopoly show, and, the racist dig directed at AOC about the classic U.S. colony being an island of garbage, an intentional social media blast to signal the threat to the "cultural norms" of the U.S. colonial order. We live in a class society, ruled by the 1% cabal of billionaires, linked as heirs of the slave masters and feudal lords of the past, a contemporary "Roman Empire" that guards its war booty religiously and selfishly. In the final analysis, if the "progressives" can't detach from either ruling class duopoly party, with a movement that can fill stadiums as the pro sport corporations do now, what makes anyone think that a working class woman can be successful in the empire's presidency? AOC would probably say clearly on this day, "Let's get our feet on the ground, and affect change through a working class movement, advocate for our place at the table, and, take on the racist cabal that controls this government!" The fight is for the future generation and their survival, not for a presidency.

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