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SUMMARY:The Problem With Legislators in the USA
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DESCRIPTION:\n	The Problem With Legislators in the USA\n\n	https://x.com
	/Rebeccablack/status/1965883778506936510\n\n\n\n	my thoughts\n\n	Ocasio-Co
	rtez isn't shallow. This guy kennedy is wrong. But I wish more people incl
	uding those in the party of Andrew Jackson would admit how elections work.
	 AOC wasn't some great legislator\, she wasn't some champion advocate. She
	 didn't have any successes as an advocate of high reknown. I live in NYC\,
	 I know exactly how she won. The white guy who was a democrat who had the 
	seat\, underestimated the demographic shift in his district. He courted th
	e white vote in that district which no longer had the voting power. AOC co
	rrectly\, very unshallow\,very wise\, courted the latin American vote whic
	h had become the majority by a distance. And she won. AOC is part of a num
	ber of elected officials in New York City or New York State who basically 
	rided a demographic shift wave to success. They didn't need to be great le
	gislators. This is part of Mamdani now. The problem is\, once you get elec
	ted\, you now need to be a legislator who gets results and in the current 
	environment\, that is a challenge. Because tribalism is locked in most leg
	islative branches in the usa. So making laws is a challenge because either
	 you need people from another party of governance to vote for you who will
	 not or you need people from your own party of governance but a different 
	branch to vote for you who will not. \n\n	my comment\n\n	AOC isn't shallo
	w. I concur @Rebeccablack  the true problem the entire field of legislato
	rs in the usa has\, is the current environment means any legislator who wa
	nts to make laws has to get votes from another party or another wing of th
	eir own party\, both hard to come by\n\n	https://x.com/Thetenner10/status/
	1966232498511433817\n\n
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