How did the Squad get elected? And what’s the game plan to get more far leftists into the House?
Step 1: Find a congressional district that’s bluer than blue, where any Democratic nominee is a shoe-in to be elected. Some of these are natural districts, almost always located in big urban centers. Others are carefully gerrymandered to create a situation in which a Democratic nominee cannot lose.
Step 2: Locate one in which the current Democratic representative has some weaknesses. Maybe he or she is a bit too stale, having been around really long. Maybe he or she is a bit too white—or, for the “he’s”, a bit too male or too heterosexual.
Step 3: Recruit a far left candidate from a favored demographic that is a designated victim group: black, Hispanic, Muslim, female, or a combination of as many of those characteristics as possible.
Step 4: It helps if the new candidate is a she who is very pretty and quite young.
Step 5: Primary the current Democratic representative.
Step 6: In the primary, count on only the most leftist activists to show up in any significant numbers. It’s best if the turnout is less than a third of eligible voters, which is often the case in a primary in a place where there’s an incumbent whom people assume will win against his or her Democratic challengers, particularly if they are extremists.
Step 7: Win the primary. Once you do that, you’re home free, because the Republican (if there even is one running) has just about zero chance of winning against any Democrat in this particular district.
Then do it again. And again. Until your power is consolidated.
It can be done in the Senate, too, in true-blue states. But the House is much easier.
That is a way it may be possible for the far left to gain more power, particularly in the House, even if the majority of America and even the majority of Democrats do not support far left politics.
who is very pretty and quite young.
Omar is pretty, but Tlaib is homely.
AOC reminds me of the woman in Seinfeld who alternated between looking pretty or homely. certain angles that make her bug eyed or when she opens her donkey choppers don’t do her any favors other times she is pretty
Very good summary, Neo. I will add that AOC was elected in a “rotten borough”, in that the eligible voting population is far smaller than in the average district. This is due to immigration (legal or not) creating a large number of non citizens and/or a large number of residents under 18.
Let’s not skip over the whole “Soros-backed media conglomerate” and the Young Turks et.al. that put this entire operation together.
America is over.
I need to invest in land and chickens quickly. But I have 10 years before I retire here in California. Shoot. Hopefully, America lasts 10 years.
America might, not putting any bets on California lasting.
AOC’s overbite actually enhances her beauty. an imperfection on someone who is already pretty adds character which makes the prettiness more distinctive and memorable. (Madonna’s teeth gap, Julia Roberts’ big mouth)
I see an epic California fail soon physicsguy
Very Machiavellian, and a good analysis.
An obvious thought is that a sensible electorate would/should quickly recognize their mistake and remove that person in the next House election. On the other hand there is the power of incumbency and the money factor.
If Soros helped fund AOC as Irene suggests, who is going to fund a Democrat opponent to AOC? No one I’d guess. Unless Soros turns on her.
Except she’s not young and pretty, Pramila Jayapal, the Congresswoman from Washington’s 7th District fits the bill. Ala Nancy Pelosi’s phraseology, a glass of water with a D after it could win the election the 7th district. Pramila is a very radical leftist who is an advocate for all things socialist. (She supported Bernie in 2016.)
This strategy could work in our senate races here in Washington. Both Senators, Murray and Cant\well, are well entrenched, but very mediocre as Senators go. Both could be vulnerable to a pretty, young, activist new face. That’s not good.
I’m glad that AOC plus Three is getting a lot of media. Their policies are so extreme that even some moderate Democrats are looking askance at them. The U.S. is still a center-right country. It may not be for much longer, considering the indoctrination that’s happening in our schools. While it remains center-right we need to try to push it further right.
Allow me to disagree profoundly with Dave’s opinion on AOC’s looks. (This in no way prejudices my views of any other opinion Dave holds.) Increasingly, AOC is on a downhill slide, looks-wise, though she was genetically gifted with a better-than-average starting-point. Madonna has looked distasteful for a quarter-century now. (I’ll buy Dave’s take on Julia Roberts.)
AOC was cuter-than-average when she was younger — there was that video clip imitating the dancing scene from “The Breakfast Club” — back when her face hadn’t had much time to accumulate negative impact from her bad soul.
But, at present, she does in fact suffer from borderline “bug eyes” and “donkey choppers” (two spot-on characterizations provided by Avi, above). And there is no kindness behind those eyes sufficient to ennoble her features.
Nearly every woman is naturally cute when she is young, and naturally less-so as she gets older. But that’s surface-level beauty. It’s easily explicable in terms of evolutionary psychology and human procreative instincts, and that kind of beauty is fleeting for everyone who isn’t named Jane Seymour. (Seriously, look at pictures of Seymour in 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015; did she chug a jar of formaldehyde sometime in 1972, or what? Does she have some Dorian Gray painting hanging in a back bedroom in her house?)
Again, exceptions aside, surface-level beauty fades. After a certain point, any woman wearing too short a skirt starts looking like “mutton dressed as lamb,” and when that day comes, what produces beauty is good character. In particular, the beautiful woman, after 35, is the woman whose soul carries a mix of happiness, peaceable goodwill, and disciplined self-respect enacted through conscientious self-maintenance.
I have no idea what AOC, Tlaib, etc., do in the area of self-maintenance. But they aren’t happy and they don’t radiate peaceable goodwill, and that increasingly is writ large on their faces. You can expect the damage to accumulate over time. For those who know what to look for, the early signs are there.
mmmmm Jane Seymour
Solitaire
Why keep referring them as the squad when Gang of Four was a much more fitting name giving its connection to the masterminds of the cultural revolution and how these two groups of lunatics believe the same leftist ideology and employ very similar strategies to push their respective agendas.
“I have no idea what AOC, Tlaib, etc., do in the area of self-maintenance. But they aren’t happy and they don’t radiate peaceable goodwill, …” — R.C.
I don’t want to get into the finer points of feminine beauty or lack there of. But, I have noticed something about Rashida Tlaib’s looks on numerous occasions.
When she gets amped up with her adrenaline flowing perhaps, she has this square mouth lip curl. And it looks a bit like an angry sneer. To me, it very definitely does not radiate peaceable goodwill. It certainly could just be my perception, or bias; or is it really a window into her heart?
When AOC gets worked up, she strikes me as silly and dishonest, but I don’t see anything like the hostility that I see with Tlaib. I don’t put much stock in any of this, except Tlaib really stands out to me.
Tommy Jay:
” … In particular, the beautiful woman, after 35, is the woman whose soul carries a mix of happiness, peaceable goodwill, and disciplined self-respect enacted through conscientious self-maintenance.”
Ann Elliot from Jane Austen’s Persuasion comes to mind, achieving happiness at the end of the novel, and having the other characteristics you highlighted, whereas her oldest sister Elizabeth, had always been “handsome,” but was without depth or good character.
Now you see why the CBC isn’t over fond of the “justice democrats”- black owned districts are about the only districts ripe for the kind of candidate you mention. Most of these Maxine Waters types are entrenched political hacks who enjoy the perks of being a congressman, do little work, are usuallly unintelligent and unversed in policy, they just rubberstamp the leadership’s lead while garnering little crumbs for their constituents. These well-financed and well-organized JDs will eat their lunch, and they aren’t too happy about it, they’ve already announced primary bids against some of them. The coming war will be something to see, but once it sorts itself out, there will be hell to pay for the country. Politics operates on a pendulum in the US: I dont believe the midterm losses of Obama in ’10 nor PDT in ’18 had much more to do than the public instinctively shifting power. Eventually these maniacs will gain power, and they will be loath to give it up, and will do everything thery can to entrench their solicialist vision while they have the reins. Some, like obamacare turned out to be, might be well-nigh irreversible. I weep for my country if AOC & Co gain the upper hand. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say it might be the end of the country, that parts so alien to the socialist dictatorship might break away. I honestly think it’s not only possible, but inevitable.
This only works in far left districts. If they try this in districts that are 50/50, the Repub is going to win it every time. This makes things crystal clear for those riding the fence – either normalcy or lunacy.
So I hope they try it in every Dem district.
Perhaps we need to start gerrymandering to make sure as many districts as possible are always competitive.
Minor edit: The phrase is “shoo-in,” not “shoe-in.”
That aside, watching the far left become the face of the Democrats just before the 2020 election is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in politics.
This plan sounds familiar.
Wasn’t this the same method widely proposed to purge never-Trumpers?
We’ll see how it works out. Tlaib is a radical muslim in a district from Dearbornistan, I expect her to win re-election hands-down. AOC and Omar, I’m not so sure. I think both will be primaried by someone with political acumen and also of the favored demographic. But with a good or better ground game and GOTV effort they should be able to win the primary.
I think AOC is much more vulnerable because she almost single-handedly turned away Amazon. And all those good paying jobs. From her district. People might be OK with a candidate who looks like them, sounds like them, and understands them. But they remember unfavorably who took money out of their pockets.
That is a way it may be possible for the far left to gain more power, particularly in the House, even if the majority of America and even the majority of Democrats do not support far left politics. –neo
True, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to beat the strategy locally. However, at the national level it may backfire because it makes the Democrats looks crazy far left and energizes the center and the right to vote against Democrats.
Trump certainly seems to be testing the Squad strategy. We’ll have to see, but I bet the Squad is more dangerous to Democrats in the long run.