Re: Hate for new progressives
No, that is a misunderstanding. My hate-boner is for the oldschool democrats, who I have seen beat "racial inequality", "Public healthcare", and co, like they were dead horses for the better part of 4 decades now.
New kids on the block? They haven't had time to show their stripes, but given how the old vanguard seems to cringe and make grimmacing faces at the new kids, whenever they propose legislation that at least has the potential to actually fix things for the better, I am hopeful for them.
My beef is with politicians that get on their soapbox, and proclaim 'Vote for me, and I will make all the bad things go away!', who then get voted in, and then go to tea, or go and play golf with the bloated corpulent shitbags who feel they might get dirty if they get within 5 feet of a disgusting prole. (you know, the GOP), then vote in ways that are 180 degrees against what their election platform was, and maneuver exclusively within the domain of "Say and do whatever gets me re-elected."
AOC and pals have not been in office long enough to show that, and so far have not demonstrated a propensity for that.
Your misunderstanding comes from conflating my statement about usurper types (Which the oldschool vanguard Dems totally are-- See also, how they rode the civil rights movement, but did not really accomplish a whole lot except get re-elected a bunch of times, and make lots of industry connections to get stupid rich with.) with "new progressives."