(We Need) Real Representation, Not Celebrities
by C.A. Matthews
“It’s the real thing!” said a commercial a few decades back. Genuineness was a virtue to rejoice in, not disdain. I wish this sentiment were still true today when it came to our elected officials.
Nowadays, it seems the more glamorous you appear to the public, the more raved about on Tik-Tok or Twitter you are, the more likely you’ll be seen as “the real thing.” Take for example one very famous Congress member from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a.k.a. AOC. She’s been on magazine covers and seen noshing at the best galas in New York City, but has she even introduced or helped to pass Medicare For All like she promised when she first ran for office?
Uh,no. Not a thing AOC has promised to do,such as the DNC’s scaled-backed Green New Deal, has come to fruition. She’s even voted to send more money and weapons to a proxy war tin Ukraine and more military aid to Israel to bomb Palestinians into the dust.
AOC hasn’t done anything to get the immigrant “kids in cages” out of our hellish, racist immigration system except to take advantag of a photo op to cry for them in front of the cameras. AOC is a good little Dem. She does everything House Speaker Nancy “Mama Bear” Pelosi tells her to--and then some.
AOC, in my humble opinion, is a cover model and a spokesperson for a corrupt faction that dares to call themselves the “democratic party.” Celebrities simply don’t fit the definition of “representatives of the people.” Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary says, “Celebrity--a famous or celebrated person.
”There’s no mention of a celebrity being an advocate for the people in that definition, is there?
So sorry, AOC is a just another useless celebrity who doesn’t put the general wealthfare of the American people before her own fame or celebritiness. She forgets her “lines” that she promised to do for her voters when she campaigned. She has zero backbone and can’t or won’t act on the courage of her own convictions.
But there is hope. There are “real things” running for office. One of these genuine candidates is Matthew Hoh of North Carolina.
How refreshing!
Matt isn’t one to take the cancellation of Roe v. Wade and the disregard for human rights lying down either: “This destruction by the Republicans and betrayal by the Democrats of a woman’s right to an abortion and all forms of healthcare is symptomatic of the larger degradation and disregard for human rights--civil, economic and political--by the two-party system in favor of money and special interests. This is why we must disrupt and remake our political system. Too many people have died and suffered due to the corrupt and money-beholden status quo.
”Wow. That’s straight talk coming from a very brave man who isn’t afraid to take on the billionaires who run our government. Isn’t it nice to hear a candidate standing up for the people for a change?
The time is now to elect a strong third party candidate like Matthew Hoh to the Senate, a candidate who isn’t pressured by a party that wants its members to do exactly as they’re told by their corporate donors. America can’t afford endless wars. We can’t afford more of our human rights taken away from us. We can’t afford to keep electing corporate-owned-and-operated celebrities to public office no matter how pretty they look in an expensive designer evening gown.
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Matthew Hoh for Senate: https://www.matt4senate.org/
Follow Matthew Hoh on Twitter: @MatthewPHoh
AOC is a Tool of the Democratic Party Establishment (video) https://youtu.be/XLHxm0Rt0QY
Spending Unlimited https://scheerpost.com/2022/09/12/spending-unlimited/
The Maskless Rich (Are Laughing At You) https://bernie2016.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-maskless-rich-are-laughing-at-you.html
What You Aren't Hearing About AOC's Dress Scandal (video) https://youtu.be/SryNJSASHdg
Seen on Twitter:
AOC, where is that ruckus you promised??? Asking for millions of embarrassed political chumps.
— American Pi: March on with the torch of freedom! (@American3141592) September 8, 2022
Translation: "It's really important for me to spend time getting on magazine covers and attending Met Galas than to fight for #MedicareForAll or the #GreenNewDeal ." https://t.co/ICb18ihfAC
— STRIKE! & READ TheRevolutionContinues.com (@cynthianna3) September 8, 2022
"What Green New Deal? I never said that YOU PEASANTS! Now out of my way I have a Gala to attend that costs more than your families total lifetime earnings!" pic.twitter.com/vHF6iui34M
— Squid Diddly ☭ (@SquidDiddly1989) September 7, 2022
AOC is worth 8 thousand a couple years ago now 20 million plus and no one says hum her apartment cost more than her yearly salary
— Joseph YINGLING (@joseph_yingling) September 12, 2022
WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO HELP AOC TO GET HER MESSAGE OUT THERE SHE PROBABLY ACCIDENTALLY DELETED IT SO LETS HELP HER SPREAD THIS TWEET pic.twitter.com/sGo2ZLyb3I
— Cathy Lang (@CathyLa10001258) September 10, 2022
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