I love AOC, but....

[EnergizedLib]

Will one of her Democratic colleagues please pull her aside and tell her now is not the time to advocate for eliminating the filibuster when our side controls nothing in Washington? If they do it, they do it, but we should have no part in that.

Let those states with blue trifectas go on offense. Washington will pass the voter suppression bill and who knows what other nasty stuff.

When we get the trifecta in Washington back, *then* go on offense. Until then, the blue governors and blue legislatures need to go on offense, draw MAGA into oblivion, while Washington Dems play defense at least until we win one or both houses of in Congress in November.

If you’re a constituent of hers, I’d encourage you call or email her office.

I do not want us as a party to outsmart ourselves.

[murielm99]

1. I could get myself in trouble here,

but I don't love her at all. This just shows her lack of experience. She should stay in Washington and not gallivant around the country. She could learn from some more experienced Democrats.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. She is on the right track

I hope she makes killing the filibuster a centrepiece of her 2028 Senate campaign for Schumer’s seat.

[EnergizedLib]

3. For now, or then?

Because I’m fine with running on it in 2028, certainly with nuking it if we get a trifecta in 2029, just don’t think it’s the best idea while they have it here in 2026.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. I would say she is foreshadowing the future

Certainly it must be top priority for 2029, when she will be the next senator from New York.

[mr715]

5. She is broadcasting her stance for when she runs to replace Schumer.

[EnergizedLib]

7. Is there not a difference

Between running on abolishing the filibuster when running for Senate and daring Republicans *now* to abolish?

[Sympthsical]

6. The last twenty years of my life haven't been "the time"

I've come to realize in middle age that other people's clocks are highly cautious and fearful creatures that will never reach the appointed hour. Like a Lorentz factor calculated in anxiety.

Someone has to advocate for change or there will not be change.

She's planting her flag.

Let it be a beacon for the next twenty years as the old guard sloughs off like so much necrotic political tissue.