New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) does not believe that the Democratic Party will allow her to run for president, due to internal opposition to her initiatives and because in her opinion there is misogyny in the United States.
"I have two contradictory things in mind at the same time. One is the unrelenting belief that anything is possible," the congresswoman told the magazine GQ. But she combines it with this other idea:
At the same time, my experience here has given me a front row seat to see how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color. People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September. And that weighs heavily on me.
Hostility to its "existence"
The New York Post reviewed that the congresswoman has also referred to the "open hostility" she encountered from her own Democratic Party colleagues after taking office in 2018. “It was open hostility, open hostility to my presence, my existence,”Ocasio-Cortez noted.
Ocasio-Cortez has not provided further information on what may be the reasons for the hostility she has observed in her fellow Democratic Party members to her. She has not said whether it is her socialist ideology, or woke, or it is her controversial actions, such as when she gave a speech in defense of New York cab drivers against multinational transport service companies, and left in an Uber. Or, more recently, when in another demonstration she was accompanied by a policeman and pretended in front of the cameras to have been handcuffed.
It may have been nothing of the sort, because Ocasio-Cortez says the hatred for her and the disregard for her proposals started very early on: "Since I got here, literally day one, even before day one, I've experienced a major downgrading of targets by my party. And the omnipresence of that diminution was sometimes all-encompassing. I feel a little more stable on my own two feet now," said the Democrat.
