{"id":371162,"date":"2018-07-28T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ocasio-cortez-dsa-seek-to-give-left-cover-to-right-wing-democratic-party\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T06:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T05:24:15","slug":"ocasio-cortez-dsa-seek-to-give-left-cover-to-right-wing-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ocasio-cortez-dsa-seek-to-give-left-cover-to-right-wing-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez, DSA seek to give \u201cleft\u201d cover to right-wing Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Ocasio-Cortez, DSA seek to give \u201cleft\u201d cover to right-wing Democratic Party<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Niles Niemuth<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 July 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><em>Niles Niemuth is the Socialist Equality Party\u2019s candidate for US Congress in Michigan\u2019s 12th Congressional District.<\/em> <em>To sign up to get involved in the SEP campaign, visit<\/em> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/niles2018.com\/\">niles2018.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The vote for \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in last month\u2019s Democratic Party primary in New York reflects growing interest in socialist politics and hostility to capitalism, particularly among young people. However, Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s campaign is based on a fundamental lie that is fatal to all those who are seeking to oppose inequality, war and the attack on immigrants, namely that anything can be achieved through the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Workers and young people have already gone through the experience of Bernie Sanders, who in the 2016 elections spoke of a \u201cpolitical revolution\u201d against the \u201cbillionaire class.\u201d The real purpose of Sanders\u2019 campaign, however, was realized in his decision to back Hillary Clinton, the candidate of Wall Street and the military. Sanders now occupies a leadership post in the Democratic Party caucus in the US Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign of Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is in the same mold. Her program consists of mild reforms that are inadequate to address poverty and inequality. Her demand for a $15 minimum wage, for example, would still leave millions struggling to survive, and many low-wage employers, such as those at UPS, are already beginning to pay this to part-time workers.<\/p>\n<p>While she says little about foreign policy, she does not oppose the US wars in the Middle East and Central Asia that have already killed more than 1 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Even mild social reforms, however, are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/07\/28\/nile-j28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ocasio-Cortez, DSA seek to give \u201cleft\u201d cover to right-wing Democratic Party By Niles Niemuth 28 July 2018 Niles Niemuth is the Socialist Equality Party\u2019s candidate for US Congress in Michigan\u2019s 12th Congressional District. To sign up to get involved in the SEP campaign, visit niles2018.com. The vote for \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}