{"id":107108,"date":"2020-11-09T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107108"},"modified":"2020-11-09T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:50:11","slug":"discouraged-poor-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107108","title":{"rendered":"Discouraged? Poor Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AOC is having trouble adjusting to the job she was hired to do, and she’s in her second go-round at it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard being in politics and not having a clue to how things really work. It’s even tougher when you aren’t truly willing to do the leg-work it takes to get to the top of that heap in Foggy Bottom. There must be so many people ahead of her, scrambling to get to the top of the heap that — well, it’s too discouraging for words.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/08\/aoc-admits-i-dont-even-know-if-i-want-to-be-in-politics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn\u2019t know whether she wants to stay in politics, much less run for higher office.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the stress. \u2026 It\u2019s the lack of support from your own party. It\u2019s your own party thinking you\u2019re the enemy,\u2019\u2019 the Bronx congresswoman\u00a0told the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0in an interview published over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m serious when I tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere \u2014 they\u2019re probably the same,\u201d said the pol,\u00a0who just won re-election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know if I want to be in politics,\u201d AOC said. \u201cYou know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn\u2019t even know if I was going to run for re-election this year.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The self-described Democratic socialist and her \u201cSquad\u201d of congressional cronies have taken heat over their party\u2019s unexpectedly poor showing in some races, with critics saying the progressive female group\u2019s attempt to push the Dems to the far left killed colleagues at the polls. \u2013 article<\/p>\n

I agree, it is really tough on a fragile ego when you and your butt buddies find out that you\u2019re not nearly as popular nor as \u201cpowerful\u201d (whatever that means) as you thought you\u2019d be and you can\u2019t have your way all the time, because those other Democrats don\u2019t really think \u201cmainstream\u201d like you do and don\u2019t want to just let you zoom ahead and send them into oblivion.<\/p>\n

For someone with a graduate degree in International Finance from BU, thinking everything was going to be handed to you just because you\u2019re you, and your Mommy says \u201c\u00a1<\/strong>Estas splendida!<\/strong>\u201d but no one really takes you seriously because \u2013 sniffle \u2013 well, you just aren\u2019t as popular as you thought you\u2019d be\u2026 well, real life is tough in the fast lane, and the chops simply didn\u2019t work out like they should have. And, no, you’re not really all that special, either. It is tough. Life is tough.<\/p>\n

By the time I hit 30, which is her age, I had nine years of experience in my own line of work, plus getting enough extra hours to get an MFA if I wanted to spend one more semester in school, and<\/em> getting a job offer, all at the same time. Oh, Hell, I took the job offer.\u00a0 It paid cash money. An MFA doesn’t get you anything more than “we need someone to do the clerical work here in the museum\/gallery.”<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s wish the kid well, hope that she finds a job at a good company where she can stretch that graduate degree in International Finance into a job that at least pays for an overpriced Manhattan apartment, and above all, encourage her to stay in that lane. Then her feewings won\u2019t get hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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