JohnRawls wrote:He is not a classical leftist also. I guess he is centre-left which kinda puts him where AOC is but not perhaps as far as Bernie Sanders is actually. Although I am unclear how far to the left Sanders is so I would say Navalny is Russian AOC policy wise. He was against increase in retirement age and wants to have education at least free. Healthcare free if possible but he is kinda not sure. He has similar views on Green energy as AOC has also. He is also pro-immigration. I guess AOC was a good example.
AOC? You mean the Puerto Rican one from the Bronx? She identified herself as a Democratic Socialist the same as Bernie Sanders. She never said a damn thing against immigrant people and in fact advocates for abolishing ICE from her district 14 NYC neighborhood. She is pro independence for Puerto Rico, and she raised her own money for her campaign through grassroots and pounding the pavement. She won against a liberal sellout Democrat asshole like Crowley, she takes on banking interests and Zuckerberg, she is hounded by Fox and so on reporting, she believes in the New Green Deal, and wants to tax billionaires and millionaires and Wall Street, and she got verbally assaulted by that Yahoo Yoho....etc etc. She is young and being the decent Economics major that she is? Made up her mind for socialism early. Like I did. She is unlikely to be found screaming about nationalist bullshit videos from far in her short life past.
She was the target of those racist pro Trump violent freaks and thought about taking her high heels and making a run for it to survive that attack in Katie Porter's office.
No, she has nothing in common with Alexey a liberal guy (who says he is a liberal), yet Heisenberg sees some contradiction there. I feel sorry for his physical torture and his isolation and the Russian state poisoning him. But he is not AOC John Rawls.
My Puerto Rican socialist women have zero in common with an Alexey dude with issues in the Russian Federation.