Kulturkampf

[benji]

They always have so much energy to attack someone who is 99% aligned wit them

People still care about jews killing palestinians, while the trump admin is rounding up brown people, hiding pedo files, funneling money to billionaires, and redirecting money to the KKK in fly over country?

Because everything is about proving yourself more radical and extreme than everyone else in the local social group, not to actually build a political coalition that can win elections. They build social cachet for themselves by attacking AOC or anyone else as a sell out. They literally do not care if this is a ratchet that reduces them to 1% or less of the population. Look at Nepenthe constantly yelling at fellow extremists that a successful political party needs to throw out all its positions for those supported by less than 1% of the population, she doesn't even attempt to make an argument for how this will win votes, that's compromising yourself, it's about being correct, creating utopia and then maybe sometimes some shit about how this is the real views of everyone if they were educated enough. It's not a leftie thing, the Libertarian Party is entirely held hostage by a base that doesn't want it to compromise and so it's most successful elections are seen as mistakes when the party sold out.

They don't care if AOC loses political power, what they want is her (and others) to bend the knee to them. I imagine when you spend all your time telling yourself that you personally represent the Right Side of History you don't really care about winning elections, History is your judge, not the other 99% of the population. Besides, you know what's best for them anyway.