You sure about that?
Aoc and bernie rail against super pacs...well except for the super pacs that supporr them. I would love it if they came publicly out and said that if youre a super pac that donates to me youre dead wrong.
So everybody is dirty to an extent...the question is how much. If a purity test is a determining factor for you so be it (and i happen to vehemently agree with bernie when he says we need to massively lessen special interests influence and involvement in politics).
But if some purity test or third rail issue stops us from kicking trump out of the white house then shame on us.
And none of the things you care about will get done in our lifetime.
Two different issues here.
One - you believe politicians like AOC, Ro Khanna, Bernie Sanders etc are “dirty” AKA committing illegal acts or blindly allowing illegal acts to take place to protect their colleagues.
I have to ask how well you know the record and platform of any of the progressives in Congress based on your premise. My guess is you know very little about their entire purpose, public profiles, and history with regards to this issue. The notion that someone like AOC could do what you suggested an not have her entire career torched is laughable. Frankly - I think the notion that she would do so, from a moral perspective is pretty ridiculous as well.
The entirety of the Democratic Establsihment, Republican Establishment, Healthcare Industrial Complex and All Corporate Interests are extremely invested in seeing her fail. From Ads on TV in Social Media, to embellishing small issues, to fear mongering, to flat out lies about them, to appeals for aggressive racism and bigotry against them.
And this isn’t the 1970s. Everything these politicians do has a microscope on it. Which fuels that machine.
AOC got blamed for “hypocrisy“ because she got a Haircut. You think she could commit a crime and it would get swept under the rug? Or her people would let her get away with it?
Or she would say take a bribe from an Oil company and sabotage the Green New Deal after she drafted the legislation, talked for years about not taking corporate money, and built a social media empire - millions strong off of those values. It is just not feasible.
Second - you believe we could lose to Trump because of a “Purity Test”. You will have to define what you mean by this. But generally I would say that if we put Joe Biden up against Trump we will have failed the “common sense” test. Trump has way to much material to destroy him and Joe Biden can barely get out an intelligible sentence to respond without stuttering.