If you are wondering who this Alexandria Ocasia Cortez is, let me tell you.

First of all, let me say that you are 29 years old. He is a young politician who falls into the Y generation category. If you think that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is a rich person when you hear the name USA, you are wrong. His mother is Puerto Rican and his father was born in the USA. After losing her father in 2011, her mother worked as a cleaner and bus driver. Meanwhile, Ocasio Cortez was making a living by working as a waiter and bartender. He graduated from Bostan University with degrees in economics and international relations.

Let’s talk about Ocasio Cortez’s political life…

He first worked in Senator Ted Kennedy’s office during his years at university. Later, he gained a little political experience by working on Bernie Sanders’ campaign. His political experience consisted of just that. The first opponent of Ocasio Cortez, who decided to enter politics in New York among the Democrats, was Joe Crowley, a veteran politician of the Democrats, who has maintained his seat for 10 terms. Ocasio Cortez, who frequently emphasized the struggle he experienced in his life during the election campaign, made history by defeating Crowley in the House of Representatives primaries. Later, she progressed step by step and managed to enter the House of Representatives as the youngest female Congresswoman in US history. And from a symbolic place like New York…

Well, it would not be wrong if we answer the question of how Ocasio Cortez achieved this by getting the support of young people. We can say that Ocasio Cortez, who especially supports Generation Z (those born after 2000), influenced this audience by using social media well. Ocasio Cortez, who actively uses all social media accounts, especially Instagram, which is the most used by young people, received great appreciation by giving his messages to the voters with short, natural and sincere videos in his posts. Sometimes he shared dances with young people, and sometimes he became a comic character and tried to influence the new generation of young voters. While writing my article, I looked at Ocasio Cortez’s social media. I saw that he has 3.2 million followers on Instagram, 3.9 million on Twitter, and hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and YouTube accounts. I read that he is already the person with the most interaction on social media in the USA after Trump. Ocasio Cortez’s popularity on social media seems to increase day by day.

As I mentioned in my previous articles, Generation Z had the idea of “Nobody Understands Me”. The person who transformed this idea into the concept of “There Are Also People Who Understand Me” was undoubtedly Ocasio Cortez. With the voting of the new generation of young people, politics in the world entered into a rapid transformation, that is, change and transformation. This change and transformation revealed a new understanding of politics and, in this understanding, a new political language. We can say that Ocasio Cortez won the elections by analyzing the emerging new understanding of politics well.

Ocasio Cortez, who communicated with young people and all age groups, also attracted attention with his promises. His promises include abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), providing free healthcare to all, increasing the minimum wage, making public school education free, providing federal job security, reforming the criminal justice system, and a “Green New Deal” in 2035. Priority was given to transition to 100% renewable energy and to policies that would ensure climate change adaptation. We can easily say that he received the support of a large segment of society with these promises.

Ocasio Cortez has reached a very important place in US politics. Time magazine listed Alexandria Ocasio Cortez among the 100 most influential people of the year. We can say that he has become an important politician who has become known around the world, thanks to his exchanges with Trump on Twitter. Ocasio Cortez’s name has already been talked about as the future US President. According to the US constitution, there is a 35-year age requirement to be a US Presidential candidate. Ocasio Cortez cannot be a US Presidential candidate in the 2020 elections. However, he meets the requirement to be a US Presidential candidate in 2024. Ocasio Cortez may become the new President of the USA in 2024. Say what? If US relations are important for the future of our country, shouldn’t we be communicating with Ocasia Cortez now? I think it should. Announcement to those concerned…

We have not yet seen the impact of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in our country. We don’t even need to say how young our country’s population is. We can say that there is no party or leader that fully appeals to the new generation of young people in our country. There are no parties or leaders yet that can completely destroy the idea of “No one understands me” of the young people in our country. I hope it will come out in the coming days. It should come out. We can see this situation clearly in our analysis. The age of candidacy has decreased to 18, but in the last elections, only 8 of our Members of Parliament between the ages of 18 and 29 were able to enter the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Only 8 people out of 600 Members of Parliament… I leave the comment to you! Even this data shows us that young people are still not taken seriously in politics in our country, and that we should wait our turn with the thought of “Youth is our future”.

Only 1.2 million young people voted for the first time in the March 31 local elections. As the years go by, the number of young people who will vote in elections will increase significantly. That’s why our parties and leaders have to care about the new generation of young people and give them more space in politics. Let me tell you…

Hoping for the days when the new generation of young people will be active in politics in our country…

Best regards…