Agree on all points minus AOC. She knows what she is doing. Yes she is a puppet and she does what she is told but she knows what she slings is BS.
I think the only way people get better at anything (including just being human) is to look inward and do self inspection and ask yourself what you can do better and what did you maybe do wrong. That process should never end as long as we are alive. Not doing this gets you sociopath narcissists in my opinion.