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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Marxism’s New Stalking Horse in America
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 01/07/2019 4:53:49 AM PST by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

That moment when all the liberal, rich New York Times subscribers on the Upper East Side sat up and said “hey, wait, that’s us!” – Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who is fast replacing Bernie Sanders as Marxism’s favorite stalking horse in the United States, sat down for an interview on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper on Sunday, and hilarity predictably ensued.

First, our intrepid dancing heroine was, as always, completely unable to explain how she would pay for the $40 Trillion-plus price tag for her “Green New Deal” set of proposals, because of course she couldn’t – she’s a Marxist after all, and an incredibly ignorant and ill-informed one to boot. When asked for an explanation by Cooper, she offered only a dodge:

“No one asks how we’re gonna pay for this Space Force. No one asked how we paid for a $2 trillion tax cut.”

“We only ask how we pay for it on issues of housing, health care and education,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “How do we pay for it? With the same exact mechanisms that we pay for military increases for this Space Force. For all of these– ambitious policies.”

Oh. But she did offer a bit of a clue – and a warning for all of you wealthy liberals who think she’s just a cute, good-hearted gal from Queens or the Bronx or whichever burrough of New York City raised her to think the crazy things she does – later in the interview, when she said this:

“You know if you look at our tax rates back in the 60s and you have a progressive tax rate system, the tax rate from zero to $75,000 may be 10%, 15% etc. But once you get to the tippy-tops on your $10 million, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70%. That doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more.”

So, for those “tippy-toppers” living in those muti-million dollar condos with wonderful views of Central Park in Manhattan who are already forking over more than 12% of your income in New York’s lovely state and local income taxes, that means that your new hero wants you to fork over more than 82% of your income each year to the various government entities that rule your lives.

Here’s reality: The Democrat Party has become the party of the rich in America during the first 18 years of the 21st century, as more and more rich people of European heritage assuage their “white guilt” by voting for people who specialize in reciting talking points designed to make them feel increasingly guilty. These are the people who elected AOC, and if they keep re-electing her long enough she is eventually going to come and take it all away from them, because – and read this closely because it’s important – THAT IS WHAT MARXISTS DO.

It is what Marxists have always done, from Lenin to Stalin to Mao to Castro to that thug strongman who is starving his people to death today down in Venezuela. THIS IS WHO THEY ARE.

Unlike Bernie Sanders, AOC has the advantage of being young and cute and able to release videos of herself dancing on a rooftop while she was in college. Heck, she almost seems like a normal human being at times because of all of that.

But the best meme I saw on Twitter this past week was this one:

That’s right: Stalin was young once, too. He was Russia’s AOC, around the turn of the 20th century. As you can see from that photo, probably taken around 1900, he was a handsome young man, and no doubt an idealistic one who his friends thought was all hip and cool and stuff. He could probably even dance, too, although the technology did not then exist to provide us video evidence of it. That “60 million” number is probably an exaggeration, but there is no question that millions upon millions of human lives were lost because of this one man and his pursuit of his ideology, the basis of which is supposed to be “equality” for everyone.

But everything about socialism/communism/Marxism – whatever one wishes to call it – is a lie. What it really represents is misery for everyone, as the people starving in Venezuela as you read this understand. The people pushing this “misery for all” philosophy can never explain how they would pay for all of their policies or anything else about them with anything resembling facts or truth because there are no facts or truth that supports them.

Which is of course what led to this final bit of hilarity in our cute heroine’s interview with Cooper. When asked by Cooper about having been repeatedly called out even by the leftist media and her Democrat colleagues for repeated lies, she responded with one of her cute giggles and said:

“Oh my goodness,” an incredulous Ocasio-Cortez said.

“If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they’re missing the forest for the trees,” she said. “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”

Thus, the promotion of equalized misery for everyone becomes the “morally right” thing to do. How very Marxist of her.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not a monster yet, because she has no power. We enjoy making fun of her today because she makes it so darn easy to do. No doubt, lots of people made fun of Stalin when he was 29, too, and nobody thought Nancy Pelosi was anything particularly special when she was 29, either.

Cortez was elected almost by accident, beating long-time incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democrat primary with just 16,898 votes in the heavily-Democrat congressional district. If the people in her district keep sending her back to congress long enough, she could eventually accumulate power and become able to hold the nation hostage to her insane policies just as Pelosi is doing today in her quest for open borders.

So laugh at AOC today, but know that she won’t be a laughing matter if she’s still on the national stage 20 years from now. Every Marxist monster in history was young once.

That is all.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumwinsagain
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To: ClearCase_guy
Anyone mouthing Marxist ideas should be pushed off the stage instantly. It is utterly indefensible.

Totally agree, but I'd say shoved off the stage.

21 posted on 01/07/2019 5:51:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: EyesOfTX

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not a stalking horse for anything. She’s a relatively young woman who doesn’t really know what she’s talking about and is in way over her head. The conservative media pays way too much attention to her. She’s an easy target because she sounds like a fool. Or because they can read all kinds of scary things into what she says, as if she presents a credible threat of foisting Marxism on the United States. I wish everyone would learn to ignore her.


22 posted on 01/07/2019 5:52:29 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Junk Silver

Yes, you can throw in a young Bill Clinton. She’s a cypher and probably a CIA one!


23 posted on 01/07/2019 5:54:24 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: EyesOfTX

Send Alexander Whatsherteeth to Venezuela.

They are starving for what she brings to the table.

And they can make jewelry out of her teeth.


24 posted on 01/07/2019 5:54:36 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: EyesOfTX
But everything about socialism/communism/Marxism – whatever one wishes to call it – is a lie.

MARX’S exploitation theory:

The specific marxist exploitation theory consists of invalid conclusions and makes wrong predictions because it is based on such a stupid philosophy. It is wrong about:

1) the existence of the dialectic process
2) its doctrine of metaphysical materialism
3) its abstract conceptual framework
4) its absolute labor theory of value
5) its theory of prices
6) its theory of profit (surplus value)
7) its iron law of wages
8) its doctrine of progressive impoverishment.

Marxism as a general worldview is wrong about:

1) theology
2) philosophic ontology and cosmology
3) philosophical epistemology
4) ethics
5) human nature
6) science
7) psychology
8) sociology
9) law
10) politics
11) economics
12) history.

Marxism in general requires the following principles of evil:

1) irrationalism
2) altruism
3) collectivism
4) dependency
5) parasitism
6) statism
7) socialism
8) globalism
9) utopianism.

25 posted on 01/07/2019 6:02:15 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EyesOfTX

Dear Horseface: It is NOT morally right to take money from people who have worked very hard to earn that money and then give it to people who cannot be bothered to work! And here’s a clue into Conservatives.....we do care about people who CANNOT TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. But we draw the line at those who COULD WORK, but cannot be bothered to do so. So please, get your MORAL/IMMORAL COMPASS STRAIGHT. And then maybe more people would listen to you.


26 posted on 01/07/2019 6:18:38 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I believe it is a mistake to ignore her. I think she is very dangerous because she appeals to young women voters who are also poorly informed and educated. This woman says stupid things. So does Nancy Pelosi all the time. She is much more dangerous than Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and other old democrats. She is another true believer, like Obama.

The Dems are going to groom her. Why do you think she has an office next to Nancy’s instead of some broom closet in the bowels of the building. They see a rising star. This is the face of the democratic party in the future. The dems practice class warfare. She appeals to the poor Hispanic voter that do the jobs that we don’t want to do. This is another reason why we need to build the wall. We do not need more unskilled workers who will vote for people like her.


27 posted on 01/07/2019 6:41:48 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Alberta's Child

Don’t be so dismissive of this young woman’s influence, she is a voice of her generation. A generation that is large, and believes there are 57 genders. What we consider to be facts mean nothing to them. Facts are whatever Google and FB tells they are. Absolute truths are dead. The live on social media and a steady diet of emotion and are easily led. If the Left can ever get them to vote in respectable numbers the country is done. Ignore her at your peril.


28 posted on 01/07/2019 7:31:49 AM PST by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: redangus
I'm not dismissive of her at all.

I just don't think she and the idiot supporters you describe are long for the world.

I've dealt with many of them, and my one lasting impression is that they are ill-equipped to deal with anything more serious than a bad cold.

29 posted on 01/07/2019 7:37:40 AM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: Redleg Duke

Hitler was a house painter.


30 posted on 01/07/2019 7:38:23 AM PST by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hence their love for big government and it’s promise of free stuff. People like AOC might themselves not be dangerous, BUT she speaks for and to a large section of the populace, and is making socialism trendy and acceptable to a whole generation. I imagine a lot of Jews thought those Nazis were just a bunch crazy losers too.


31 posted on 01/07/2019 7:45:18 AM PST by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: EyesOfTX

The origin of political correctness. Two Soviets were talking. One said to the other, That is not factually correct. The other replied, No, but it is politically correct.


32 posted on 01/07/2019 9:03:36 AM PST by lurk
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To: EyesOfTX

Morally right?

That alley cat hasn’t had any morals since about the age of 14 I would bet.


33 posted on 01/07/2019 9:05:26 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

I know more about glass blowing than that witch knows about Morals.


34 posted on 01/07/2019 9:07:06 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: EyesOfTX

Almost 30, dumb as a rock = unlimited airtime on MSM

The only thing I see in her is she needs a motorboat.


35 posted on 01/07/2019 4:21:40 PM PST by hattend
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To: EyesOfTX

Everybody is Young at Some Time






And here's Stalin in his early 20's. Hey he's even better-looking that AOC!

36 posted on 01/07/2019 6:22:41 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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