Posted on 01/02/2020 7:32:09 AM PST by C19fan
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was campaigning for Bernie Sanders at a jampacked beach-side rally last week when she took a moment to look beyond 2020.
“I know, and we all know, that this isn’t just about Bernie Sanders,” she said. “This is about a movement that has been decades in the making.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
She’s clearly a leader. I wouldn’t vote for her but that doesn’t blind me to the fact that she got the whole party to accept the green new deal. Nonsense but there you go. They all feel they have to please her. Bernie is also a leader. He branded single payer as “Medicare for All” and that was brilliant. Credit where it’s due. He also sticks to his positions even when he gets push back.
“35 years old?”
Not quite. Born October 13, 1989. That would make her 30.
“Only the latter part of that statement is true.”
Eye of the beholder.
Yup. Too much alcohol will give you a buzz.
I posted this a couple of months ago..2020 is a throw away for the dems until AOC can run..
Cute but dumb.
I really wish she would run........to the kitchen to make me a sammich.
Slow Joe Biden proved that you don’t need brains to become vice president. Must we have someone doing the same thing for the number one job?
No, a change was dictated from the top down, by Thomas Dewey and William Kirkpatrick at Columbia Teacher's College in the early 20th century. Before this time, ordinary, common people were possessed of a surprisingly high average culture level, based on primary education that looked for its model to the Christian acceptance of the classics of Western civilization.
In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, two desperately poor young children repeatedly re-read the whole Bible and Shakespeare after their meager dinners over the course of a decade. Children of an alcoholic ne’er-do-well father and a faithful, hardworking washerwoman mother, they were so poor their growth was stunted by a childhood of eating nutritionally inferior food. The elder child, the daughter, wasn't allowed to continue school past the 6th grade. Yet she went into a knowledge-based occupation, assembling clippings from all of NY's papers into press digests for a wealthy customer (who when war broke out, turned out to be a German intelligence chief working for the Kaiser).
This was not uncommon. Ordinary people had a fine, middlebrow appreciation for higher culture. Dante translator Anthony Esolen reports about a Manitoba wheat farmer who would recite from memory, the whole of John Milton's Paradise Lost while he performed his manual farm labor.
A founding signatory to the Secular Humanist Manifesto, John Dewey planned to dispense K-8 school children from their classic cultural inheritance, because the American public were too cultured for socialism to take over. They must all be homogenized, uniformly dumbed down, so that progressives occupying the top elites of government, with egg-heads from academia, could come to regulate their lives.
This was done by creating the artificial academic field of study, educationalism, for like-minded agnostic-atheistic intellectuals who never taught in an actual classroom, to dictate to ordinary teacher-trainees in the Normal School system, hair-brained theory--that's fine in practice, how does it work out in theory?--that education based on the genius of DWMs must be jettisoned in favor of "child-centered" experiential activity. Phonics which had been used since the Phoenicians invented decodable script must be replaced with pictographic modeled, "whole word" study of 250 key words, so that children faced with new words will now say "I don't remember that". Mathematics which has been 99% worked about between Archimedes and the 19th century German mathematical genius Gauss, must be replaced with common-core, rediscovery of mathematical processes, reinventing the wheels of civilization at a kindergarten, building-block level.
Young people's ignorance today was calculated.
If AOC was smart, she’d start her own party.
Buzz meaning drunk?
She’d be too easy to finish off as a candidate. All that would need to be done is publish the details of “The Green New Deal.” Apart from her hard core rabid socialist base, no one else would vote for that.
Remember when some of us were concerned that Kamala would be the nominee?
AOC is not ready for prime time. I argue with a lot of “educated” leftists on another site. They try to distance themselves from her at every opportunity.
That says it all.
Good post there. Bernie and AOC are easy to ignore, and dismiss. But so was Obama at one time.
I’d be careful with that. I never thought bammy would be the clintoons nor get elected a second term.
could easily happen. bernie would have gotten the dem nomination, if the DNC hadn’t conspired with Hillary to take it from him.
and once you’re in the general election, anything can happen.
I remember, about a year after she was elected, seeing a full body picture of her for the first time. Then I got it. She’s pretty darned cute. That can only get you so far in politics.
With the depth of the deep state now known, we are one bad election away from the killing fields, but Politico feels the need to get the ball rolling.
The perfect candidate for the ‘intellectual’ class.
It’s a fact that good looks can carry a person a long way. But looks can fade over time. She’ll turn 35 right before the election of 2024. If she doesn’t make it then she’ll be 39 in 2028 and if there’s an incumbent Dem at that time she’ll have to wait till she’s 43. She may look like the housekeeper in the Goonies by then.
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