Posted on 06/14/2020 1:36:05 PM PDT by Libloather
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.) said in a video conversation she had online on June 5 that she embraces the term radical and that what it really means is that you get to the root of problems.
That word has just kind of been coopted as though you are just kind of some - I dont know--loony-tune out here, she said.
But what it really means is if you are radical you get to the root of problems, she said.
Which is why I have never been offended and I embrace that term because it means that we believe the systemic problems require systemic solutions, said Ocasio-Cortez.
Here is a transcript of the part of Rep. Ocasio-Cortezs video conversation where she talked about embracing the term radical:
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
You get to the root and destroy the whole tree.
In 1964 myself and two other HS classmates were taken by our senior English teacher to meet William F Buckley. Our teacher was an official in the NYS Conservative Party. Goldwater’s was running that year and was accused of being a radical conservative. Buckley told us he did not reject the term as conservatism was a return to the roots of the Republic.
Bingo!
Great story btw.
Be careful what you wish for, AOC.
If you are a radical, you are the root of the problem.
JoMa
She HATES this country because it hasn't given her what she wants.
She WANTS a man who will love her.
There is NO MAN on the planet who will do that and she knows it. So she takes out her rage on men in general, especially men in power.
She will end up old, wrinkled, ferociously angry, meaner than a junk yard dawg and bitter.
She NEEDS Jesus.
Tax-dodging phony.
When will she denounce to her terrorist overlords her racist slave, trading, murderous last name CORTEZ? How about sheila JACKSON LEE
Her shallow people have no roots and are self loathing idiots like her, but, they get to the root of the problem, you see. They would not know the root of a tree from spanish moss.
But what it really means is if you are radical you get to the root of problems, she said.
She obviously fails to understand "Co-opt."
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