Posted on 12/10/2018 6:47:34 AM PST by Liberty7732
Too many conservatives are having too much fun with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s gaffes and more-than-apparent ignorance of economics, history and the U.S. Constitution. There is truly a lot of low-hanging fruit, and it hardly needs to be re-hashed. Just check your social media feed.
But just deriding the woman belies two errors. One is thinking that she is a lightweight one-off to be mocked and ridiculed for sport and the other is to think there is no harm in doing so.
On the first count, she is showing herself to be a much quicker study than one might expect considering her astounding ignorance on so many levels (that is a condemnation more of her education than of her, it seems.) Her speeches are improving, her communication skills are respectable and getting stronger, her use of social media is adroit — with one glaring exception we will get to — she understands how to use a friendly and sympathetic media to her advantage, she uses emotional arguments well and she is already learning how to work within the Washington, D.C. establishment while maintaining her quasi-revolutionary status.
On the second count, the endless memes and savage mockery do nothing more on the right than entertain, but do serve to strengthen the depth of her supporters and probably expand them. “Look, the rotten old Republicans keep attacking this young woman and calling her stupid,” many in the middle will exclaim. “I want to hear what she has to say!”
It’s worth remembering that Democrats and the left mocked, belittled and laughed at candidate Donald Trump until he won. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not Trump, but not taking someone seriously in the political realm is a recipe for disaster. And would the D.C. swamp really be that upset at someone who wanted to dramatically expand their realm of influence and power? Would they go after her some day as they have Trump? We all know the answer to that.
If we conservatives content ourselves to ridicule her with the “crazy eyes,” we make a young, pretty woman with a bright smile into a sympathetic victim, thereby strengthening her without ever engaging her on her message — which is a total shipwreck for the nation.
Kevin McCullough at Townhall wrote, “…we must engage, confront with truth and winsomely dispense with her most emotionally charged but intellectually dishonest ideas.”
Further, Ocasio-Cortez has displayed very thin skin, which is par for her generation, and a willingness to swiftly move to use the levers of power against opponents — an instinct of every socialist ever worldwide.
Most recently on this point, she was trolled by Donald Trump, Jr., who shared a meme on Instagram. It had two images: one on top of Ocasio-Cortez with the text, “Why are you so afraid of a socialist economy?” Below that is an image of President Donald Trump with the text, “Because Americans want to walk their dogs, not eat them.”
Funny, pointed, harmless.
But not to Ocasio-Cortez. She amazingly went straight to threat by the power of government, then tried to say that’s not what she did when it was transparently what she did. She tweeted:
“I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “Please, keep it coming Jr [sic] — it’s definitely a ‘very, very large brain’ idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month.”
That’s pretty pointed. Sean Davis, at the Federalist, responded by pointing out that the House Ethics Manual prohibits members of Congress from threatening citizens due to partisan politics.
“It’s worth noting that the official House Ethics Manual explicitly prohibits the kind of threat that @Ocasio2018 just issued against @DonaldJTrumpJr for his refusal to support her political agenda. https://ethics.house.gov.”
In this sense, she is not the bright, pretty young lady from the Bronx. She’s taking the first step toward being a Stalinist. (Yes, many steps to go, but you have to start with one, and she did.)
Since upsetting one of the most powerful and entrenched Democrats in Congress, Joe Crowley, during the primaries, Ocasio-Cortez has argued for a broad array of socialist policies, including a single-payer government healthcare system; government-guaranteed high-paying jobs; government-issued housing; abolishing the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and much more.
Perhaps the most chilling part of her agenda was first broached during a rather infamous interview on PBS, when she said “capitalism has not always existed in the world, and it will not always exist in the world” while arguing for why America should end the tyranny of capitalism and move towards socialism.
Of course, she is right that capitalism has not always existed. And neither has anything remotely approaching the standard of living that the poorest American or Western European enjoys today. Just a lowly working stiff in 2018 lives a life of luxury and amazements that Louis XIV, the Sun King of France, could not have imagined. Billions have been lifted out of poverty while starvation due to scarcity has all but disappeared from the planet.
None of that happened before capitalism. And none of that has happened where capitalism was replaced by socialism — in Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, the Eastern Bloc or China, which has seen its economic boom only after adopting capitalist markets.
But the chill-down-the-spine statement was the last part: capitalism “will not always exist in the world.” A world without capitalism, governed by the socialist elites that always end up at despotic communism, is a truly terrifying goal.
And it is her goal. She is much smarter than her original ignorance belied. (She really needs her money back from Boston College.)
The way to fight Ocasio-Cortez — and she must be fought — is not by mocking her ignorance or calling her stupid. That only strengthens both her personal resolve in pursuing terrible ideas and those backing her and her ideas. The way to fight her is to destroy her ideas with relentless history, facts, data and economics.
Socialism is like Sharia law when it comes to America and the U.S. Constitution. Neither of those brutal doctrines can co-exist for long in the same country with the Constitution. The First Amendment alone is antithetical to socialism, and where it always and inevitably leads is to erasing free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and so on.
Socialism is simply un-American at its core. Americans used to know that. They don’t so much anymore, and certainly not the younger generation. And Ocasio-Cortez is now the smiling face of that brutal philosophy. Mocking her is a grave error.
That’s the thing. She beat a Randy Hultgren, someone who just thought he had it in the bag and refused to spend money and campaign. What happens when she has to run an actual campaign? With money?
Yeah and in typical RAT fashion she is now claiming long lost Jewish roots.
She’s the visible symptom of the threat.
The threat is the people who knowingly voted for her.
The public school system has been a left wing indoctrination machine for nearly 2 generations now
Everything about her is scripted, she isn’t dumb, she plays dumb. She doesn’t have an office two doors down from Nancy for nothing. The goal with her is to connect with Millenials, the dems have a millenial problem, the problem is they don’t see any millenials in the upper part of the party, it is all old 60’s hippy dippy dopes who have been there for decades. Not that appealing to recent college grads, they are losing millenials after two years of college graduation. They need to keep some sort of hold on them. This is where Cortez comes in, she gets tons of media attention, she says stupid things that a typical millenial would say/think and she connects with them. That is the goal here
The DemocRATS don’t do anything that isn’t focused grouped and approved. If she was really free wheeling this, the dems would have put an end to her months ago. They are really good at taking out their own, especially ones who are hurting the cause. Nobody free-wheels in the democrat party, nobody.
I ain’t no way tard
Osama bin Laden builds day care centers Patty Murray (D WA) comes to mind
> I really don’t believe that in the long haul we can save the republic. I believe that the *best* we can hope for is that the union breaks up. Otherwise, they are going to overwhelm us with sheer numbers and enslave us. <
Very pessimistic, and I think very true. And I don’t think “enslave” is too strong a word. It will be an economic enslavement. Taxes will be sky-high. And if you’ve got retirement savings, that will be taxed to the max too.
Socialism doesn’t come cheap.
I agree and have been saying as much for a while now. This little Stalinist is dangerous and should be treated as armed and dangerous; politically speaking.
She’s smart like a fox but at the same time an intellectual midget. She has no sense of shame and that’s what truly makes someone like her dangerous. No shame - no conscience - no regret. She won’t understand why the nation wants to lynch her when she goes too far. She is incapable of understanding that level of conception or perspective.
There really should be a test for all those who want to run for any office at the state and federal level. One that weeds out sociopaths like this and proves they are at least holding a minimum of the average 100 IQ level.
She IS stupid. She is s Stalinist. I fear her.
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She’s a noisemaker, like a cheap fireworks display. Yet her noise and antics appeal to the far left’s destructive agenda and their drive for despotic control. She is a firebrand who inspires others to put emotions ahead of logic, facts, reason and the lessons of history. For that reason, she is excedingly dangerous. And she has a media tailwind behind her.
Rubbish. She’s a communist idiot. Pummel her mercilessly, and she’ll ride herself off to the dustbin of history. Her type is very thin skinned, and she won’t survive.
I don’t fear her for a second.
Emotion is the fuel for socialism, and today’s younger generation has been groomed to provide plenty of fuel. Republicans need to rise to the challenge and expose the lies. Trump can’t do all the heavy lifting, especially with all the dead weight from republicans.
We thought that Obama being a retard would keep him from the presidency; we were wrong. This nutcase chick scares me.
But it does eventually run out of other peoples money. Even a nation who can print its own money will still fail under the weight of inflation. See Venezuela as an example.
I know you already know this. I'm just adding to what you said.
Sorry, apologies to BC.
That's exactly how I see her. She thinks that everybody is giving her all this attention because of who she is. It is very obvious that she is easily manipulated. She's a parrot that will say whatever her handlers tell her. If she is suppose to be smart why was she working as a bartender and stealing other people's tips. She's like a broken clock that is right twice a day. And once in a while she says the right thing that resonates with the low information voters.
People wrote off Hitler at first but he learned how to give speeches that resonated with people that had been beaten during the first world war and felt that they had been mistreated by the allies. He learned how to become popular. The same thing is going to happen with her. Her handlers will make sure that she is taught the right things to say that will resonate with people and heaven help us. Once she gets a taste of real power she will never give it up and that's when she will be extremely dangerous for the republic.
Don’t worry about it, the money will flood in for her.
True that. I sometimes have to remind myself that only 3% of the population (at the time) fought for the freedoms many now take for granted. I have no reason to believe that number will be higher in the next revolution in the fight for America. I can hope it will be but the truth is most people take the attitude that they can't do anything about it so why bother. Obviously that 3% didn't take that attitude and that's why we have a free (sorta) America today.
Boston College should be ashamed of granting her a degree in anything
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She went to Boston University.
Exactly.
The Uber-Left really doesn’t care about obeying laws, crazy law makers or anything if it keeps them from grabbing power and keeping it.
Those of us who left CA tried to tell people this was coming to the entire USA if they ever got the chance.
Now they have the method and the will to do it.
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