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More AOC: Facts Don’t Matter When You’re “Morally Right”
Hot Air ^ | January 7, 2018 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/07/2019 11:04:02 AM PST by C19fan

Scoff at this all you want, but on this point Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounds more mainstream — and bipartisan — than most would admit. During his 60 Minutes interview with the new House member, Anderson Cooper confronted Ocasio-Cortez with a whopper about Pentagon spending that earned her four Pinocchios at the Washington Post. Ocasio-Cortez replied that being “morally right” means never having to account for facts:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beingmorallyright; cortez; facts; idiot; left; morallyright; socialist
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1 posted on 01/07/2019 11:04:02 AM PST by C19fan
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The fact is, she’s not morally right either.


2 posted on 01/07/2019 11:05:52 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: C19fan

That right there is Liberalism neatly summed-up in just seven words.


3 posted on 01/07/2019 11:10:14 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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“The ends justify the means” is pretty central to all variants of socialism.

This is how a society tells itself that exterminating the Jews is OK — after all, you’re just trying to purify the continent, and who could be against that????

Mao starved over 50 million Chinese — but it was OK: he needed to make a Great Leap Forward.

This is what they mean when they emphasize the importance of being “morally right”.


4 posted on 01/07/2019 11:10:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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If the ends justify the means, then the means, themselves, become the end.

Sustainability.


5 posted on 01/07/2019 11:13:07 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: C19fan

She probably has an IQ of 40..but she is a dangerous idiot..millions of other morons agree with her, that is the problem


6 posted on 01/07/2019 11:16:15 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: C19fan

Yet again, idiots in the media, and the internet typey types included, are confusing their echo chambers for reality.

The only idiots listening to Occluded Cortex are the idiot media types and the usual idiots of the left who’ll listen to whomever the idiots in the media tell them to listen to.


7 posted on 01/07/2019 11:19:13 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: C19fan

“I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” - AOC

“’Truth’ is whatever serves the Revolution.” - VI Lenin


8 posted on 01/07/2019 11:19:29 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: C19fan

Not a moral fiber in her body...


9 posted on 01/07/2019 11:19:51 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“She probably has an IQ of 40..but she is a dangerous idiot..millions of other morons agree with her, that is the problem”

AOC has the implied authority of an elected position. AOC can spout things we know to be insane, and the morons will cheer.

We watched it happen with Obama. Don’t underestimate this woman.


10 posted on 01/07/2019 11:21:01 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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The essence of Romanticism, which is the protoleftist philosophy of 200 years ago, is that feelings are more important than facts. Very little has changed since Shelley and Delacroix.


11 posted on 01/07/2019 11:24:39 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Jim Robinson

“The fact is, she’s not morally right either.”

She makes up the facts and makes up the moral rules, so she’s always right. Remember, totalitarian regimes never break the law because they are the law.


12 posted on 01/07/2019 11:26:25 AM PST by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: C19fan

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”


13 posted on 01/07/2019 11:27:14 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Jim Robinson
The fact is, she’s not morally right either.

Why be morally right when you can be morally wrong?

#SayingAnythingWorks

14 posted on 01/07/2019 11:27:37 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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15 posted on 01/07/2019 11:32:02 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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[[Ocasio-Cortez replied that being “morally right” means never having to account for facts:]]

Yeah who’s “morality”? The left talking about morality. There’s a hoot.


16 posted on 01/07/2019 11:35:36 AM PST by headstamp 2
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Our university system turned out this mental midget? She should ask for a refund.


17 posted on 01/07/2019 11:39:05 AM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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Facts Don’t Matter When You’re “Morally Right”

emotionalism + subjectivism + relativism + situational ethics + pragmatism = nazi ethics = anything goes + might makes right + ends justify the means + whatever works is right

18 posted on 01/07/2019 11:43:01 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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Remember Clinton’s impeachment? Republicans were both factually and morally right but lost the argument. Democrats aruged that a sitting president, a trained lawyer, can lie under oath and that’s “OK” because it wasn’t a lie about anything important. As if he wouldn’t lie about important things. MSNBC had that special about how common lies are and how important they are to a good society to justify a political outcome.

Thirty years later, we have #metoo from the left being used to destroy lives as a means to an end whether the allegations brought forth have merit or not.

We’re at a point where you’d think every third person feels their biologically assigned sex is not who they really are and radical feminists are now the dinosaurs, outmoded, stereotyping and oppressive. It’s like that old story where you didn’t stand up when they came for this or that group and when they came for you there was no one left to stand up with you. “The door’s wide open now whether you like it or not,” said SF mayor and not CA governor Newsom.

19 posted on 01/07/2019 11:43:15 AM PST by newzjunkey (Are we tired of winning yet? IÂ’m just tired period.)
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To: C19fan

She just perfectly summed up the liberal philosophy.


20 posted on 01/07/2019 11:45:58 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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