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Posted on 05/18/2026 10:37:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The New York representative may have forgotten or never learned what makes the Fourth of July special.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has little, if any, awareness of where money comes from—no knowledge of finance, of savings and investment, of creating a product or conceiving an invention that adds value to the economy. She operates in a stark and static universe without consequences and trade-offs, without growth or mobility. There are only victims and victimizers. And according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, she’s in fourth place in the 2028 Democratic primary.
Socialists have been getting economics wrong since at least 1848. There are several reasons. The link between individual effort and reward isn’t always clear. State action is visible; the operations of the market are not. Government takes dramatic steps, while the invisible hand—division of labor, specialization, comparative advantage, accrued interest, mankind’s natural tendency to truck and barter and innovate—improves our condition gradually. The unintended consequences of a policy, no matter how well-meaning, can be worse than the problem the policy is meant to solve.
Economics is counterintuitive. Few secondary schools teach it (they might want to start here). Most Americans learn the value of work, thrift and initiative—as well as the costs of taxation, regulation and inflation—through experience. That’s why Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a celebrity since she was elected to Congress at age 29, can’t distinguish between minimum-wage increases and overpriced croissants.
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Expand that to ‘real life’. Sandy just ain’t that bright.
She’s a barmaid. Who steals from the tip jar.
AOC - D estructive. She has no interest in understanding America.
AOC carries a cartoon version of economics and history in her mind.
Who gave her the lump on her noggin?
The commie bartender is on the ketamine, so...
The North looks like paradise to her.
But I’ll bet she’s fun at parties!
She never learned.
Excellent student AOC was taught by college indoctrinators that the Fourth of July is racist and a celebration of enslaving black people and she soaked it all up and she remembers the lessons her professors taught to her to this very day.
They are professors, they could not have possibly been lying, right?
AOC is nothing but a tool of the collegiate-indoctrination-complex.
There are no schools who teach this.
Except Hillsdale. But AOC never attended Hillsdale. It’s a failed meme.
I’ll bet you’re right. A couple of years ago my Korean American girlfriend and I went to the ROK to meet her family. We took a day trip up to the DMZ. A very spooky experience. But AOC would probably want to hop the fences.
ShesNOT even reading the Cliff Notes!
She’s skimming🙄
She probably WAS fun at parties in college, and if you didn't ask her politics.
She's quickly declining.
But AOC would probably want to hop the fences.
More like she would want you to hop the fence, while she goes to her place in Gangnam.
An empty-headed barmaid with reasonably attractive looks, a bit of charisma, is reasonably well-spoken, and has a Latino name. That empty head was easy to fill with Leftist drivel, so Socialist kingmakers pushed her forward into politics. They are still pushing her forward so who knows what heights she'll eventually reach. It's the same formula that pushed Obama to the presidency.
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