Posted on 07/03/2018 8:56:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Voters hate phoniness.
And, well, the Democrats' new golden girl, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now embodies it, with revelations that "Sandy from the block," "the tough girl from the Bronx," isn't quite what she said she was. Actually, far from the gritty streets of the Bronx, Ocasio grew up in leafy Westchester, home of the upper-middle class, and exactly the sort of place a cosseted Democratic Socialists of America member headed to an Ivy League college is likely to come from. Bleagh.
This is a dramatic turnaround. Ocasio's youth, hipsterly pert campaign literature, and fresh-faced good looks had, up until a few days ago, been hailed as sign that Democrats' fortunes were turning upward, socialism was alive, and a blue wave was building after all. Ocasio used her ethnicity to draw ethnic voters, and while her ethnicity itself is not in question, her supposed common shared experience with those voters is. She's not going to serve the Bronx and Queens as Jenny from the block, shoveling pork as the locals like. She's more likely to serve as their disdainful college professor, spouting snowflake-friendly admonitions and going green, as befits her real background.
And though she is likely to win in her Democrat-heavy district, the bloom is off. It's likely that the charges of phoniness will follow her wherever she goes, just as Elizabeth Warren's bid to game the Harvard system by comically claiming to be an American Indian is something that tags after her like a bad smell.
It's sad, because she could have been honest, presenting herself as an American success story and calling America the land of opportunity. But Democrats of the socialist stripe have always propounded the myth that the woikin' class just adores socialism as the antidote to the awfulness of America and all its opportunity.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
...another lying phony...
Parakeets in a cage have led a less protected life than this kid.
A lying phony, and a democratic socialist politician.....but then, I repeat myself.
She’ll become a millionaire herself after the cash is waved in her face in DC. Another phony like the other pols from other minority districts.
Rep for life.
Au contraire, mon frere, Democrat voters relish in it.
Elizabeth Warren is still around. The fact that she might be a phony doesn’t matter to the unhinged leftists.
Out with this hyphenated huckster!
LOL!!!!
It's Democrat Socialist Party of America
This open borders socialist is the true face of the Democratic Party.
Boston University is not Ivy League
How crazy. We now learn she’s from an upper middle class suburban background.
And I heard she protested against charges that she went to an ivy league college, by stating that Boston University is not ivy league.
Distinction without a difference? Boston U. Is still a prestigious institution, even if not officially ivy league.
bammy went to black churches during his campaign, and said he was “down with the cause.” He learned to talk like a black preacher. He fooled them. They believed he was a civil rights fighter, and not a privileged liar who wanted to be president.
This thing is running on her pretty face and ethnicity. When the f*ck are people going to be simply AMERICAN!
Ping.
This is a good article but her day in the sun is far from over. The leftist media (which is most of it) will continue to prop her up and tout her as the "great brown hope" while casting rose petals across the ground she walks on. Demographically, she's pegging the identity-politics meters that the leftists deem important, even though the wiring and components on the inside are of poor quality.
In a few years she will be a multi-millionaire.
What? A liberal marxist lied to gain power? I’m shocked and offended.
#Walkaway
This is the last straw and I will not support democrats anymore, forever.
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