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Democratic Socialism In AOC’s Own Words: We Don’t Want To Take Over EVERY Form Of Production...
brightstartnews.com ^ | Workplace How To Operate Date: March 10, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 03/11/2019 10:43:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

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INSANE VIDEO! Democratic Socialism In AOC’s Own Words: We Don’t Want To Take Over EVERY Form Of Production – We Just Want To Tell Every Workplace How To Operate

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Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted herself again, and this one is for the record books.

Watch as she explains Democratic Socialism. I’ve taken the liberty of transcribing it below for closer examination.

"“We should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government.” @AOC explains why she is in favor of democratic socialism at #SXSW #tictocnews"

" Ya know just as there’s all this fear mongering that government is going to take over every corporation and government is going to take over every business or every form of production, um, we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over out government.

And in my opinion, we should be weary of any entity in which both of those things are combined, whether it’s through one way or the other. Um, and that’s why the emphasis in Democratic Socialism is on duhmocracy. And it’s not about, you know, it it’s it’s just as much a transformation about bringing duhmocracy to the workplace so that we have a say, and that we don’t check all of our rights at the door every time we cross the threshold into our workplace. Because at the end of the day as workers and as people in society, we’re the ones creating wealth. Not a corporate CEO. It’s not a CEO that’s actually creating four billion dollars a year. It is the millions of workers in this country that’s creating billions of dollars of economic productivity a year. And our system should reflect that. "

Date: March 10, 2019Author: Bright Start News 7 Comments

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted herself again, and this one is for the record books.

Watch as she explains Democratic Socialism. I’ve taken the liberty of transcribing it below for closer examination.

Ya know just as there’s all this fear mongering that government is going to take over every corporation and government is going to take over every business or every form of production, um, we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over out government.

And in my opinion, we should be weary of any entity in which both of those things are combined, whether it’s through one way or the other. Um, and that’s why the emphasis in Democratic Socialism is on duhmocracy. And it’s not about, you know, it it’s it’s just as much a transformation about bringing duhmocracy to the workplace so that we have a say, and that we don’t check all of our rights at the door every time we cross the threshold into our workplace. Because at the end of the day as workers and as people in society, we’re the ones creating wealth. Not a corporate CEO. It’s not a CEO that’s actually creating four billion dollars a year. It is the millions of workers in this country that’s creating billions of dollars of economic productivity a year. And our system should reflect that.

Let’s deconstruct this

Right out of the gate, she describes opposition to Democratic Socialism as “fear mongering” and without skipping a beat, tells us “we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over out government.” Who’s the fear monger again?

Like a broken clock, AOC gets something right when she says, “We should be weary of any entity in which both of those things (corporations and government) are combined” but then she pulls an immediate u-turn with this bit of insanity, “it’s just as much a transformation about bringing duhmocracy to the workplace.”

There should be exactly as much “duhmocracy” in the workplace as the owners decide they want/need in order to foster the environment they – as OWNERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY, GOODS, AND SERVICES – deem necessary to remain profitable. What AOC is describing is literally the very definition of a marriage between the govt and corporations in order to regulate what people can and can’t do with their private property/business/investments. I’m certain there’s a name for that style of government but it escapes me at the moment.

LAST – AOC takes credit for “billions of dollars of economic productivity a year” on behalf of “workers” (as though CEOs don’t work).

She must be unaware that America’s GDP is just a bit higher than that.

That’s okay. She was only off by $20.5 trillion give or take. She’s still learning. Representing is hard.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan; US: Minnesota; US: New York; US: Vermont
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To: cuban leaf

They don’t want to pull on her leash they WANT this to be one main stream conversation, this is how things started in Venezuela and soon the people started voting FOR socialism it all sounded so good to the young people, their heads having been filled with propaganda!!! Well those young people ARE NOW living what THEY voted for AND those young people tha didn’t believe in socialism ARE NOW the young people trying to FIGHT and bail the8r butts out of the mess the socialists created!!! This AOC woman is VERY SCAREY to me, she is getting far to much attention, BERNIE damn near got elected our young people have been indoctrinated in our universities AND we are headed straight towards socialism!! The government has slowly made it damn near impossible to get a job WITHOUT a college degree, they have taken most good factory jobs out of the country and our kids are being FORCED into universities where they are indoctrinated!! It is getting worse now though they are starting in the elementary school level mark my words it won’t be long and this county WILL BE a socialist HELL HOLE!!! We have gone to far down the rabbit hole to turn it around!!{


21 posted on 03/11/2019 11:04:03 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: ClearCase_guy
She’s just openly Fascist.

You beat me to it. "We'll let you own it, we just intend to run it" is straight Mussolini. Hitler thought it was a grand idea.

The workers' councils she wants to use as management are, incidentally, called "soviets" in Russian. That system lasted only until 1921 when even Lenin threw in the towel. And reintroduced money, which he had also attempted to abolish. Funny how this stuff sounds so good in freshman dorm rooms and falls so flat in the real world...

22 posted on 03/11/2019 11:11:00 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

“I don’t think any of us are trying to deny the ability of capitalism to produce wealth. But after that has happened, after we have created this wealth, we should redistribute it.”

- young AOC supporter in Philadelphia


23 posted on 03/11/2019 11:14:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Army Air Corps
the dingbat has a hyphenated surname

Which reminds me: is she related to Ric Ocasek?


24 posted on 03/11/2019 11:15:16 AM PDT 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: Red Badger

25 posted on 03/11/2019 11:18:25 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Buckeye McFrog
“I don’t think any of us are trying to deny the ability of capitalism to produce wealth. But after that has happened, after we have created this wealth, we should redistribute it.”

These people crack me up. And why should anyone actually bother to produce wealth? I'll just sit on my fat ass and collect my fair share when the Distribution fairy comes around and gives me other people's money.

26 posted on 03/11/2019 11:18:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Fiddlstix

“In other parts of the video, which surfaced late Monday, she talked about her life in Washington, DC, as a new member of Congress, calling it “super weird.”

“Here in DC it’s like, so weird. It’s like everybody is like, a spy. Like, it’s so bizarre,” she said.

“It’s like — you could go out to get a coffee and the person that’s, like, sitting at a table in the corner of the restaurant is like, you know, like,” she said, as she made typing motions.

“Then they go and, like, they text all of their friends that they saw so-and-so at this cafe and it’s like, triangulation,” she continued. “And it’s super weird.”

https://nypost.com/2019/02/19/ocasio-cortez-compares-trumps-border-wall-to-berlin-wall/


27 posted on 03/11/2019 11:24:19 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Red Badger
Image result for etl freerepublic cortez


28 posted on 03/11/2019 11:25:07 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Red Badger

Leftist believe in capitalism.
Somebody else makes the capital and they confiscate it and give it to people who are above working for their own keep.


29 posted on 03/11/2019 11:25:23 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: 13Sisters76
This woman is too stupid to breathe...

She is a sock puppet. Her lines have been written in faculty lounges and Progressive think tanks.


30 posted on 03/11/2019 11:28:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ETL
It's an old complaint that "the younger generation" doesn't speak well. It's all "like" and "you know" and similar verbal tics. But I swear it's beyond the level of clumsy articulation now. I keep bumping into people who think they are communicating:

"So, there was that -- you know? And, well, last week ... whatever. So they changed it. Because now, you know, Steve is going to -- but that's because of the memo or whatever. And so you can't, you know, you can't, I mean, you can't ... whatever. It's so frustrating!"

Yeah. It's frustrating.

31 posted on 03/11/2019 11:31:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Red Badger

Leftists often confuse cause and effect. The reason that corporations are interested in control of government is because those in government are exceeding their constitutional boundaries. So - if the feds were keeping their mitts off the markets, the corporations would have less incentive to try to influence them.

AOCs brand of socialism just makes this problem worse. I think many of the representatives realize this - but if they stopped, their gravy train of truckloads of cash would stop.


32 posted on 03/11/2019 11:31:59 AM PDT by utford
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To: ETL
Thank You. I'll have to use that...or..at least part of it
33 posted on 03/11/2019 11:37:10 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: ClearCase_guy

That is, like, sooo amazingly spot on!


34 posted on 03/11/2019 11:37:41 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Red Badger
Dear AOC. Given that you identify so strongly as a Latina woman, and given your Puerto Rican roots, I suggest that you experiment with your political ideology in Puerto Rico. Why not make it your grand experiment? If you turn Puerto Rico into a socialist economic powerhouse, you will have promoted your cause. If not, well, maybe you and other wannabe socialists will have learned something.
35 posted on 03/11/2019 11:42:52 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: cuban leaf
In 2012, Alexandra O.-C. (Occasionally-Cogent) started a children's book publishing company that failed. She still owes the IRS over $1,700.00 in back taxes. It's a classic case that the market place is a better judge of a good business model than a government bureaucrat.

However, in the world of AOC Socialism, the business would be "thriving", though, but on nothing but government subsidies. It's just like the socialist power company for all of Venezuela - no power produced for the last four days and still counting.

36 posted on 03/11/2019 11:45:41 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: neverevergiveup

PR experimented with it.
It failed........................


37 posted on 03/11/2019 11:49:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: All

AOC is a dictatorial tyrant. She wants to control every point of your life.


38 posted on 03/11/2019 11:49:48 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Red Badger
WATCH. THIS.

SEND. THIS.

https://youtu.be/1h5iv6sECGU

39 posted on 03/11/2019 11:51:47 AM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: Red Badger

Didn’t know. Wow, what a surprise.


40 posted on 03/11/2019 11:51:48 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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