- Well she has achieved “recognition by initials” status. Sort of like J Lo, only not as smart. But we suspect as much a reason for the initials status is nobody likes typing out her full name all of the time.
- So upon reflection, Ms Cortez is valuable, make that, “Upon reflection, Ms (ing)
Cortex is valuable” - Then again she reflects a sad level of cultural intelligence, dangerously overlapping more than her generation
- We conclude with a hopeful article by someone of AOC’s age group
Anyway we agree with the maxim “don’t interfere when your political enemies are shooting themselves in the foot.” But that does not mean disregard the absurdities or not comment on them. The points above are well made by commentaries from the luminaries at Townhall and, even if apocryphal, from over the internet transom.
After pointing out the nonsense of AOC claiming the US is running “concentration camps” at the border, David Limbaugh in his article Please Don’t Shut Up, AOC concludes: (excerpt)
But here’s the good news. AOC is unteachable, because she is unwilling to be taught. Full of hubris, she already knows everything and is the champion of every leftist cause. She leads with her unbridled emotions, happily ignorant of the facts. House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi would love to corral her but would not dare even hint at that, shrewdly recognizing the mob attraction AOC enjoys with the Party’s shrieking base. Pelosi knows better than to chastise AOC and so ducked the question when asked why AOC never shuts up.
Well, I’m with Pelosi, for different reasons. Please don’t shut up, AOC. We appreciate your drawing a sharp contrast every day between the noxious views of your party, which now dutifully embodies your extremism, and those representing responsible governance. Thank you for liberally exercising your First Amendment freedoms.
The depth of the absurdity and intellectual and historical corruption of AOC’s “concentration camp” description is well stated by David Harsanyi:
The Problem With Ocasio-Cortez’s Shameful Ignorance of History
And then again . . . Paul Curry writes:
AOC, Tlaib, and Omar May Be a Triumvirate of Idiocy, But Every Conservative’s Best Friends (excerpt)
Every time one of these mental samurais speaks, one can feel the seismic shift in the 40 House seats Trump won in 2016 but elected a Democrat to Congress in ’18. Every time the aforementioned whiz kids of the leftist class rear their heads, Trump’s 304 Electoral Votes looks like a Patriot’s half-time score before Tom Brady enters the game.
But Conservatives should embrace these three upstarts come 2020. Instead of countless dollars spent on political consulting and messaging, run a clip of AOC declaring “unemployment is so low because everyone has two jobs.” Rent airtime, playing on a continuous loop, of how she can work to ensure a living wage for all, despite her recent declaration that her $174,000 Congressional salary is not enough for her to live on.
AOC’s failures are not limited to her clear problems with math and economics. Take her recent statements on race and immigration (which is only racist to a confirmed racist). She is a legislator who publicly declared concentration camps exist on our southern border. That’s right, she did liken our taking families destined for life on the streets, in bus stations, or under bridges, to the world’s greatest evil ever seen marching human beings into camps for the sole purpose of extermination, of murder. Perhaps history and logic were not her best subjects either.
The self-absorption, the historical ignorance of the AOC’s is evidenced in Michael Barone’s commentary:
Yes, AOC, Your Generation Has Seen American Prosperity
But this well-stated item that came to us via HP, original source unverified but attributed to an Alyssa Ahlgren, at least suggests some of AOC generation have a head on their shoulders:
“I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me.
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times.
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”
Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP.
The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity?
We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why?
The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.
My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?”
Our conclusion: AOL and her generation are victims to an extent, although their obligation to be better informed is not, but they are victims of the multi-generational influence of the NEA and parents who put up with the corruption.
