Posted on 02/07/2019 10:20:13 AM PST by jazusamo
New York 'it girl' and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has always carried one great big piece of political designer baggage with her: Socialism, with all its ghastly train of ruin, which she is trying to repackage as something fresh and new and fashionable. So all eyes were on her as she got a big condemnation of socialism right in her face from President Trump at his State of the Union speech the other night, with the president denouncing its horrors in Venezuela and declaring "America will never be a socialist country." Seventy-six percent of Americans approved of the speech.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews, hardly a hostile interviewer, asked her for a response and she came up with this whopper.
Here's the transcript from RealClearPolitics:
"What did you make...
~snip~
"Confuse the public"?
What is there to be confused about?
Venezuela's a disastrous failure under 20 years of socialism, with starvation, zero medical care, industrial collapse, sovereign default, massive inflation, and millions of Venezuelans fleeing for their lives. It's not Cuba they're fleeing to, either, it's any place their feet will reach that isn't socialist.
And her dismissal of the matter as an 'ad hominem attack' is nonsense - Trump brought up no person, which is where the 'hominem' comes fro, he brought up the results of her own beloved socialism.
What gets me about this is that Ocasio-Cortez is trying to pass off her socialism as something different, the argument that 'ours will be a really good socialism,' which dates back to what radicals in the 1960s argued as they pushed for socialism in places like Cambodia, something that led skull heaps with 3 million dead.
Tom Wolfe, who first observed this, noted that lefties have been pushing a Utopian vision of 'our socialism will be a very good socialism' for years.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bat__ crazy!
Turn the US into Venezuela in 1 year
Amen...Especially the leadership and the DNC, she's bringing the Dems socialism out in the open and that's causing a problem for them.
A great Trump-tweetworthy question!
Occasional-Cortex is an embarrassment.
Occasional Cortex accused Trump of an ad hominem attack on socialism......because shes so stupid, she doesnt understand what ad hominem really means. What a DUNCE.
Frankly, she is doing one hell of a good job considering that she is young, immature, and just not too smart.
She has most of the Democrats in the House dancing to her tune.
Think about it. She has only been there a few weeks and she has HUGE influence.
Brandon Straka has mentioned running against her in the next election. He’s homosexual, but a pro-Trump libertarian. He’d be better.
When you are elitist and paternalistic, you have contempt and hatred for the masses, then you believe that the masses are unfit for freedom and need to be ruled for their own good. Once you take this attitude, you are tolerant of the misery and suffering that socialism causes wherever it is put into practice.
I agree, AOC is not only nuts but anti-American.
The left has become so extreme in its political views that it will support anyone, no matter how unlikely, who appears to share its goals. Most, if not all of those goals would destroy our country. This woman has attention of the liberal media and is receiving a wealth of publicity.
grasp at an ad hominem attackHominem attack means attacking a person, not a thing.
an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy.This, of course, is correct, but her shoes are on the wrong feet.
throw people off the scent of the trailPeople who use a lot of cliches tend to be ungrounded in details.
he has to really make and confuse the publicI have no idea what that means. I suppose AOC has an fan base
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McCaskill nailed her when she referred to her as a new bright shiny object........well she is stupid mostly and shiny but not bright....
If Maduro had a horse teeth daughter with bug eyes.
My two granddaughters ages TWO and FOUR are not half as uninformed and immature as AOC! And the two year old can’t even talk yet! LOL
IF she can read she SHOULD READ “WE THE LIVING” about what it was REALLY like when the Communists took over Russia.
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