Posted on 01/13/2019 8:08:53 AM PST by Az Joe
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other boosters of the latest redistributive fads might want to consider a parable from the ancient political philosopher Xenophon before getting carried away in their self-righteous assumptions.
There are two boys, one big and one small. The big one has a small coat, the small one has a large coat. The big one strips the large coat from the small boy and in its place gives the small boy the smaller coat. Both boys now have a coat that fits. But is this justice?
Certainly, both boys have better fitting coats. But that isnt the same as justice. Justice is concerned with who has the right to the larger coat. The one who takes it by force? Or the one who worked for it, saved for it, and bought it for himself? The answer is obvious, or at least it used to be. Not so for the freshman Democrat from the Bronx.
She wants what youve got. According to Ocasio-Cortez, the act of taking is justice. Consider her recent interview on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper.
“Ideologues such as Ocasio-Cortez cannot be dissuaded by logical analysis or empirical evidence.”
She if given a chance, would put us all in concentration camps.
And would shoot any Resistance without trial.
5.56mm
Come on now Joe. If we are going to really be restricted to reading the article first it is really going to slow this forum down.
Taking money from those who earn it is illegal. Giving it to those who whine and vote democrat for a living is unjust.
Extremely dangerous and must be killed in the crib... (See Rosemary’s baby).
I knew I had to put the note on there!
Extremely dangerous and must be killed in the crib... (See Rosemary’s baby).
Extremely dangerous and must be killed in the crib... (See Rosemary’s baby).
Kill it in the crib... (See Rosemary’s baby).
Very dangerous. A child who grew up with no boundaries or discipline, Another obama or moochie or Guvera etc.
She is already too old to ltarn or even think she should.
Extremely dangerous and must be killed in the crib... (See Rosemary’s baby).
Rosemary’s Baby 2019
It is rather simple really...Ocasio-Cortez is Mao Zedong before Mao Zedong became Mao Zedong.
"The Socialist - the extreme and revolutionary party of Socialists - are very fond of telling us they are reviving in modern days the best principles of the Christian era. They consider they are the political embodiment of Christianity, though, to judge by the language which some of them use and the spirit of envy, hatred, and malice with which they go about their work, you would hardly imagine they had studied the teaching of the Founder of Christianity with the attention they profess to have given to the subject . . . The Socialism of the Christian era was based on the idea that "all mine is yours, but the Socialism of Mr Grayson is based on the idea that 'all yours is mine. — Winston Churchill
o-cotex is an ideologue with a disintegrated mode of thought combined with a worship of omniscient, omnipotent big government.With this mixture anything goes and it is always right.
Extremely dangerous and must be killed in the crib... (See Rosemarys baby).
“She, and her kind, must be destroyed.”
Occasional Cortex may succeed in doing something similar here...but it won’t be for free. That is both a promise and a threat to the Communists here.
That's the wrong lesson from the parable.
The small boy has a large coat that doesn't fit him now, but what if the boy bought the coat because he knew he would need it when he grew into it in a few years?
The large boy didn't plan for the future, and so bought a coat that fit him when he was small, too. Now that he's outgrown his means, he takes the large coat from the small boy, leaving the small boy with nothing for his own future.
That's what Ocasio-Cortez wants to do from the rest of us who properly planned for our own futures instead of splurging on immediate pleasures. She wants to take our savings for our own future plans, and give it to people who either haven't similarly planned, or are just starting out and don't want the "suffering" of budgeting now for wealth later.
She wants our large coats because she thinks we don't need them now.
-PJ
“...the only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head. That was my experience.” — Quang Nguyen
I’ll go with the ancient sage’s lesson
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