Posted on 01/12/2019 4:59:50 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Conservatives sure are afraid of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They don’t like that she danced in college, they’re in an uproar over an old high school nickname — some are even spreading a false rumor about a nude photo.
The Republican, mostly male obsession with the 29-year-old Bronx native is more than run-of-the-mill misogyny; it’s existential panic. Because in addition to the young Democratic Socialist standing for (reasonable) policies that conservatives find terrifying, Ocasio-Cortez represents a vision of the future of the United States — a future that’s no longer centered around old white men.
The newest class of political representatives are more diverse than ever. Forty-two women were sworn into Congress this year. The freshman class also inducted 24 people of color, 23 of whom are Democrats.
Ocasio-Cortez — who is telegenic, talented, and unabashedly left — embodies a shift in power that terrifies the right. That’s why the sustained attack on the youngest woman ever elected to Congress is so very specific: making up sexualized rumors, calling her a “girl,” or referring to her as Sandy (I have particular ire for men to use nicknames as a way to belittle women). It is all meant to discredit and diminish her bona fides.
But this isn’t just about the politician herself. As Adam Serwer noted this week, the animus towards Ocasio-Cortez is part of the racist backlash that we saw in the 2016 presidential election. “More than simply a leftist to be opposed, Ocasio-Cortez has joined Barack Obama as a focus of the very same fear and anger that elected Trump in the first place,” he wrote.
...actress Zoe Kazan put it, the attacks are also “designed to shame all young women into thinking they should not/could not run for office — that old videos or pictures or rumors of them would surface, that they could never dress/act/speak unimpeachably enough.”
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My mom was there watching it with me.
Different times, different civility.
Maybe AOC will appear on Tucker Carlson's show, or call in to Laura Ingraham?
Yep...building Western Civilization over two millennia is a good achievement.
Show me the same level of achievement by communists and POCs.
The facts speak for themselves.
“Grammar” — there you go again, extolling dead white male virtues! It is SO overrated. (/s)
I am still shocked every day by the poor grammar used by millennials. It is frequently borderline ghetto.
I think we may be witnessing them sneaking “unqualified stooge” #2 into the White House. I’m certain she has attracted good puppet masters. If only she will learn how to dance to their tune she might go a long way. But she is so headstrong and brash that she may be her own worst enemy.
The jury hasn’t even been selected yet.
the young Democratic Socialist standing for (reasonable) policies that conservatives find terrifying,
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1. What she’s standing for is not “reasonable” except to a socialist
2. She’s a socialist
3. She’s more terrifying to the old, white, Dem elite/rich power class (Pelosi, Schumer, et al) because she’s not cowed by them & they can’t control her while she runs the party off a cliff with her bug-eyed, ignorant craziness.
I’m not quite sure why your graph starts at 4 on the crazy side but I’ve got a lot of ideas and personal examples that there ain’t enough room on this site to expound on.
“the Bernie wing of the Party reborn with vigor, video photogeneity, and mouth” — great description.
“AOC is the event horizon for the Democratic Party as we know it” — another great description and we all fervently hope it is true. Or maybe she is the black hole that swallows us all.
In the final analysis, that is the risk we face.
Beauty can want no grace
By true love viewed,
Fancy by looks
Is still renewed.
Like to a fruitful tree,
It ever groweth,
Or the fresh spring,
That endless floweth.
But if that beauty were,
Of one consent with Love,
Love should live free,
And true pleasure prove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdilp3gimFc
In bert speak, AOC= All Other Contracts
The author, if you want to refer to her as such, has her head up her backside.
Cortez is going to flame out. She’s a light weight.
The author, if you want to refer to her as such, has her head up her backside.
Cortez is going to flame out. She’s a light weight.
Different era, as you say. No, I don’t think she’d expose herself to either person.
Everyone is at least a little crazy. Especially women :)).
AOC should terrify anyone who values freedom.
Just because you say I am obsessed with alcohol, and skewered of arc, don’t make it so.
I am afraid of all the dumbmasses who think she is the bees knees.
Socialism sucks, no matter how pretty the messenger.
Well...................that there MSN managed to stuff Barry down our throats (to coin a phrase)............
They are a LOT worse now, so just how hard could it be?
I mean, it’s not as if there were a REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION, or anything like it.
One of the most informative graphs ever.
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