Posted on 04/30/2019 2:10:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The harshest critics of the West in general and the United States in particular are the best arguments for it. Take the latest iconic critic, 29-year-old Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. She has a predictable list of complaints against America, past and present.
Yet fortunately for her, her paternal grandparents and mother had experienced firsthand the antitheses of mainland America. And thus they were obsessed with what was right, not wrong, with the continental United States — and with getting there as quickly as possible. If they had once been critics of America, such animus was seemingly not great enough to prevent them moving to a place with a different language, ethnic majority, and traditions from those of their home, itself a territory of the U.S.
They apparently assumed that a free-market economy and transparent government gave them economic opportunities unknown in Puerto Rico, an otherwise naturally rich landscape. They wisely stayed in North America, apparently because they felt as supposed minorities that they would have far more cultural, social, political, and economic opportunities than they would as part of the majority in Puerto Rico. The fact that her father was a second-generation immigrant and architect, that AOC herself grew up in affluent Westchester County, that she received scholarships to attend pricey Boston University, and that she was elected to Congress bore out her parents’ correct assumptions of a meritocracy, not a caste state.
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Be sure to stop before you get to California.
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we’ll do the rest
ping!!!!!!
listen to VDH talk about ‘privileged illegals and immigrants’ and discuss his personal situation with the illegals ruining his neighborgood
https://howiecarrshow.com/2019/04/30/victor-davis-hanson-4-30-19-hour-4/
Jump to time 19:55
They heard the call and jumped on the short blue bus.
Love the Doors.
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Thanks for the ping; post. HOORAY VDH.
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