Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the voice of an ignorant generation
Jan 14, 2019 11:06:03 #
An interesting perspective which isn't too long for you slow thinkers.
The majority of American Millennials identify as socialist, according to surveys by both Reason-Rupe and the Victims of C*******m Memorial Foundation. That’s the bad news. The good news is that just 32 percent of Millennials can define socialism. The frequently-wrong but never-in-doubt freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., may indeed be the voice of her ignorant generation.
During an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper asked Ocasio-Cortez, “When people hear the word socialism, they think Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. Is that what you have in mind?” He neglected to mention the vicious socialist regimes of Cambodia, Ethiopia, Poland, Romania, North Korea, and China, among others.
Ocasio-Cortez retorted, “Of course not. What we have in mind—and what of my—and my policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden.” In fact, her economic proposals bear little resemblance to British and Nordic public policy.
As early as the 1950s, Britain began to privatize its social security and pension programs. By the 1990s, as decades of socialism caused economic growth to stagnate, Sweden followed suit. Neither Sweden nor Norway mandates a minimum wage, and Britain demands a minimum wage well below Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed $15 per hour. Britain and Finland offer a lower corporate tax rate than the United States, and all the nations she names have lower rates than her proposal of 28 percent. None has a health care regime as socialistic as her proposed Medicare-For-All scheme, which constitutes a full federal takeover of health care.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ignorance of economics and foreign affairs typifies her generation. Despite holding expensive degrees in both Economics and International Relations from Boston University, Ocasio-Cortez threw up her hands in exasperation during an interview on Margaret Hoover’s “Firing Line” program, laughing, “I’m not the expert on geopolitics.” Fortunately for her, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king; and among a blithely ignorant generation, the lightly educated activist is congresswoman.
The seed of Millennial miseducation, which grew into the Tree of the Lack of Knowledge as activist educators substituted ideology for scholarship, is finally bearing its rotten fruit. According to one survey, one third of Millennials believe President George W. Bush k**led more people than Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Over 40 percent of Millennials have never heard of Mao Zedong; another 40 percent and 30 percent, respectively, are unfamiliar with Vladimir Lenin and Che Guevara. Two-thirds of Millennials cannot identify Auschwitz, and 22 percent have never heard of the Holocaust, twice the percentage of American adults on average.
Millennials might not know much, but according to a 2016 Harvard survey, they know they don’t support capitalism, with 51 percent of young adults rejecting economic freedom.
During the 2018 midterm e******ns, the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed 42 candidates for local, state, and federal office across 20 states. Of those candidates, 24 won their primary campaigns, and 18 won in general e******ns. Millennials have largely cheered them on. Raised in the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall, these young Americans have been sheltered both empirically and academically from the myriad horrors wrought by socialism throughout history. And so the problem worsens.
Socialism is an economic disease born of envy and ignorance. Unfortunately both abound in our present politics. The sickness has found an attractive spokeswoman—perhaps, sadly, the voice of her generation.
The majority of American Millennials identify as socialist, according to surveys by both Reason-Rupe and the Victims of C*******m Memorial Foundation. That’s the bad news. The good news is that just 32 percent of Millennials can define socialism. The frequently-wrong but never-in-doubt freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., may indeed be the voice of her ignorant generation.
During an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper asked Ocasio-Cortez, “When people hear the word socialism, they think Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. Is that what you have in mind?” He neglected to mention the vicious socialist regimes of Cambodia, Ethiopia, Poland, Romania, North Korea, and China, among others.
Ocasio-Cortez retorted, “Of course not. What we have in mind—and what of my—and my policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden.” In fact, her economic proposals bear little resemblance to British and Nordic public policy.
As early as the 1950s, Britain began to privatize its social security and pension programs. By the 1990s, as decades of socialism caused economic growth to stagnate, Sweden followed suit. Neither Sweden nor Norway mandates a minimum wage, and Britain demands a minimum wage well below Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed $15 per hour. Britain and Finland offer a lower corporate tax rate than the United States, and all the nations she names have lower rates than her proposal of 28 percent. None has a health care regime as socialistic as her proposed Medicare-For-All scheme, which constitutes a full federal takeover of health care.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ignorance of economics and foreign affairs typifies her generation. Despite holding expensive degrees in both Economics and International Relations from Boston University, Ocasio-Cortez threw up her hands in exasperation during an interview on Margaret Hoover’s “Firing Line” program, laughing, “I’m not the expert on geopolitics.” Fortunately for her, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king; and among a blithely ignorant generation, the lightly educated activist is congresswoman.
The seed of Millennial miseducation, which grew into the Tree of the Lack of Knowledge as activist educators substituted ideology for scholarship, is finally bearing its rotten fruit. According to one survey, one third of Millennials believe President George W. Bush k**led more people than Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Over 40 percent of Millennials have never heard of Mao Zedong; another 40 percent and 30 percent, respectively, are unfamiliar with Vladimir Lenin and Che Guevara. Two-thirds of Millennials cannot identify Auschwitz, and 22 percent have never heard of the Holocaust, twice the percentage of American adults on average.
Millennials might not know much, but according to a 2016 Harvard survey, they know they don’t support capitalism, with 51 percent of young adults rejecting economic freedom.
During the 2018 midterm e******ns, the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed 42 candidates for local, state, and federal office across 20 states. Of those candidates, 24 won their primary campaigns, and 18 won in general e******ns. Millennials have largely cheered them on. Raised in the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall, these young Americans have been sheltered both empirically and academically from the myriad horrors wrought by socialism throughout history. And so the problem worsens.
Socialism is an economic disease born of envy and ignorance. Unfortunately both abound in our present politics. The sickness has found an attractive spokeswoman—perhaps, sadly, the voice of her generation.
Jan 14, 2019 11:15:10 #
Jakebrake wrote:
b An interesting perspective which isn't too long... (show quote)
She is just one of the Democrats v**ed into Congress
Now Congress has not been allowed to go against Nancy's wishes over this shutdown.So who are the Real I***ts here.?
I think it is the v**ers who put the Democrats in charge. Don't you?
Jan 14, 2019 11:24:26 #
Weasel wrote:
She is just one of the Democrats v**ed into Congress Now Congress has not been allowed to go against Nancy's wishes over this shutdown.
So who are the Real I***ts here.?
I think it is the v**ers who put the Democrats in charge. Don't you?
She is just one of the Democrats v**ed into Congress
Now Congress has not been allowed to go against Nancy's wishes over this shutdown.So who are the Real I***ts here.?
I think it is the v**ers who put the Democrats in charge. Don't you?
Jan 14, 2019 11:32:43 #
Jakebrake wrote:
b An interesting perspective which isn't too long... (show quote)
I certainly don’t want America to look like SWEDEN. Who in their right mind would?
Cortez is being tutored by someone and we need to know who that someone is. The colleges and universities of this country are responsible for the rise in Socialism. Take a look at what’s happening in France, what has already happened in Sweden (a new
Constitution) and what is about to happen in the UK. THE British v**ed to Brexit and elected May who didn’t want Brexit and then Parliament gave her a v**e of confidence. The r**ts that are coming will at least equal the French.
Jan 14, 2019 11:45:38 #
Weasel wrote:
She is just one of the Democrats v**ed into Congress Now Congress has not been allowed to go against Nancy's wishes over this shutdown.
So who are the Real I***ts here.?
I think it is the v**ers who put the Democrats in charge. Don't you?
She is just one of the Democrats v**ed into Congress
Now Congress has not been allowed to go against Nancy's wishes over this shutdown.So who are the Real I***ts here.?
I think it is the v**ers who put the Democrats in charge. Don't you?
Yes they are the real i***ts but you need to be aware of the district she represents. It is filled with i***ts of the same kind, people looking for a handout, a freebie and something for nothing. Without any regard for who pays the check or if they have spent more than exists to pay.
Sher represents the 'gimmee' ethos, people to whom the concept of working for a living is foreign and bizarre.
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