U.S. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has been called a lot of things; She Guevara and Marx BAE come to mind. But no one can realistically call her knowledgeable or well informed. Nevertheless, by the media providing her a platform to put her ignorance on full display, Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as the voice for an ignorant generation.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the voice of an ignorant era
The majority of American Millennials identify as socialist, according to surveys by both Reason-Rupe and the Victims of Communism 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.
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Puerto Ricans are the only group that never left the northeastern ghettos. That says a lot about her and her, well, stupid and ignorant voters.
So much so, that the Puerto Rican flag is, in essence, an emblem of ignorance and ghettoness. It is a reality they seem to ignore. Then again, competence and foresight sure are lacking in this group (with admirable exceptions, of course).
That said, their political role in USA has always been an embarrassment, not to mention the one in their own island – a bankrupt welfare state marked by economic ineptitude, corruption, bureaucracy, crime, and apathy.
Puerto Rico is ripe terrain for socialism, for it has always been socialist by choice. Again, they don’t even realize it… Perhaps it is time for USA to grant that money pit its independence because the last thing USA needs is more izmierda.
Puerto Rico is a parasite. It has miserably wasted all kinds of time, resources and opportunities to get its shit together, and it is simply not respectable. Hurricane Maria just made the chronic dysfunction (to put it elegantly) blatantly obvious. Yes, Cuba is also a parasite, but it has a FAR better excuse, and it was never parasitic before the Castro disaster, but quite the opposite (ask the Spanish, who are still lamenting the loss of their extremely productive and profitable cash cow over a century later).