On June 16, 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stepped in it again. While livestreaming from her bedroom on Instagram she said, among other things, that the US is running concentration camps on our southern border. The fact that this assessment can be countered simply by pointing out that any of the refugees who want to go back where they came from, would be allowed to, where concentration camps are prisons, just shows how ignorant she actually is.
This is not the first stupid thing she has said, nor will it be the last. Her Green New Deal wanted to get rid of airplanes and farting cows, because they produce greenhouse gasses. She wants to replace them with solar, which works when the sun is shining, but the sun goes down every night, and wind turbines, which work only when the wind is blowing. That’s not to say these technologies shouldn’t be pursued and perfected, only that they can’t replace what we currently use.
For someone who claims to have a degree in Economics, she doesn’t seem to know much about money, or how it’s used, or even how industry works. She is what my generation calls, educated beyond her intelligence. She has all the right letters behind her name, and for her political aspirations, the right genetics and gender, as well as a compelling back story.
She appeared to be, exactly what the Democratic Party was looking for. A female Millennial minority, who worked herself up from the bottom. Unfortunately for the Democrats, she just can’t keep her mouth shut.
She Doesn’t Know, What She Doesn’t Know
Every time AOC opens her mouth, something amazingly stupid comes out. Unfortunately, for the Democratic Party, because she is one of their own, they feel compelled to support whatever stupid things she says. AOC is a native New Yorker. I’ve known and talked to many New Yorkers, most of which had no idea what a time zone is. You see, the problem with New Yorkers, and those from L.A. as well, is that they believe their city is the center of the Universe.
Everything revolves around their city. Ergo, everyone thinks just like they do. So they honestly don’t understand why anyone would possibly disagree with what they say. It’s not AOC’s fault really, she’s just never seen anything outside NYC. At least, not until she went to D.C. Her panicked tweet about the tornado watch in D.C. pretty well proved that.
I would love to see her spend a week in Kansas, working on a farm. She wouldn’t last a day. You see, she honestly believes standing behind a bar, chatting up the local drunks, is a hard day’s work. That’s not to put down bartenders, but put her to work bailing hay, and see how she feels. It’s not the mowing, or the raking, or even the bailing that’s hard. It’s loading all those bails onto a flatbed for transport, that gets you.
I’m not a farmer, but I have relatives who are, and I know for a fact they all think AOC is a Pampered Princess. Not because she grew up in New York, but because of what she regularly says and does. She has no clue what the people of America are like, because she’s never met any of them. She has always been isolated, and insolated from the world outside her city.
The Nuclear Effect
This is the problem the Democratic Party faced, when they made her the face of the New Democratic Party. AOC had all the right attributes. She checked all the right boxes. They just never thought to talk to her, before they hailed her victory. If they had, they would have cut her off well before election night. Now they’re stuck with her, until at least next year.
Because the Democratic Party can never admit any mistake, they are forced to follow AOC, wherever she leads. They are drawn ever deeper into the weeds, every time she speaks. AOC has only been in office for six months, and already she long ago lead the Democratic Party past the signs that read “Here there be Dragons!”.
Because of this, the Party is tied to AOC, as long as she’s in office. As Nancy Pelosi has said about both AOC’s district and her own, a glass of water with the letter D on it, could get elected. The Democrats would have been far better off if they had elected the glass of water.
AOC is single-handedly handing the 2020 election to Donald Trump. She and the other Socialists in her Party are calling their Party’s leading candidate too Moderate. I can’t wait until they start labeling Biden as Alt-Right, and they will. The Republican Party is amazingly lucky to have someone like AOC working for them. Otherwise, this next election might have been much harder.
As long as New Yorkers are only willing to vote for someone with a D behind their name, we will probably have AOC. She has her finger on the trigger, and is ready to pull it. The problem with nukes is, when they go off, they don’t discriminate between friend or foe. When AOC does go off, she’s going to take the Democratic Party with her.
