avowed socialists have made some noise, a few even
scoring upsets against longtime entrenched incumbents
to win the party's nomination and get on the ballot for
the general election in November. One of these nominees,
one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, stunningly defeated
incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley to run on the
Democrats' ticket for the 12th Congressional District
seat. No mean feat, for Crowley is the fourth-ranking
House Democrat, and had been a real possibility to
succeed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi if
she were to be jettisoned by a majority of House
Democrats.
Now, Crowley is by no measure a conservative;
he is, in fact, one of the most liberal members
in the House Democrats' caucus. But next to
socialist firebrand Ocasio-Cortez he looks like
another Ronald Reagan. Consider Ocasio-Cortez'
stands and ideas:
Like former presidential hopeful and fellow socialist
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom she was an organizer
for, Ocasio-Cortez supports free college education,
free healthcare, open borders (believing that there are
no "illegal immigrants") and sanctuary cities, and
wants to end capitalism. It has been said that socialists
who seek office as candidates of the Democrat Party
are at least honest about their politics and political
ideas, and 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez is certainly that.
She backs up her first two policy brainchildren thus:
" ... It's that we .. you know, they say 'How are you
going to pay for it?' as though they haven't used those
same ways to pay for unlimited wars, to pay for trillion
dollar tax cuts and tax cut extensions. They use these
mechanisms to pay for these things all the time."
But she neglects to say just what those "same ways"
and "mechanisms" are, the tax cuts enacted by President
Trump and the GOP are benefitting workers and families
while enabling businesses big and small to ignite job
growth, we were able to find and eliminate some of the
deadliest radical Muslim terrorists (including the master-
mind behind the 9/11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden) in
our "unlimited wars" thereby making the world a little
less dangerous, and the benefits from these unnamed
"same ways" and "mechanisms" have helped to
rebuild our economy and to strengthen our military
to aid our fighting forces in their task of stopping the
forces of jihad. By the by, did I mention that she
studied economics at Harvard?
On foreign policy matters Ocasio-Cortez is laughingly
ignorant. When she was a recent guest on the reintroduced
political talk show Firing Line Ocasio-Cortez claimed
that Israel is occupying Palestine (!) --- never mind the fact
that there is no such nation called Palestine, and that the
long-running conflict there has centered on the attempts
by Israel's hostile neighbors who are supporting the
Palestinian people while said neighbors are seeking Israel's
destruction and obliteration. She topped it off by admit-
ting on the show that she didn't know very much about
said conflict. This just after winning the Democrats'
nomination to run for Congress --- and her popularity
in her district hasn't diminished, nor has her appeal with
far Left activists from around the country. To them,
she's the greatest thing since ice cream.
After eight years of President Obama and the Democrats
trashing national security and making a hash of our
foreign policy, including Obama going on an "apology
tour" to apologize to our enemies for our alleged arrogance
and self-serving behavior in our dealings with them and
with the world in general, it has been refreshing to see
President Trump turning these around. In less than one
year he has smashed ISIS, made Russia think twice
about making further mischief in the Middle East and
in Ukraine, froze the flow of money into Iran which
will make it difficult for the mullahs to further pursue
the development of a nuclear arsenal with which to
threaten Israel and other American allies in the region,
and has opened serious peace talks with North Korea
for the first time in history. And all that the Marxist
maiden from Queens can do is berate the president
for involving us in "unlimited wars". FYI, Miss O-C,
it was President Obama who got us into four such
"unlimited wars", extending the war in Afghanistan
beyond any useful purpose, and transforming a war
which we were winning (Iraq) into a bloody hash
with the rise of ISIS and the emergence of various
warlords with their thuggish minions. And through
it all, you were an enthusiastic supporter of Obama.
Back on the home front, Ocasio-Cortez claims the
Democrats are better on family values than the
Republicans. This, the party of abortion, single-
parent homes and the casting of sexual responsi-
bility to the wind. And this walking political
disaster has an excellent chance of being elected
as the next U.S. Representative from New York's
12th District.
And this is what many Democrats hail as the future
of their party, and what they are working for to have
as the future of our country. The Democrat Party has
embraced full-on extremism, and the Republican
Party had better strengthen its spine and its resolve
to stop this wayward one-time mainstream political
party. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be a joke,
but her aims and those of an increasing number of
Democrat Party members are anything but.
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