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So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.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.
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.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-voice-of-an-ignorant-generation
So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-voice-of-an-ignorant-generation
So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.
Odd, the only ones really talking about her are conservative republicans. Sounds like you finally found some one you can actually debate against. Sorta. Kinda. If name calling is debate. You should be proud!
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-voice-of-an-ignorant-generation
So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.
Odd, the only ones really talking about her are conservative republicans. Sounds like you finally found some one you can actually debate against. Sorta. Kinda. If name calling is debate. You should be proud!
You're into Babs, I guess?
AOC is like Trump. People were so feed up with the same old crap being offered up they went with an outsider that promised way more than could be delivered. Hopefully in 2020 the nation will make better choices.
What difference does that make?
Besides your moot point, maybe we're talking about AOC because the people hating on Trump are mostly leftists talking about him 24-7.
he good news is that just 32 percent of Millennials can define socialism.
The difference is that you're forcing her message (especially the 70% tax rate message) into the mainstream and making it a legitimate national discussion. Pat yourself on the back.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-voice-of-an-ignorant-generation
So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-voice-of-an-ignorant-generation
So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.
You have enough of a hard time speaking for yourself.
Try for some intellectual honesty and don't speak for me...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the voice of an ignorant generation
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-voice-of-an-ignorant-generation
So is AOC the new brains of the Democratic Party? FFS, I hope not.
What difference does that make?
Besides your moot point, maybe we're talking about AOC because the people hating on Trump are mostly leftists talking about him 24-7.
You should, your party supported her. Ideology over country, and now ideology over intelligence as well apparently.
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