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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:16 AM Mar 2019

These four snippets make it clear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a force to be reckoned with

Haters will hate. They will try to call out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her youth, 'inexperience,' and her unabashed and unapologetic progressivism. But she is from a generation that is not only seen but living through the ills of an economic system that has screwed most if even with the semblance of prosperity for some as a few take most.

The Right is trying to portray Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as dumb. I interviewed her a few months before she won her primary election. I told her then she would win her primary. I found her fast thinking, knowledgeable, and kind. The caricature they are trying to make of her is just that.

The four snippets from the show I discuss in this post is mostly to illustrate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez political savvy as well as her knowledge on the issues given her ability to handle some of the impromptu misdirections. I missed one, however, where she mentioned that one of the aspects of the Green New Deal could be implemented right away by funding coal miners' pensions in West Virginia. It is a personalization that ensures we inform Americans who don't realize it, that they are stakeholders as well.



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These four snippets make it clear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a force to be reckoned with (Original Post) egbertowillies Mar 2019 OP
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. OhNo-Really Mar 2019 #1
During the actual New Deal, there were many socialist and actual communist. rusty quoin Mar 2019 #2
Very well said! duforsure Mar 2019 #3

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
1. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 01:06 AM
Mar 2019

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Thank you for using her name. I want everyone to know her name.

A remarkable, brave young woman.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
2. During the actual New Deal, there were many socialist and actual communist.
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 02:19 AM
Mar 2019

There was never a danger of the country being taken over by either, but they put us in a direction that led to about 40 years of a good economy.

It wasn’t until Reagan came along that it flipped.

AOC is no threat. We already have that threat now 10 times over.

What we need here in the Democratic Party is more people like her to steer us back to the good days, minus the racism. Republicans were good enough to relieve us of that burden in the sixties.

I look forward to what she says everyday, because she’s right.

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