Epoch Times:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was criticized after she attempted to downplay the threat of socialism by claiming Republicans are trying to scare people away from voting for Democratic candidates.
“The ‘old-fashioned red-baiting approach, familiar to those of us who lived through the Cold War, doesn’t seem to be working,’” Ocasio-Cortez said in a Twitter post accompanied by an article that argues the fear around socialism is beginning to recede.
“Drumming fear around socialism is the GOP’s big play, & it’s failing, bc capitalism = GoFundMe as our national healthcare system,” she added.
Many people called out Ocasio-Cortez trivializing the threat of a tyrannical political system that has caused destruction in many parts of the world, most recently in Venezuela.
“AOC’s message today: there’s never a reason to fear communism or socialism, despite the fact they’ve never worked,” Stand for America, an organization founded by former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, posted in response. “We don’t need to go back 30 years to see what’s happening in Venezuela today. #NeverSocialism.”
Will Estes, who has penned pieces for the National Review and Washington Examiner, wrote: “If the ‘fear around socialism’ has begun to recede, it’s thanks to a public education system that has failed to impart the cruel lesson of its privations on every people who’ve been subjected to it. Which, frankly, explains much of your popularity too.”
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Rational people don’t fear socialism – they HATE it.
They realize socialism is EVIL. It is nihilistic. It is, at its core, misanthropic.
Socialism is a means to an end: totalitarianism – oppression – slavery – famine – pestilence – and death.
Socialism is a lie based upon a foundation of lies – and no good can ever come of it. Good cannot sprout from evil.
izlamo delenda est …
I don’t know about anyone else, but fr me it is socialism that scares me away from socialism.
It’s got nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats, it has everything to do with socialism itself.
She’s doing a damned good job of destroying socialism all by herself with all of her idiotic ideas like the Green New Deal etc. Anyone with an ounce of brains which excludes most Millennials knows that she is full of shit and don’t want anything to do with her Socialist utopian (actually dystopian) bs. Keep opening your pie hole babe, the more you flap your jaws the more we see thru you and your dumbass anti American ideology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3YD5v9w_3M
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If capitalism = GoFundMe, then socialism = Enron.
Every country, past and present, that tries socialism scares people away. Smart people, that is.
So now she claims to have lived through the cold war?
She’s hawking posters now for her Greed You Kneel, and they are pure Soviet style.
It’s one thing to wear a Soviet army cap ironically. It’s quite another to buckle on their whole goddam government. We shouldn’t even have to be arguing this if our schools still taught history.
She’s a year or two younger than my youngest daughter who is almost 31. And the Cold War ended in 1989 so she couldn’t have lived thru the Cold War since she wasn’t even born yet. What a lying dipshit! And I suppose she’ll say her earlier reincarnated self was at Woodstock too 50 years ago.
Storytelling like a Biden.
They asked me to pin a medal on a guy in that war.
She did not live through the cold war
Exactly how many duck and cover drills did she participate in as a kid?
She lives in a rich fantasy world.
No socialists are scaring me away from socialism!
She’s “lived” through the Cold War. Uh-huh.
She was born in 1989.
What she has lived through is the Northeast’s version of Socialism that is fastly running out of other people’s money. The benefit of living in post-Giuliani New York as it slouches back towards pre-Giuliani New York by choice.
Then “it can’t be saved” and will need to be bailed out by other people’s money from outside of New York because it’s such a great city or some bullshit.
I love all the late 70s, early 80s movies about New York. It’s like looking into the not too distant future.
Everyone who lived as a kid back in the late 50’s and early 60’s remembers the duck and cover drills and knew it was bullshit since a desk wasn’t going to protect you from being incinerated in a nuclear blast. Of course I didn’t know what bullshit meant then but I knew that a desk over me wasn’t going to save me if the Russkies nuked us. The 2 biggest scares for young people and especially young men back then were nuclear annihilation and the draft during the Vietnam war.
All I ever see whenever she’s in front of an audience is a bartender dishing out bar stool philosophy to anyone who will listen to her nutty ramblings. A bar is a great place to float all your deep, connect-the-dots conspiracy theories. “Oh my God, you’re right! I didn’t think about that.” All said in that dim-bulb-sputtering-to-life, mystified voice.
How many more times? How many more times does it need to be tried before it’s discredited?
AA, so you’re saying that AOC is a blithering idiot.
I’ll keep my guns and my liberty so yeah, socialism bad.
geoff the aardvark — Yeah, that’s about the size of it.
For all of you dumbed-down, short attention-span, self-absorbed, spoon-fed, celebrity-obsessed, White guilt-ridden, Birkenstock-wearing, bottled-water-drinking, kumbaya-singing, Rainbow Plantation, COEXIST bumper-sticker, Leftist Liberal children wandering aimlessly around in the haze of Politically Correctness, if you only ever study ONE History lesson, study Venezuela!! THEN you’ll see what true Socialism does!!
It’s happening RIGHT NOW!
The Left owns it!
They can’t white-wash it.
They can’t tell you it never happened (like they try to do with the Holocaust).
I. Will. Not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With. That. Woman.
Socialism sure as hell cures obesity
In the 5th grade, we had the Clorox bottles filled with water, our names written on them.
The heating boiler exploded, it was hilarious watching the kids run for their water.
Dad was a SAC member at the time, he explained the water would be the least of my worries if they attacked.
We were ground zero at the time, SAC base and all.
I truly did live through the Cold War, thanks President Raygun.
“Drumming fear around socialism…”
You always mangle your metaphors like this, AOC. All I can figure is that you’re trying to impersonate an ESL person.
It is “drumming up”, not “drumming around”. Your side is the one with drum circles, not mine.
Not knowing the history of socialism compares with not knowing the history of Boston U grads. No excuse for such stupidity, although I am happy to consider the “students” being in debt for eternity.
Move to Venezuela AOC.
^^^ Good point Diana! Buy into Socialism and be in debt for eternity, which is exactly why Ronald Reagan stated: We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
There are over one hundred million reasons to oppose socialism – – DEAD reasons.
THE CNUT WAS BORN IN 1989!!!
Who needs “red baiting” when the Commie “fish” are jumping right into the net?!
Clearly a much older person is writing the twit’s tweets. Not a good look for a ‘youth oriented’ thirty year old bartender cum ‘legislator’. The apparent ‘stupid’ quotient is remaining consistent though, which is a good thing.
The only “Cold War” this twit has ever experienced, is in the winter time trying to battle Natural Gas and evil coal producing electricity companies.