Mostly, members of Congress are do-nothings. In his book Militant Normals, Kurt Schlichter described Washington, D.C. The purpose? To repent for her privilege and rid herself of some sort of inherent liberal guilt. She’s a trustafarian, as one of my close friends calls them, having grown up comfortably as a suburbanite but enlisted for a tour of duty in the race and class war pushed by academia, the mainstream press, and the Democratic Party. Despite her upper-middle-class roots and degree in international relations and economics from the formerly-prestigious Boston University, AOC ended up underemployed and hoping for a slammed Friday night at the bar to fill the tip jar. Further, she is one of those pesky victimized millennial Socialists. That makes her the equivalent of a unicorn in the eyes of the political left-she’s near the top of the victimhood totem pole as established by the critical theory wonks. Not only is she brown, but at the risk of assuming her gender, she is a she. In short, AOC checks many of the requisite social justice boxes. The leftist system of academia of which AOC is product has raised an entire generation of nitwit social justice warriors who perceive themselves as victims of a rigged system, believe that certain skin tones, genitalia, and sexual orientations are résumé boosters, and view America as a fundamentally evil place where a white male patriarchy is still large and in charge, scheming at some non-existent monthly meeting about how it can oppress women and minorities whilst drinking scotch and chortling. The millennials to whom AOC appeals just know that they are owed by some societal structure that has held them down. It means working hard, accomplishing goals, and earning success.īut when you think about AOC through the lens of a twenty-two-year-old Starbucks barista with a degree in pansexual art theory who is chipping away at $234,591 in student loan debt one minimum-wage shift at a time, Cortez begins to make sense. To Republicans, the American dream means the opposite. She never founded a business that produced a viable product, created a single job, balanced a checkbook, or managed anything other than a social media account. Any speech or interview that she has given proves that she’s not exactly a scholar. How can this woman, just old enough to rent a car, who likely has not read a book since undergrad-and even then, probably only skimmed the text-instantly become the most attention-worthy member of Congress? After all, she hasn’t accomplished anything professionally. Given AOC’s tenuous relationship with reality, Republicans simply cannot understand the appeal. Her political opponents are still bewildered. The political Left’s American dream is the life of AOC: do nothing and become successful. The Yaaas queen crowd, whose worldview has been shaped through Instagram filters and Snapchat stories, and who have spent more time keeping up with the Kardashians than keeping up with American politics, reads her loudly and clearly: you too can be a know-nothing millennial idiot pouring seven-and-sevens at your local dive bar, and, with the mastery of precisely nothing other than Twitter clap backs, can achieve fame and influence overnight. Her cult-like millennial followers are enamored with her. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents the radical political Left’s American dream, and the political Right’s American nightmare. Congress for twenty years, a freshman congresswoman from New York’s Fourteenth District has captivated America. Since her upset victory over veteran Democrat Joe Crowley, a staple in the halls of U.S. Published in the United States of America Table of Contents No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author and publisher. The American People AOC_titlepageĪlexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Her Mysterious Rise from Bartender to Congresswoman:
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