Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) continues to spit out preposterous and deeply untrue
comments and opinions. She commits as many gaffs as Joe Biden, but she doesn’t
realize or recognize it, even after the fact. Nor will the mainstream media
report on her obvious misstatements as AOC is protected by virtue of being a woman
womyn womxn of color, a Latinx!
Ocasio-Cortez
recently averred that the Greatest Generation was is, well, her own: "I
think young people are more informed and dynamic than their predecessors,"
Ocasio-Cortez said. "I think this new generation is very profound and very
strong and very brave, because they're actually willing to go to the streets.
How about that? Like, previous generations have just assumed that government's
got it. Let me tell you something, you are
the government. Like, as a democracy, we the people, as a voter, you are the
government too."
Like, let
me tell you something, AOC: like, I already knew that, in a democracy,
people are part of the government, too.
You probably haven’t heard of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, or perhaps
even Lincoln, but it contains a line that reads in part: “That government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
(Granted, it would read and sound better if AOC had written and delivered it:
“That, like, government of, like, the people, by, like, the people, like, for the
people, shall not, like, perish from the earth, like). Moreover, young people
have been taking to the streets, for better or worse, for centuries now. AOC
may have heard of the race riots and Vietnam War protests of the ‘60s, but
probably is utterly ignorant of the Boston Tea Party or Lexington and Concord.
It is true, however, that many Millennials, at least those who aren’t still
living in their mom and dad’s basement, have taken to the streets. And left
their hypodermic needles and fecal matter there. Their less “dynamic”
predecessors just risked their lives fighting in wars to win independence and
protect our freedoms. Oh, and they built the cities in which Millennials live,
protest—and crap.
Most
demonstrably do not take the time to read our history—or anyone
else’s—and they sure as hell don’t understand it. And the fault is not all
theirs. The crux of the problem is that no one is teaching them the true
history of the nation and its founding, because they are too busy indoctrinating
them, molding them into crazed social justice warriors who, as Ronald Reagan
once noted, “know so many things that just aren’t so.”
I am
continually saddened when I talk to these “profound” and supposedly “more
informed” “dynamic” young people and it becomes clear they have no idea of the
concept of natural law, the content of the Bill of Rights, the economic
principles of Adam Smith, or that America banned the slave trade before Sweden,
The Netherlands, France and Spain. Most couldn’t name the 13 colonies (the U.S.
was colonized by the British) or name four of the first ten presidents.
Many claim to be fond of socialism, though they couldn’t point out Venezuela or
North Korea on a map of the world. Worse yet, these “very brave” young people
may well scurry to their “safe spaces” when confronted with ideas they dislike
or facts they have no intention of acknowledging.
One
Millennial, while being interviewed on a public beach, was asked who the United
States got its independence from. He answered “Virginia.”
I will admit,
in its own way, that is very “profound” indeed.
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