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The cannibalization of Democratsnow philosophically interchangeable with Bernie Sanders-style socialismis fascinating (and deeply disturbing) to see. What else explains last weeks primary defeat of establishment candidate Rep. Joseph Crowley? Shockingly the fourth most powerful Democrat in Congressa 10-term incumbentpink-slipped by the voters of NY-14. In Mr. Crowleys former slot now stands a genuine pinko: 28-year-old political newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Ah la Obama another fresh-faced progressive spinning the old yarn of collectivism. On NBCs Meet the Press" Ms. Ocasio-Cortez mirrored the former hope and change" president by stating Im an educator Im an organizer. And I believe that what were really seeing is just a movement for health care housing and education in the United States." Well everyone values such things; the question is how theyre achieved. In reality capitalism already provides that to the most people of any economic systemwith the added benefit of self-determination.
Socialism is always based upon redistribution of government resources. Therefore in practice this House nominee peddles de facto economic enslavement via perpetual government dependence. Thats not the American way. In truth its a complete abandonment of the principles that defined their party under JFK. Would President Kennedy want higher taxes single-payer healthcare radical criminal justice reform" to empty prisons and open U.S. borders (by abolishing ICE)? Furthermore Ms. Ocasio-Cortezs claim Democrats are a big-tent party" is as hollow as her dystopian rhetoric. By todays standards JFKs policies place him slightly left of mainstream Republicans. On that basis Jack would be shown the door as unceremoniously as Joseph Crowley was.
Would the late Norman Thomas a fellow socialist Presbyterian preacher and six-time presidential candidate be that surprised by the unvarnished emergence of another democratic upstart? Reverend Thomas famously prophesied that socialism would stealthily (and incrementally) arrive in America wearing the mantle of the Democratic Party. In the modern era it emerged with the failed campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2015. That movement has gained a latest toehold with the unexpected victory of millennial Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The white and blue has been drained from the Democratic Party but the redat its metastasized heartremains.
