Democratic-socialist and congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Democratic leadership in an interview released Tuesday, deriding the party as being stuck in the era of “soccer moms” and Furbies.
Transcript is as follows:
HOST: There are people who look at what you’re advocating and they say, “I know that we’ve lost a lot, but we shouldn’t go down this path. This is a recipe for failure.” What do you think makes them think that?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: So, what I honestly think that it is, is that we have not had a party that has been investing in its own future. So, we have people who are constantly fundraising for their own re-election. The average age of a House Democrat right now is 65 years old. We’re at the oldest point in American history. Not only are people feverishly working on their own re-election for their second or sometimes third decade, but there’s no investment in future leadership. Like, we’re putting all this money into state parties and those state parties aren’t working on aggressively investing in young people running in state assembly seats, state house seats so they can later go on to Congress. That is not happening. It’s certainly happening on the right, but it hasn’t been happening on the left.
So for me, I think what’s happening is that, you know, a lot of these folks were in their political heyday in third-way nineties politics and they were campaigning and they were really, kind of, connected most to an electorate when they were fighting these seats when they were campaigning most when we had more of an American middle class. So, I think that politically, this, like, upper-middle class is probably more moderate, but that upper-middle class doesn’t exist anymore in America. Thanks to the continued deregulation of Wall Street, thanks to the continued gutting of working and middle-class people, we need stronger champions. I don’t think that [Democrats] see exactly how rising income inequality has resulted in a very stark political reality and it has changed our political landscape. But, their heyday was in the 90s when kids had, like, Furbies, and soccer moms had, like, two vans.
HOST: Furbies and two vans!
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Yeah!
HOST: That’s the dream!
OCASIO-CORTEZ: That’s not America anymore!
source: breitbart.com
Can anyone make sense of her so-called argument? She leaves my brain spinning like a tornado.
Her base must be the undereducated 20 year old!
She is a big mistake.
She’s the best thing the Republicans have. I love this woman, please don’t stop babbling. There is a very simple explanation for her, you’re going to get people like this from a party whose symbol is a jackass!!!
Ashamed this twit has a twat. She will go down in the history books as “One ignorant Socialist bitch, who tried to destroy the greatest nation on earth, with her socialist bull shit.
Cortez speaks with no brain or common sense. Ignore her BS.
Young and stupid hoping to become old and dumb that is what she is advocating. Free speech, American Dream are things of the past to this individual. Give everyone everything and have them work for and accomplish nothing and they’ll be happy until the time comes to pay the bill and as always their children suffer and pay the price for Socialist / Communist beliefs.
I will try to get this right as best I can. She advocates open borders, Free college for everyone. A free Government CHECK for everyone, Free medical, Free housing?. Correct me if I a wrong, I thought I read she has a Degree in Economics?. So because not everyone has 2 vans and Furbies (whatever they are ). The U.S should ignore it’s founding principles and become a Socialist State. I shudder to think what her Foreign Affair policy might be, Oh lets not forget her military policy. 98% of this country are against her policies. The DEMS/Soc Party are just to scared to say she don’t represent the party or DOE’S she?
She sounds like a moron who would love to boss us around.
She could make a fortune in sales. She apparently went door to door selling herself in a district she doesn’t even live in. Her degree should have been in marketing.