Authored by Cabot Philips via Campus Reform,
Last month, 28 year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the world by defeating incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley to earn the Democratic nomination in New York’s 14th Congressional District.
Ocasio-Cortez gained notoriety nationwide not just for her youth, but for her unabashed embrace of Democratic Socialism.
In her official platform, Ocasio-Cortez offers support for free college, “housing as a human right”, “medicare for all,” and a mandatory minimum living wage.
Wanting to know if her supporters liked the idea of Democratic Socialism, and if they’d support the government offering these services for free, I headed to Ocasio-Cortez’s district, in Astoria, NY.
People on the street were quick to offer support for Ocasio-Cortez’s brand of socialism, and overwhelmingly supported her vision for the district.
They were more hesitant, however, to offer ideas for how to pay for all of the free things that Ocasio-Cortez is promising.
“I don’t know where the money would come from, but they can figure it out,” one person stated confidently.
“Oh, God… Us, I guess,” conceded another.
One supporter seemed to think Americans would be okay with paying higher taxes, saying “with a good idea, and a good reason to spend their tax money, people wouldn’t actually mind paying more taxes.”
Another admitted that they’re not quite sure what it is that they like about Ocasio-Cortez’s economic philosophy, but insisted that “I just know that democratic socialist is better than conservative.”
What would these people think when asked how socialism is working in Venezuela?
Watch the full video to find out!
These uninformed voters have no idea that their freedom is at stake!
All they understand is freebies… And do not realize the taxes will climb higher to pay for equal richest, there is no such thing as equal richness, because the government will run out of other people’s money and then everyone will be equally poor.. Just like all the other thrid world nations.
The unfortunate thing as Cortez has never truly experienced socialism. She needs to go to Venezuela and live there for a while to truly understand the plight of socialism. As they say, what happens when the government runs out of peoples money. I sounds great, but what do you do with people who want socialism…free everything…but don’t want to work for it. Just live on those of us who do. We already have that in American.
true everyone comes to the USA because we are a free capitalistic country!! welfare for the poor, work for those that want to work, social security for those that work, freedom to speak our mind, freedom to keep our money!!, most poor get a free education that the middle class has to pay for,.
Then there is the issue of Medicare which the working class has been paying all of our life and continue to pay after we retire. I proposed that if she wants Medicare for everyone then every single person that paid for it all their life should sue for their money back every penny ever deducted out of your pay check and of your social security check you will have enough money for quality medical care for the rest of your life and not count on another on Medicare. Because the quality of the services will no longer be the same. Plus many doctors will no longer accept it.
For those of you who believe in Democratic Socialism, PLEASE, PLEASE move to Venezuela or Cuba for a year or two to see what really happens under socialism then come back to the U.S. and say how terrible Capitalism is. And if you still think democratic socialism is so wonderful, then, by all means, stay there to live.
The problem is those peoples, that have no idea what are talking about, that just repeat as parrots what the media and idots as this Cortes, or Pelosi or MW, have a vote power, will vote and vote with no education about the matter and not knowing. too stupid to think, One eve say that “we have to learn from the history” ??? is that an idiot or what? That she ever read something about U.S.S.R?
My goodness there’s some stupid people
I spent 4 years in Cuba 1960-1964, spent a lot of time with the Cuban people who worked on the base, every one of them wanted the USA to over throw Castro. ( Except the bus driver, who was a Castro spy ). The stories they told us were horrific, castro’s men would come in the night and take people away, never to be seen again. Their government would take most of what they earned, we would buy stuff from the usa and hand it to them, not one of them had anything more then the cloths on their backs.
And then there is China. The Chinese learned that you can’t take everything from those that produce and be able to feed and clothe everyone. Example: Chinese farmers in the past had to give 85% of their produce to the government to be redistributed to the people. The farmers could only keep 15% to sell on their own to make ant money. So, the farmers produced very little. The government then decided to put more land into production. However the only land left was very marginal at best, usually too steep or rocky to produce anything of worth. This led to massive erosion and resource loss that caused massive death and destruction down stream. The government at long last sent people to the U. S. and saw how we were able to produce so much from our farms. They then realized that they had to reverse their system and let the farmers keep most of their crops to sell on their own. Now the farmers keep 85% of their crops and give 15% to the government. AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? Lo and behold, the farmer’s productivity went through the roof and the Chinese people now had enough to eat and to spare. The Chinese did the same with all other businesses and industry. Now, the Chinese economy is second only to the U.S. And all of those European countries that had socialism as their base economic models have now pulled back from their socialism and re-instituted capitalism. They realized that Margret Thatcher was right about socialism: Socialism is fine until you run out of other peoples money. And Winston Churchill said that in Socialism everyone gets to participate in shared misery. Therefore, all of you budding socialists beware. All you will do is pull this country down and all of your precious dreams will be a nightmare. Have a good day.
National Geographic did story on Venezuela & ALL their deficits approximately a year ago. In that story, they mentioned that 85-90% of the people in that country currently have NO ACCESS to healthcare, in addition to All their other problems. Apparently, those Democratic Socialists are in DENIAL, when they state that disasters like those seen in Venezuela, wouldn’t happen in USA, if they actually got the “masses” to embrace Socialism.
KNOW why those socialist countries in EU are still “afloat”? They’ve got the USA to Protect them, so they don’t have to “waste” tax dollars on DEFENSE! Got NEWS for EU-> the FREE RIDE is over. I really don’t care if EU has enough to provide for ALL their Unvetted “migrants”.