The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Jeez, they get it!

Somebody's getting it.

With A Few Tweets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Changed Everything

[Why did they name her after a city? Which Alexandria? Never mind.]

She moved the national conversation to the left so fast and so hard, it gave Fox News whiplash.

. . . .

The loathing Fox News, AM Hate Radio, and right wing hate sites have for AOC is undeniable. And now we know why:

Earlier this month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on national television and said that the United States should tax incomes above $10 million at a 70 percent rate
Over the weekend, pollsters from the Hill–HarrisX asked voters, “Would you favor or oppose a tax proposal that would apply a 70% rate to the 10 millionth dollar and beyond for individuals making $10 million a year or more in reportable income?” — and 59 percent said yes.
They're obsessing with her and her dancing because they're dirty old men and she's super-hot.

That gets her lots of attention in the media, social and otherwise, and even from those same dirty old men.

The result?

Her tweets get attention, maybe second only to  Bozo's.

And of course hers make way more sense.

In some ways she's too far left for me.

But not in all ways.

Not by any means.

By the time she's old enough to run for president she'll have plenty of relevant experience in government and likely an extensive and useful network of friends and allies.

The right will hate her but it often seems like they just hate leading Democratic women.

Hillary was rather centrist, for a Democrat, on money matters, and not especially leftish on anything.

And the right invented the politics of personal destruction just for her and her husband.

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