Ocasio-Cortez, the Socialist Sock Puppet

I’m not too proud to admit that a small part of me was excited by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory, this past month. As a millennial woman with libertarian leanings, I counted her win a small victory. Who doesn’t like a good punch delivered to Washington's bureaucracy, now and again? #termlimits

The initial humility following her victory proved temporary, as her haughtiness—in interviews, in social media, and in speeches— grows at an alarming rate. She targeted minorities and millennials throughout her campaign and, frankly, they deserve a refund. Ocasio-Cortez reverberates the same falsified rhetoric of socialism all while flaunting her BU degree in economics; when asked to explain some of the key tenets of her outlandish platform, though, she consistently fails to offer a coherent explanation of her ideals. It’s almost as if her socialist policies have no economic basis…

After perusing some of Ocasio-Cortez’s more cringe-worthy interviews (and trust me, there are plenty), I can safely conclude that she is not the representative young women need. 

National Review appears the sole major news outlet recognizing Ocasio-Cortez’s incompetence. A recent interview with Trevor Noah, notably, exposes how unqualified she is to be running for office. In this interview, alone, she confused the recent increase in defense spending with the entire annual cost of the military and implied that the population of the United States was around 800 million. She blundered in another interview as she claimed that unemployment rates have depleted “because everyone has two jobs” and because employees are simply working more hours. She denounced Israel as invaders of Palestine and, recognizing her blunder on national television, quickly backtracked and claimed that she is ill-informed on the subject. You don’t say.

If these errors in speech aren't compelling enough, today she rallied her followers in Deerborn, Michigan to join her in "throw[ing] down" with Congress on Sunday: “I need you to send them with me because when we roll through as a posse, we can throw down. We can get it done. That’s how we do it in the Bronx. ‘Roll deep,’ as they say.” 

Whether she’s fear-mongering her brigade of Bernie supporters or just spewing the socialist junk she gathered from her pseudo-Economics degree, Ocasio-Cortez has proven a major disappointment to hopeful millennials, regardless. Her innumerable blunders upon her election show that she's not the free thinking visionary she claims to be but, rather, is a mere sock puppet regurgitating Bernie's failed platform.