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DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!The right really does fear AOC for some reason. Like they can't really marginalize her in a way that'll make her just go away.Ironbite-that scares them.
I'm at a political science conference and can safely report that political scientists don't really know what to make of @AOC, either.
I'll tell you what's going on. She represents ME. She represents everyone I know. She represents the normal people. She cares about OUR interests. In my lifetime I have NEVER felt this represented before in government. It's time for government to work for us, as it was intended. To all the people coming out of the woodwork to spew hate: I love that she represents you too, and that her policies will benefit you as well. I feel sorry for all those that can't or won't see this.
Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: “Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10. When you got home, your parents took $7 from you.” The students said: “That’s not fair!” Even 5th graders get it.
Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor:Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10.Then we taxed the billionaire in town because he’s making tons of money underpaying the townspeople.
It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?
Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.
There was also her schooling democracy-stealing former Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker on marginal tax rates after she suggested the moderate policy of a 70% marginal rate on income over $10,000,000:
Imagine the frothing rage. PRESIDENT Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Pres Cortez.
Life for the sake of life means nothing.
Stalin Killed Tens of millions of people. Hitler killed tens of millions of people. Mao killed tens of millions of people. AOC wants to restore the tax rates to where they were under Richard Nixon. Checks out. They are totally the same.
But I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where, where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong, and I think it's wrong, I, I think that it's wrong that, that a vast majority of the country does not make a living wage, I think it's wrong that you can work a hundred hours and not feed your kids, I think it's wrong that, that corporations like Wal-Mart can, and, and Amazon can get paid, they can get paid for the, by our gov--by the government, essentially, experience a wealth transfer from the public for paying people less than a minimum wage, and it's, it not only doesn't make economic sense, but it doesn't make moral sense, and it doesn't make societal sense.