By SJ
Otto
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez gets constant attention from conservatives at Fox (Faux) News. The station and its many conservative supporters have kept up
a steady barrage of accusations and insults. I knew conservatives would be on
the attack when a democratic socialist, from Democratic Socialists of America,
got elected. Not only does she not embrace Fox’s
ultra-conservative views, she dares to support socialism. AOC, as they call
her, is like the fly in the conservative ointment. Fox, the Republican Party and conservative pundits have had to
watch their perfect conservative government/society/culture that they have
owned now for the last 30 years contaminated by progressive ideas. Some of
their sacred tenants, such as unconditional support for Israel
Now
they have an actual democratic socialist in office and they are working
overtime to try and discredit her. They have also gone after fellow Democratic
newcomer Ilhan Omar with the same lines of attack.
One of their
main tactics is to attack what she says with indignation. Their latest attack
is on her claim that the
U.S.
The one thing this pundit
forgot is that her statement is true. Treatment of people, being put in cages,
children taken from their parents and children dying from lack of adequate health
care is consider concentration camp treatment. Only people on the far right
would be so outraged by such a comparison. And AOC is not the only person to
accuse President Donald Trump of being Hitleresque. A lot of people, including
myself, have made that comparison.
For the most part AOC has not
allowed these people to rattle her. She has refused to apologise to these
conservatives for her comments.[2]
She was right not to do that. To do otherwise would fall into their traps of
trying to make her look insensitive and allowing them to seem right in their
attacks.
The next form of attack is the
constant attempts to make AOC look uneducated and unintelligent. That latest
attack comes from Rush Limbaugh:[3]
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
D-N.Y., may be
addicted to attention over her latest controversial comments, or she's "stupid,"
said conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
"I think she’s just having fun watching
people blow up," he said Wednesday on his radio show. "If she does
believe it, then she’s so stupid that there’s nothing to do about it."
Quite often conservatives have
had authors and various pundits claim they know more about a subject than she
does, just because they have written a book on a subject that disagrees with
her opinion. For example AOC said of President Ronald Reagan’s legacy, printed
in an outfit called Townhall:
“he
"pitted" whites against browns and blacks.
"And one perfect example – a perfect example
– of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working class
Americans against brown and black working Americans in order to just screw over all working
class Americans is Reaganism in the '80s when you started talking about
'welfare queens,'" Ocasio-Cortez said during an interview at the
conference. "So you think about this image, 'welfare queens,' and what he
[Reagan] was really trying to talk about was – he was painting this photo, he's
like painting this really resentful vision of essentially black women
who were doing nothing that were sucks on our country, right? And it's the
whole tragedy of these comments type thinking where it's like because these one
specific group of people that you were already kind of subconsciously prime to resent, you
give them a different reason, that's not explicit racism, but still rooted in
racist caricature, it gives people a logical, a "logical" reason to
say, 'Oh, yeah, no. Toss out the whole safety net.”
Then
we are supposed to believe this guy is automatically right because he has
written all these books on Reagan.
“To counter that New
York Times best selling author Craig Shirley has written numerous books
on President Ronald Reagan and his presidency. He is a member of the Board of
Governors of the Reagan Ranch and is considered one of the best Reagan
historians out there. Shirley decided to challenge Ocasio-Cortez on her
statements about the Gipper by providing facts about Reagan and his presidency:”
This
is a real common tactic they use against her. They act as if Reagan is a hero
and that only someone uneducated or just plain unknowledgeable about the “facts”
would dare say such things. Reagan is supposed to be a working class hero and
that is supposed to be a fact. In fact all of AOC’s attacks on Reagan were
quite accurate. He did make fools of America ’s
working class, especially those who supported him—while he lowered the buying
power of America
AOC
has weathered these attacks rather well. Many novice politicians would have
thrown in the towel by now, of simply collapsed from their various attacks. She
is quite intelligent and has handled her new job with a great deal of
professionalism.
It is
unfortunate that Fox News and conservative
pundits have such a large and powerful media conglomeration. News/opinion
outlets as mine are quite small and I have only a few readers. They seem to
command millions of ditto heads that hang on their every word.
Still
AOC is doing well and outlets as mine will continue to challenge Fox and other conglomerates.
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