Democrats haven’t grown up from Woke 1, they’ve – Latest News
Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make her huge egg-freezing announcement to attempt to bury her “Woke 1 was crazy” debacle?
Because we’re realizing we went too simple on her about it: The truth is, the most important downside isn’t how her remark wrote off the left’s previous toxicity, however how it skips over the numerous methods during which the whole Democratic Party has grown crazier.
Bad enough that AOC pretends 2020 was simply an invigorating time when “the doors were really open” to visionaries who wished to “entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place,” a gimmick that by some means is meant to make everybody overlook Black Lives Matter rioting in addition to precise defunding of police.
Not to say how a lot of that insanity — specifically, the “decarceration” insurance policies that dictate not locking up practically all criminals — continues to information public coverage in a lot of Blue America.
Nor the widespread adoption of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion insurance policies that meant bare, excessive racial discrimination, a lot of which stays in place — particularly in academia, and even in medical colleges.
Somehow, we’re speculated to overlook all that, simply because AOC, now a attainable 2028 presidential run, is making an attempt to look more sober and pragmatic.
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But if that had been true, then AOC and the remaining of the laborious left would show some proof of having moderated their positions, after they’re really crazier than ever.
They’ve turned laborious in opposition to Israel, with practically half of House Dems lately voting to cut off all assist to the Jewish state — and with Ocasio-Cortez herself calling to dam funds for the Defense Department (within the center of a battle) as a result of of weird conspiracy theories about Israel taking control of the Pentagon.
Leftist Dems have stopped chanting “Defund the police,” however they nonetheless need to shift funding away from standard policing and towards empty “community-based solutions,” simply as beneath “Woke 1.”
Democrats haven’t backed off an inch on the craziest “gender” insurance policies, both: Don’t dare query “trans rights.”
And whereas “Abolish ICE” feels like Dems have an subject with how one company is run, what the still-rising left actually means is abolish all enforcement of immigration law: They need to “legalize migration,” which means open borders — after which grant voting rights to everybody.
And of course the Democratic Socialists of America platform requires eliminating not solely the Electoral College and the Senate, but additionally lowering the president and the Supreme Court to mere instruments of a national legislature.
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Nor is the common Democratic Party significantly better: Supposed moderates like James Carville and Pete Buttigieg are endorsing plans to pack the Supreme Court and make states out of Puerto Rico and Washington DC so as to hand the celebration 4 assured Senate seats.
Yes, sane Democrats demur from embracing all these radical plans, however few dare call out how most of the celebration is rushing headlong towards Crazy Town.
We perceive the public’s discontent with President Donald Trump and different Republicans, however the issue for voters this fall is that the Democrats refuse to offer something resembling a sane different.
