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In many ways, the Congresswoman from New York City, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, is a grift, oh I mean, gift, that just keeps on giving.
She seems to have a day-to-stupid-comment ratio of one-to-one. Actually, one of the more memorable clap backs to Cortez came courtesy of billionaire Elon Musk.In summary, Cortez went after Musk for the crime of being successful and self-made. He simply replied back: “Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy”.
Now, AOC seems to be at it again. She has expressed doubt that she could ever become President. The reason? Well, apparently it lies well beyond her grasp because she is a woman.
So, it is now being reported that:
In an interview with GQ magazine, published Wednesday, the congresswoman said her experience has “given [her] a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women.”
“And they hate women of color,” she continued, per the New York Post.
“People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September,” she continued. “And that weighs very heavily on me. And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center.”
The New York lawmaker went on to express reservations that she could command enough support in the Democratic Party to shape its ideology and launch a bid for national office, pointing to internal opposition to her initiatives.
“Since I got here, literally day one, even before day one, I’ve experienced a lot of targeting diminishment from my party,” she said. “And the pervasiveness of that diminishment, it was all-encompassing at times. I feel a little more steady on my own two feet now… But would I say that I have the power to shift the elected federal Democratic Party? No.”
Deadline went on to report that:
“Sometimes little girls will say, ‘Oh, I want you to be president,’ or things like that,” Ocasio-Cortez told journalist Wesley Lowery. “It’s very difficult for me to talk about because it provokes a lot of inner conflict in that I never want to tell a little girl what she can’t do. And I don’t want to tell young people what is not possible. I’ve never been in the business of doing that. But at the same time…”
Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes that at this point in his conversation with the New York Representative “tears pooled in the corners of her eyes” as she spoke even more candidly.
“I hold two contradictory things [in mind] at the same time. One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible. But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center. This grip of patriarchy affects all of us, not just women; men, as I mentioned before, but also, ideologically, there’s an extraordinary lack of self-awareness in so many places. And so those are two very conflicting things. I admit to sometimes believing that I live in a country that would never let that happen.”
This habit of blaming one’s failure, or in the case, the possibility of a failure at the feet of one’s immutable characteristics is truly one of the main weapons of the Left. Weather it’s the organization known as Black Lives Matters blaming everything in the world on racism. As an aside, one wonders if the recent, let’s say, accounting errors, that have surfaced from BLM will be blamed on racism as well. The greatest crimes of identity politics must be judging oneself and others based on their immutable characteristics and not on the content of their character.
