Silly AOC: The 'Right' to a Home Comes Before 'Privilege To Make a Profit'
The left always chooses rhetoric over substance. Always.
Rather than talk about when life begins, the left calls pro-life activists “sexists.”
Rather than talk about the sustainability of the number of illegal migrants, they call immigration reformers “racists.”
Rather than talk a wise tax plan, they call fiscal conservatives, “greedy bigots.”
The left’s utter bankruptcy of ideas leaves liberals with little else but misdirection and name-calling.
But at least they make it sound so, so sweet.
For instance, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at a recent town hall in the Bronx, told her audience that housing should be legislated as a human right, according to the radically progressive Mother Jones.
Like a pied piper leading mushy brains to their demise, AOC pulls her liberal flute to her lips and plays a familiar tune.
It’s a melody that sounds good in the beginning, but in the end is foolishness.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): “Our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit.” pic.twitter.com/B1qSCK57OQ
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 4, 2019
The tune has two parts. The first movement of AOC’s concerto — I call it “Sweet Sounding Stupidness” — proposes a course of action that sounds attractive to those with no sense of how free markets work, no understanding that all of the government’s money is the taxpayers’ money, no realization that history has proven these ideas to be an unworkable mirage.
But the danger of the first movement is that it often avoids analysis in the marketplace of ideas because of the terror of the second movement. The second movement — I call this one “The Straw Man Cometh” — sends otherwise courageous opponents into their bunkers.
Though harder to oppose, the melody for this part is easy to identify.
It looks like this:
Oh, so you hate women?
Oh, so you don’t like children to learn?
Oh, so you don’t want women to have good health care?
Oh, so you don’t like people that don’t look like you?
Oh, so you like children to live in poverty?
Oh, so you think people of color only commit the crimes?
Oh, so you support greedy cronyism?
Ugh. You get the point. Not a policy argument in sight. Leftists always choose bombshell buzzwords and identity politics over a discussion of substance. Always.
And as she played her flute, AOC’s tune struck that familiar note.
You can hear the second movement now.
Oh, so you hate homeless people? Oh, so you should live in your house and not care about people less fortunate than yourself?
Oh, so you should embrace greed and never apologize for your roof privilege?
It is time that we stop scattering. It is time that we stand up and say that we can be compassionate and against entitlements.
We can be Christian and generously care for the needy. In fact, we must. We just realize it must come from our own pockets as a result of a heart change and not yanked from our bank accounts by threat of force.
It isn’t that AOC lacks compassion. It is that she lacks sense on how to execute on a truly compassionate plan. So we should educate ourselves to make sure we are courageously ready for that conversation.
Don’t shy away. Speak up. We must expose the darkness with the light. Much is at stake. Many are listening to her flute and following her down a treacherous path.
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