Fascist Wretch AOC Celebrates Censorship "Good Thing Happened Today'

Anyone who doesn't support the constitutional rights they swore to uphold should be removed from office and barred from ever running again.

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Progressive Duped

Here's an idea, next time (like say with Tulsi perhaps?) do a little research before worshiping at the alter of CHANGE! and maybe you wont feel like crap when your hero turns out to be a fugazi.

AOC, Bush and Bowman #OccupyCongress With Their Own Staffers

 

While Twitter promotes their obviously staged little street theater performances, AOC, Bush and Bowman pretend to care about people about to be made homeless in a jaded, cynical PR move all the while delivering speeches to their own staffers. They are literally preaching to the choir.

Alt-left Industrial Media Complex is SHOCKED AOC Turned Out to be a Fraud

For the rest of us this is filed under the "no. Not shocking at all" category.

Corporations See a Different Kind of “Green” in Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”

by Whitney Webb, Mint Press News
 

There is nothing “progressive” about the Ocasio-Cortez-promoted “New Green Deal,” which is little more than an industry-driven, neoliberal solution that will not solve issues like climate change and poverty but instead empower their underlying cause: U.S. oligarchy.

In recent weeks, support from progressives and establishment liberals has been pouring in for the “Green New Deal,” a plan largely promoted by U.S. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. The plan claims that it seeks to “transform the U.S. economy in an effort to fight climate change” that would ostensibly push the U.S. from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy in a little over a decade.
 
Though Ocasio-Cortez and others have claimed that the measure is “anti-establishment” and has been mocked by the corporate media, it has recently gained the support of over 30 House Democrats and won endorsements from mainstream media pundits such as Van Jones of CNN. 

Jones — who is a senior fellow at the Clinton-connected, John Podesta-led think tank the Center for American Progress, and a former Obama adviser — recently called the Ocasio-Cortez-promoted plan “the smartest, most practical idea in U.S. politics to address two urgent problems: climate change and poverty.”...

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"Green New Deal" is a Neoliberal Nightmare and Must Be Exposed

As many have speculated about the global warming campaign, AOC's "Green New Deal" panel proposal appears to be geared toward setting up another TARP bailout or ObamaCare fraud written by business insiders and neoliberal technocrats. And according to even it's supporters, the proposal she has on her website seems to suggest a remake of our entire society from the ground up, written by Big Business, of Big Business and for Big Business.

Ocasio-Cortez' Neoliberal "Green New Deal" is a New TARP Bailout and ObamaCare Rolled into One

by Scott Creighton

Like ObamaGod before her, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a neoliberal and she is being groomed for higher office, of that you can be sure.

She was trained in the art of neoliberal economic ideology and international relations at Boston University, one of the most expensive schools in the country (est. $300,000 for her degree) and one that exclusively teaches neoliberal economic ideology in it's economics department. She graduated with honors. Apparently the neoliberal staff (4 of the most highly respected neoliberal economists of the world teach there) thought very highly of her and have high hopes for her future.

Then she started pretending she was just a socialist "girl from the Bronx" because let's face it, claiming to be a silver-spooner centrist neoliberal wont get anyone elected to anything these days. And that's just a fact.

As we come to learn that Big Oil actually helped write the Paris Climate Accord in an effort (successful) to ensure the accord was a "market based" approach, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has submitted for congressional approval her own (somewhat plagiarized) version of the Green Party's so-called "Green New Deal" and guess what? It's almost entirely "market based" as well.

When you bring "industry insiders" into any political process these days, what you end up with is the repeal of Glass-Steagall or TARP or ObamaCare the endless Global War OF Terror because industry insiders want to make sure, they are there to make sure, their industry's top institutions will profit from said process to the fullest extent possible.

Mussolini had a name for that type of governance but we can't mention anymore kinda like an addict can't look in the mirror... but it starts with an "f" if that helps.

Four Real Protests from Around the Globe and One Fake One Here at Home

 by Scott Creighton

First the real ones:

Don't Be Conflicted: Ocasio-Cortez is a TRAINED NEOLIBERAL and a FRAUD

Folks are conflicted about Ocasio-Cortez' support of all things Corporatist DNC inlcuding her backing of Andrew Cuomo. They shouldn't be. She's a TRAINED NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIST and a FRAUD and calling her out for what she is doing is exactly what the REAL LEFT needs to hear.

Progressives Soured on Gillum and Ocasio: When Hopey-Changy Goes Terribly Wrong

You can't "CHANGE" the Democratic Party from within. You can't "CHANGE" the system from within. Mr. Smith goes goes to Washington and gets neutered, bought-off and replaced with a pod-person. Stop falling for this crap and stop following those that do.

An Open Letter to ‘Socialists’ Who Might be Fronting for the Democratic Party

by Quetzal Cáceres from Black Agenda Report

Any socialist who thought, as I did, that Ocasio-Cortez would be our socialist champion should watch the entire 27-minute PBS Firing Line interview to get a sense of just how bad this train wreck might be.

“In the long term, will focusing on running ‘socialist’ candidates within the Democratic Party impede building an independent socialist movement and organization?”

First, a confession. When I learned of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory against incumbent dinosaur Joe Crowley, I was, as embarrassing as it is to admit, moved to tears. I’m the emotional type, take after my mom. I’m also a Xicanx, a life-long socialist, and was overwhelmed to see a young brown woman step up and raise the socialist banner. Now, however, as weeks have passed since her primary victory, as she has made the rounds of the talk show circuit, been feted by progressive circles, interviewed by corporate and “Left” media, and shilled for Democratic Party candidates, she has said enough (and sometimes more disturbingly not said enough) to make one wonder if she’s making up this whole socialism thing as she goes along.

A further confession. I donated to her campaign. So I receive emails and will share her message, the same message she articulated at the recent Democratic Party love fest, NetRoots Nation.

“One wonder if she’s making up this whole socialism thing as she goes along.”

Ocasio-Cortez reassures us that she wants to bring back the Democratic Party of old. Okay, maybe not the Democratic Party of slavery, but you know what I mean, the real Democratic Party. The Democratic Party of the New Deal and FDR, of the Great Society, the War on Poverty and Lyndon B. Johnson (and Dr. King too because we all know how much the Democratic Party and LBJ loved Dr. King). Yeah, that Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez wants us to “come home.” Along with her ‘socialism’ message, it is hard to tell If she is also making this up by herself, or if she is receiving tutelage from someone in the Democratic Party’s Fairytale & Children’s Section.Ocasio-Cortez is messaging the Blue version of “Make America Great Again.”

The progressive ideas and programs of the New Deal were not, as Ocasio-Cortez claims, bestowed upon the nation in 1940 by the Democratic Party and FDR; these ideas and programs were the sour medicine co-opted from the decades-long struggle of socialist, communist, and anarchist organizations and swallowed by FDR and the Democratic Party as a life-preserving measure to counter the threat of capitalism’s demise. The New Deal was, in FDR’s own estimation, what saved the capitalist system— although one might argue WWII played just as crucial a role. Notwithstanding the positive gains of the New Deal, it was still in form and substance racist. It gave a pass to Jim Crow and lynchings, and ignored large sectors of Black, Mexican, Native, Puerto Rican, and women workers. In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Mexican adults and children (some estimate well over a million) were rounded up and ethnically cleansed from the U.S. For plenty of marginalized people, the New Deal was a shitty deal. Here’s another thing: The Johnson Administration was also racist as f__k.

“It is hard to tell If she is receiving tutelage from someone in the Democratic Party’s Fairytale & Children’s Section.”

The Voting Rights Act? Last I checked it’s been all but eviscerated. Black voters and other voters of color have been purged from voter rolls and the Democratic Party hasn’t responded— except to blame the Russians for losing the election to Trump. But even back in 1964 at the Democratic National Convention, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, Johnson played an infamously active role in scuttling efforts by the racially-integrated Mississippi Freedom Democrat Party to be seated instead of the racist, avowedly segregationist contingent from that state.
And the Civil Rights Act? Do we really have robust civil rights when Black and Brown folks are disproportionately funneled into the prison-industrial complex or killed by police with impunity? The Democratic Party has enabled the expansion of the carceral state and furthered the militarization of policing, civil rights be damned.

Even the ‘best’ of the Johnson Administration, the so-called War on Poverty, has received undeserved praise. As Harvard historian Elizabeth Hinton reveals in From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Johnson’s War on Poverty laid down some of the important ground work for the eventual War on Crime and War on Drugs.

“The Democratic Party has enabled the expansion of the carceral state and furthered the militarization of policing, civil rights be damned.”

The War on Poverty also served as a siphoning mechanism for the co-optation of potential young radicals and leaders of color (sound vaguely familiar?) into “anti-poverty” programs, the non-profit industrial complex, and the Democratic Party machine. In the 90s, Democrat Bill Clinton would ultimately take the criminalization of poor people to even greater heights, skyrocketing the prison population with Hillary’s “super predators,” disproportionately of course Black and Brown. Obama kept the ball and chain rolling, while offering Black men the sage advice to pull their pants up.
“Hey, hey, LBJ, how many babies did you kill today?” Did Ocasio-Cortez somehow forget about the U.S. war on Vietnam? A war that was escalated by both Democratic Party presidents Kennedy and Johnson and saw disproportionate casualties from Black and Brown communities. Where in all of Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign rhetoric is the centrality, yes I do mean the utter centrality, of reigning in the U.S. war machine? This is not a side issue, not at least for any credible self-avowed socialist.

“Democrat Bill Clinton would ultimately take the criminalization of poor people to even greater heights.”

Dr. King got it right in 1967 when he called out the U.S. as the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet, when he made the inescapable connection between that violence over there and the violence over here— the common roots of killing, racism and poverty at home and abroad. Johnson could not have been more displeased with King. He hated King. As anyone who reads more than Democratic Party mythology knows, King was a pariah during his last year of life, ostracized by the Democratic Party machine, as well as by other liberal institutional appendages of the Democratic Party.

Ocasio-Cortez has a unique opportunity to educate people about the forgotten history of socialist struggle in this country and the ugly workings of capitalism, past and present, which by definition must include an honest assessment of the Democratic Party as one of the two political party heads of the U.S. capitalist beast. But Ocasio-Cortez is completely and incompetently blowing it. Any socialist who thought, as I did, that she would be our socialist champion should watch the entire twenty-seven-minute PBS Firing Line interview to get a sense of just how bad this train wreck might be. Is she naive? Is she simply in over her head, woefully ignorant of a genuine Left analysis of political issues and history?

“Where in all of Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign rhetoric is the centrality, yes I do mean the utter centrality, of reigning in the U.S. war machine?”

The problem, of course, is not this or that Democratic or Republican politician or administration. The problem is capitalism. One is self-delusional and disingenuous to view a party’s very questionable ‘greatest hits’ separate from its otherwise pathetic body of work within a sick, parasitic system.
But somehow, self-avowed socialists would have us believe that the actual Democratic Party— the war and pillage party of the Indian killer Andrew Jackson, the party of slavery, of President Wilson and the resurgence of the KKK, of Jim Crow, of lynchings, of those who enabled the triumph of fascism in 1930s Spain, of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps, of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of the post-WWII decimation of the Left in Italy and Greece, of the leveling of half of Korea and the deaths of millions, of the Bay of Pigs, of the horror of millions slaughtered in Vietnam, of the expansion of the prison-industrial complex, of the use of depleted uranium in the former Yugoslavia, of the devastation caused by NAFTA, of the half million dead Iraqi children due to sanctions, of the expansion of the police surveillance state, of the deportation of millions of migrants, of drone targeted assassinations, of regime change complete with mayhem and 21st century slavery in Libya, of the nod and wink to the coup in Honduras— the Democratic Party of all this and much, much more is somehow not supposed to be the real Democratic Party.

“One is self-delusional and disingenuous to view a party’s very questionable ‘greatest hits’ separate from its otherwise pathetic body of work.”

It’s truly Orwellian. The real Democratic Party is supposed to be something akin to a grade school civics project and its real history might be found in a textbook on U.S. mythology titled something asinine like The Great Democratic Pageant...


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