The winner of the ‘Statist of the Month’ for July was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as voted on by you, the Liberty Block audience. Alexandria beat Incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley in a massive upset in the June Democratic Primary for NY’s 14th US House District. Crowley was a 20-year incumbent and current chair of the Democratic Caucus in the US House. His name was in the conversation for Speaker of the House in the event that the Democrats won a majority in the 2018 elections. Not only did Alexandria win the Democratic Primary against the powerful Crowley, but she beat him by 15 points.She has since been travelling all over and inspiring socialists to take the US away from its libertarian roots.
Alexandria, a 28 year old who was raised in the Bronx and Westchester County is open about being a Democratic Socialist. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Primary for president and she seems to share his socialist ideologies.
The district, which consists of Queens and the Bronx is half Latino and only 18% white. Considering that NYC is majority socialist and this district is even more Latino than the rest of the heavily Latino city, it’s not a major surprise to me that someone like Cortez was nominated by its Democratic voters.
Many on the right and the left seem anxious about her labeling herself as a ‘Democratic Socialist’. Some Democrats think that she’s being too obvious about their plan to make the US socialist like Venezuela and some Republicans are sad to see open Socialists have so much success and popularity in the US. I don’t care much, though.
In addition to giving up on the US as a whole, and therefore caring very little about US politics (I focus much more on NH), I don’t share the anxiety over her that many others seem to have. The fact is that at least a significant portion (if not half) of the US wants socialism. Around 99% want socialism to some degree, as evidenced by 100% of politicians in the US supporting at least some amount of forceful redistribution of wealth.
Cortez sets herself apart from the rest of the Democrats (and Republicans, to be honest) by being open about her ideology. She simply admits that she wants the US to be a national, socialist state. She wants the government to control healthcare and she wants incredibly high taxes and she condemns private property.
I hope that once the majority of Congress is comprised of ‘Democratic Socialists’, more Americans will wake up and realize that the US can’t be saved. If we all focus on saving one state, maybe our descendants can keep the flame of liberty alive.
The other nominees for Statist of the Month:
NH Government - Failing to protect NH businesses from being forced to collect sales taxes on behalf of other states
Tammy Baldwin - Proposing a law in an effort to gain votes from the conservative faction that comprises the Packers fanbase.
Scott Wallace - Proposing that people be punished for having more than 2 children
The Coin Flippers - Upon realizing that they no longer had any tickets, these silly cops couldn’t decide whether to arrest this driver or let her go - so they let the coin decide!
Santa Barbara - This city in Commiefornia passed a law that could cause people to be imprisoned for 6 months for the crime of offering a plastic straw to a customer
San Francisco - They are debating whether to prohibit companies from giving free lunch to employees
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