Ron opines on why AOC is the way she is. Summation? Ignorance and indoctrination.
Don’t wanna talk ‘bout politics. So I ain’t a’gonna. Somethin completely different instead.
Several times recently I’ve mentioned that AOC (Ocasio-Cortez) isn’t exactly stupid. From what I can see, her brain works fine and if given a competency test in abstract and/or critical thinking, she’d do o.k. . . . you know, following instructions on how to do or make somethin, assemble a pre-fab computer desk, get the proper ingredients and make a great shepherd’s pie or Stromboli or pineapple upside-down cake.
I mean, hell . . . you wouldn’t last very long as a bartender if you couldn’t follow instructions and remember stuff. And she DOES have a degree from a fairly prestigious university. So she ain’t eggzackly a moron.
She’s simply a product of what our education system has become. She’s been indoctrinated in propaganda, steeped in balderdash, and certified in ignorance. Her instructors have been socialists, or worse, who taught her the same old mantras they chanted when they were working on their MAs and PhDs, and she learned them well enough to get her own degree without the slightest idea of how things work IRL.
AOC graduated cum laude from Boston University with the bachelor’s in economics and international relations. She also accomplished some noteworthy projects in high school in science and engineering, even having a small asteroid named after her by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory (23238 Ocasio-Cortez).
She interned in the immigration department for Ted Kennedy’s tenure and has been on or associated with several institutes, organizations, and committees related to Latino issues as they related to immigration and education. And running for public office ain’t the easiest thing in the world to succeed at . . . so she CAN’T be lazy OR stupid.
But she’s basically a progressive ‘bot.’ Her teachers were liberals, her professors were liberals, and she worked for Kennedy, Clinton, and Sanders. So what happened was that she got programmed, not educated. She got entrenched, not experienced. She got trained, not taught. And now she’s simply regurgitating the distortions hand-fed to her by the system.
She makes foxpaws with phrases such as “concentration camps” because she never actually learned the truth about them. She can’t see that words and phrases have not only strict denotations but often very powerful connotations.
And she’s not alone in this – Ilhan Omar, clearly brainwashed by her Islamic culture, sees nothing wrong with blaming Jews and White men for all the world’s problems when Israel offers Muslims freedoms their own religion denies them. In her native country, Omar would be compelled to keep her mouth shut in public. Now, with the freedoms offered by our system, she wants to run her mouth to change the US into an Islamic insect mound where she’s compelled to keep her mouth shut.
Technically AOC’s right about a concentration camp being essentially a detention center, but nobody ever made clear to her the emotional baggage that goes along with the connotation of deprivation, starvation, anatomical experimentation, subjugation, and extermination, not to mention slavery . . . all of which are powers of 10 removed from what US Border Patrol and ICE agents do with border jumpers.
AOC’s mental development has been like juice from the best wine grapes collected in a 55-gallon barrel originally used for shipping fertilizer, subjected to extremes of heat and cold at various intervals, stored in discarded plastic milk bottles, and left to age in a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Embarcadero district.
One of the best examples of her lack of common-knowledge education interfering with her critical-thinking logic was her instructing an MSNBC Forum that the 22nd Amendment was passed by right-wingers to prevent Franklin Roosevelt from seeking re-election.
She actually said, “They had to amend the Constitution to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected.”
(If Dimocrats has super majorities, how did the Republicans amend the Constitution? – GOC)
To her, that was fact, truth, reality . . . because that’s what she’d been taught. It’s one of those “You have your truth and I have my truth” episodes, very much like Pelosi, or Schumer, or Nadler, or Comey, or Sanders, or O’Rourke, or Clinton would use.
The thing is, AOC probably believes that what she said WAS factual because one of her professors taught it to her that way. But the real truth is that FDR died during his 4th term in April 1945, and the 22nd Amendment wasn’t even proposed until 2 years later in 1947 and not ratified until 1951.
That professor was either similarly victimized and believed the false narrative or was deliberately misleading AOC as a student in his or her class. And the problem is that tenured professors can blather all the propaganda they like to defenseless students because they can’t be fired for it.
Watching AOC speak or reading her messages on social media platforms limiting the number of characters/words she can use, you see quickly that her brain works fine, but she’s so steeped in the nonsense of the “My Truths” she’s been taught that she genuinely believes the fake info she puts out, just as she was trained to do.
She doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and although her brain tends to think logically, it does so with incomplete and inaccurate data, making her come across as “stupid” to those of us who actually read the books and know the facts or lived the life and rejected the fertilizer.
Her constant immersion in groupthink and the hysteria-du-jour along with the approval and support of radical leftwingers eager to discredit anyone daring to accuse them of spreading fake news has convinced her that she doesn’t have to fact check her references, her examples, her “truths.”
And the REAL problem is that she typifies what’s coming out of our colleges and universities today from coast to coast. Not only are they brainwashed to the point that they’re dangerously wrong much of the time, they’ve never been required to find out if they know what they’re talking about before they do it publicly, so they just chant what they heard from their professors and wait for the applause from the trained seals in the audience.
Come on! GOC. Boston U. is not what I would call it a REMOTELY anywhere near a somewhat prestigious university. It is basically a piece of crxp. A degree from there isn’t worth the paper that it was printed on. Otherwise, why would somebody w/a degree from Boston U up being a Barista? That’s because no respectable employer would want to be caught adead having an employee w/a Boston U degree.
It is certainly many levels below Washington University in St. Louis.
My sister won a scholarship and graduated from Wash U. However, I dropped out after two semesters because the teachers there weren’t as good as the ones I had at the junior college I went to in my freshman and sophomore years. That was before I realized that one didn’t go to college to get an education. One went to get a piece of paper. Had I known that, I would have stuck it out even though I was burned out from going to school full time and working three part time jobs.
Not defending the place, but Boston U is tied with UCSD and Case Western, and above Tulane, University of Illinois, and UT Austin in national ranking of universities.
Even higher than Villanova, Lehigh. Syracuse, Purdue, Rutgers, SMU, BYU, and U of Miami, to name a few.
Must say, tho, after reading the article in chuck’s link (below) that their standards might be in danger.
Well Ron, about that degree. I think she bought it. She does not have the intelligence of an accountant. Or maybe it is fake. No degree at all. Why get the degree and be a bartender? Cortez is a fake. A plant. And on top of that, she is not bright Ron. I don’t care what you say.
It is hard for me to understand why anyone with an economics degree would believe in Socialism. I think she hired someone to take her classes for her. Since she didn’t actually do the schoolwork all she is capable of is being a bartender or a whore (a hack politician falls into that category).
“If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.” – F. Hayek.
She also seems to think democrats were the ones who passed the civil rights amendment…. I suppose Lincoln was a Democrat and Wallace a republican
OK Ron, so you think she is really smart, underneath that idiotic rhetoric, and indoctrinated spewback…I think she’s just a dumb cunt…(that’s my truth)!
It is interesting to see how this situation exposes how certain Jewish organizations have a vested interest in maintaining their monopoly on a specific definition of the term “concentration camp.” On the other hand, if we extend AOC’s logic further, it could be said that gov’t-run schools and day care centers are concentration camps too, which Democrats/progressives are all about.
Certain [special people] organizations? LOL! I’ll take who were the (((Bolsheviks))) for $400, Alex.
I can’t find any flaws in your position, Ron. What really scares me, though, is that she was taught by instructors who’d grown up exposed to differing views. AOC and most of her fellow recent graduates have been in the echo chamber for almost their whole lives so there’s little chance they can even recognize their mental constraints. Sadly, though, the facts won’t get in the way as they “wait for the applause from the trained seals in the audience” made up of the same kind of propagandized twits who’ve continued to support ’em.
regarding that prestigious university
boston u anyone see this?
https://clashdaily.com/2019/02/boston-college-offers-aoc-full-tuition-refund-if-she/
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so. – Ronald Reagan.
Never has Dutch been proven so right so often as with this current generation.
So right. The new crop of Ds are pretty much like her but with a little more self control.
Watched half the debates last night and it’s clear they learned nothing from the past.
Some of the dumb-ass ideas they peddled were:
Raise top income tax rates to 71% – money goes off-shore.
Restore business tax rates to before the cut – jobs go off-shore.
End private health insurance – goodbye campaign contributions.
And my favorite – transgender reproductive rights! Can anyone explain that one?
I would also say her parents were far-left goof-balls, or negligent in instilling values that could withstand the brainwashing. Parents (and grandparents) that engage and discuss the issues with their children leave a better impression than the teachers and professors.
The children may listen to, and even entertain, the leftist BS they are being fed. But it is always in the backs of their minds that, “wait a minute, that isn’t right”. Children who have not been so engaged or have Liberals for parents are pretty well set up to eat the BS hook, line and sinker.
“The real truth is that FDR died during his 4th term in April 1945, and the 22nd Amendment wasn’t even proposed until 2 years later in 1947 and not ratified until 1951”.
I think you are entirely missing the point.
If dead people can vote Democrat, early and often, then I can’t see why a dead Democrat can’t be voted in as President … So she DOES have a point. It is just a shame that FDR died so early.
(Dear God! The internet needs a sarcasm font).
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There are thinkers and then there are those critical thinkers who are not so easily duped by idiot indoctrinated professors and teachers. AOC reflects the average I.Q. of the general leftist millennial population. She is incapable of asking meaningful questions of which would inevitably lead her into the light. Therefore it would seem futile to consider her intelligent enough to grasp certain truths. This is the issue with the Bernie Sanders of the world. Their reality is not our reality. I’ll go a step further..Their brains are not wired for common sensed processes. Not one bit..
A clarification about her education.
This has been often mis-stated as an economics degree – it was NOT.
https://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2019/02/ocasio-cortez-economics-major.html
AOC’s degree is reported as a BA from Boston University. So, to recap, she has a BA in International Relations. It would appear that the Economics part is a TRACK – the International Economics, Business, and Politics Track, in fact.
Not as much mathematical knowledge needed. More about typical Leftist Grievance Coursework than Econ. She’s not stupid, but she clearly has both lack of knowledge in economic theory, and actual mis-education, with Leftist BS forming the greater part of her education. See the above post for more detail.
I’d bet REAL MONEY that if Occasionally-Conscious was required to take the SAME IQ TEST I took in about 1970 her results would come back as a high functioning moron.