The Crazy Left

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a leading voice of the left who often says bizarre things. It's easy to laugh off her bizarre remarks, but that's a mistake. She is representative of the progressive movement, and her millions of social media followers give her tremendous power and influence on Capitol Hill.

In her latest interview with the New Yorker, AOC makes a number of wild claims. For example, she says that like the planet, our democracy only has 10 years left. She insists that we're heading back to the Jim Crow era, and she blames legislation that simply returns our election laws to the pre-pandemic era of 2019. 

She also suggested that the crime wave we're suffering through is the result of the expanded child tax credit expiring at the end of December. Seriously, you can't make this up! 

But that doesn't explain the surge of murders and other violent crimes that occurred in 2021, when the full tax credit was in effect.

The crime AOC tries to explain away in her own congressional district and in the city of New York almost always victimizes minorities -- blacks, Asians, Hispanics, the elderly, the powerless and the vulnerable. 

For most of our history, it wasn't hard for "compassionate" liberals and civil rights leaders to choose between minority thugs and minority victims. But that's not today's woke left, which is all in on critical race theory and the "systemic racism of law enforcement." Now the cops are the bad guys and the criminals are the victims!

The truth is that the left's "soft on crime" philosophy is costing New York's minority communities job opportunities. What business owners would want to invest in unsafe neighborhoods? 

Her crazy ideas are resulting in minority students getting a bad education because the schools and streets are unsafe. Her crazy ideas are resulting in more violent crime because thugs are released with no bail, while the cops are handcuffed, demoralized and defunded.

How is that "compassionate"? 

But AOC is worried about "Jim Crow laws."  Give me a break!