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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an idiot. 

The only reason the media and Democrats keep pushing her in our faces is because she’s passionate about the nonsense she believes. They think she connects with millennials. 

But if you listen to her for more than a minute it’s apparent she doesn’t understand what she’s talking about. No matter what the subject is. No matter how she presents it. 

There’s not a spec of logic or fact behind anything she says. Everything she proposes is obviously completely unworkable. Not because there are entrenched evil forces in the way, but simply because she has no grasp of the Constitution, or how government works.  More laughable is that she doesn’t understand geography, much less basic physics.  

I’m not talking about high-level stuff.  Second graders have more knowledge than her; they at least understand there’s no way to take a train from the US to Hawaii. Maybe in a fairy tale with magic trains and flying carpets, but not in real life.  

The only thing she’s got going for her is her passion. That’s what appeals to millennials – she really believes what she’s saying, fervently. 

That doesn’t make anything she’s saying true.  That doesn’t seem to matter.  The scary part is so many people are willing to accept what she’s saying as possible.  None of it’s even remotely possible no matter how much she wants it to be.    

For the life of me, I don’t understand.  It frightens the hell out of me that anyone with the good sense God gave a sweet potato can listen to this loon prattle on without laughing out loud. It’s not just that she has no idea what she’s talking about, but politicians are lining up to exalt her like she’s the second coming.

She’s not “speaking truth to power”; she’s doing standup comedy. She just doesn’t know it. And Democrats and the media are afraid – for whatever reason – to call her out.  Republicans, as always, are also afraid to take her on, too. 

Why is no one willing to state the obvious – the emperor has no clothes. 

More importantly, she has no brain.  Or any common sense.   

I suspect she’s simply ignorant. She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know.  And she doesn’t care to find out what she should know.  That doesn’t matter to her.  Nor to her like-minded dimwits elected in the midterms.  Nor to politicians who should know better. 

Why else would someone say when questioned how to pay for multitrillion dollar Medicare for all: “you just pay for it.” How could someone with a smidgen of common sense think we should eliminate cows because they fart, or eliminate air travel?  This is crazy stuff. 

The media fact-check and parse every word by Trump, why aren’t they fact-checking this buffoon? Why aren’t they ridiculing her every day? God knows she’s given them a plenty of material to work with. She's a living, breathing SNL skit.   

When anyone dares to call her out on something completely unrealistic she’s proposing she says that it’s more important to have goals and ideals than the means to achieve them.

Lately she’s been pointing to FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society as examples of lofty goals that changed America.  Unfortunately, she knows almost nothing about those – except what she’s been told by liberal historians – so she doesn’t know that both of those were largely failures.

Except for Social Security, the one lasting bright spot, FDR’s policies were generally a mess.  These prolonged the Great Depression and vastly enlarged the scope and cost of government. His policies were also overturned by the Supreme Court at times leading liberal god FDR to try to pack the Court to get decisions he liked, much like today’s authoritarian dictators.

FDR’s dictatorial streak was one reason Congress later enacted Presidential terms limits.   

LBJ’s Great Society was devastating, especially to minorities.  It produced a welfare state that destroyed the basic family unit, encouraged out-of-wedlock births, and removed incentives to work. It helped create a permanent underclass in America almost wholly dependent on government payments.  We’re still trying to recover from ill-conceived Great Society programs.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that she also pointed to America’s space program as a good example.  However, I suspect she’d be opposed to spending anything on a space program, unless it was solar powered and could be used to launch farting cows off the planet.      

She’s the perfect metaphor for today’s culture.  Feelings matter more than facts. 

Celebrities with barely a high-school education preach about the science of climate change and the need to prohibit straws to save sea turtles.  Ultra-rich Hollywood types take private jets to attend global warming meetings.  Some do videos about the link between vaccinations and autism – even though there’s absolutely no proof.  Idiocy is clearly in the ascendency. 

Her appeal to millennials and the far left is predictable.  

They’ve never been fans of facts; they prefer to rely on their feelings. They feel people shouldn’t have to pay for college or pay back loans.  They believe everyone should get a living wage whether they work or choose not to.  They feel there’s an unlimited amount of money government can spend however they like; if they start running out, it’s okay to just print more.

It has all the earmarks of a new religion, based on faith a and feelings. Government is God, and through government all good things flow. 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the new high priestess of this religion.  She advocates a better life for everyone here on Earth if you just believe.  In that way she reminds me of the Reverend Ike, who said if you wanted a Cadillac, just pray for it and God would deliver. 

I’m not buying it. Especially from a know-nothing bozo like her, whose only accomplishment in life so far is defeating an incumbent Democrat who didn’t even bother to campaign.  But to listen to her and her followers, that was a watershed event in American history.

As if she actually knew any American history, which, obviously, she doesn’t.

Every time she opens her mouth to pontificate on something, she demonstrates how little she knows. The media and politicians shouldn’t take her seriously, any more than they should some homeless person wearing a tinfoil hat screaming at the sky about cosmic rays.       

I can’t believe she gets away with this nonsense.