Ocasio Quotes

We must lean on others to strive on our own

Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, often times, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table.

I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

People who are actually "cancelled" don't get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets... . The term "cancel culture" comes from entitlement—as though the person complaining has the right to a large, captive audience, & one is a victim if people choose to tune them out. Odds are you're not actually cancelled, you're just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked. ― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Oftentimes, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table.

But I also instantly recognized this response as my conditioning from grad school, where these things were trained out of me, where I was reprogrammed in a way that actually took away my power while purporting to give me access to power--power that, through my voice, I'd already had.

Wealthy celebrities in particular are all too eager to jump onto the proverbial bandwagon of oppression, and lecture us about the evils within our country. In Vogue magazine, Taylor Swift said, “Rights are being stripped from basically everyone who isn’t a straight white cisgender male.” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, elected to Congress at twenty-nine years old, famously said that her generation “never saw American prosperity.” Such overstatements, totally devoid of evidence, only make sense in the context of a culture that has become accustomed to seeking victimhood over self-empowerment

From Trotsky, to Lenin, to Mao, to Castro—to socialist Bernie Sanders and Comrade Ocasio-Cortez—a common tool for manipulating paideia is to use words that people associate with positive virtues, but to change their meaning.

They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway.

When freshman Democrat congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib endorsed Bernie Sanders, they were chastised in both traditional and social media for throwing their support behind “an old white guy” rather than a woman. How is it that so many white feminists still cannot grasp the many factors that shape the politics of women from such diverse backgrounds?

No more Boston! This comes on the heels of Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that Miami’s days are numbered: apparently that city is projected to be underwater in “a few years.” And Astra Taylor warns that the flooding of coastal cities and even inland towns and farms may force people to “escape to New Zealand, to the moon, or to Mars.”12 But here’s an anomaly. The Obamas recently acquired property in Martha’s Vineyard for nearly $12 million.13 Very interesting! The property, purchased from the owner of the Boston Celtics, doesn’t merely have ocean views; it sits right on the Atlantic Ocean. The Obamas know about the literature on disappearing coastlines. Obama himself has repeatedly warned of rising sea levels engulfing coastal properties. And presumably everyone who lives on the coasts has access to this literature and has heard these dire warnings.

If Republicans were willing to scrutinize billionaires *half* as much as they scrutinize people on food stamps, this country would be a much better place. (12/7/2019 on Twitter)

But public opinion surveys show overwhelming support for raising taxes on the rich. One recent poll even found that 45 percent of self-identified Republicans support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion of a top rate of 70 percent.

Si hubiera que elegir una frase de alguien que consiguió capturar la esencia de ese Zeitgeist, sería la joven demócrata de origen latino Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez —la nueva sensación de la política estadounidense—. En una entrevista con Anderson Cooper de la CNN en la que él le reprochara los innumerables errores de hecho que cometía en sus propuestas y declaraciones, Ocasio-Cortez simplemente contestó: «Creo que hay mucha gente preocupada más de ser precisos con los hechos y la semántica que de proponer lo que es moralmente correcto».

Be A Tesla (The Sonnet) In a world full of Elon Musks, Be a Dan Price. Use entrepreneurship to instill equity, Not as a vessel of disparity's vice. In a world full of Jordan Petersons, Be a Jiddu Krishnamurti. Use intellect to expand perception, Not to turn back the clock of primitivity. In a world full of Donald Trumps, Be a Dolly Parton, be an Ocasio-Cortez. Use fame and politics to alleviate anguish, Not to feed on people's distress. Let others adore the crook Edison all they wanna. You for one be a Marie Curie, be a Nikola Tesla.

People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists. (7/11/2020 on Twitter)

Aggressive, overreaching wealth redistribution *does* happen in the United States, it just happens in the opposite direction conservatives scream about: our system takes money away from everyday people and siphons it towards the profanely wealthy. (9/16/2020 on Twitter)

I hope people realize that the same Republicans who are refusing to acknowledge the results of our elections also champion disastrous foreign policy claiming they're "bringing democracy" to other nations. (11/10/2020)

El cirujano y el misionero En cierta ocasión escuché el relato de un pastor-misionero que, luego de muchos años de labor, volvía a su país de origen para su merecido retiro. Sería una etapa de transición difícil pero necesaria. Su familia lo esperaba con ansias y él añoraba verlos. En el mismo viaje por avión, también regresaba un renombrado cirujano de la zona. Al llegar a su destino, a la salida de los pasajeros, había todo un comité de bienvenida formado por familiares y amigos, que con vítores y aplausos recibían y abrazaban al cirujano, que tantas vidas había librado de enfermedades. Pero, nadie había llegado para recibir al pastor-misionero. Debido a una información incorrecta de la llegada de su vuelo, su familia y sus amigos se habían retrasado en su llegada al aeropuerto. Mientras él los esperaba, sutilmente, una raíz de sentimiento de tristeza comenzó a infiltrarse en su corazón. (¡Cuidado con las raíces!). Comenzó mentalmente a calcular y repasar todo el inmenso y tedioso trabajo de tantos años llevado a cabo en un país extranjero. Las privaciones de comodidades y buenas comidas, los momentos de gran peligro, las épocas de enfermedad, el bien hecho a cientos de almas discipuladas y bautizadas, los templos construidos, etc. Todo lo veía como una película desplegada vertiginosamente. Lágrimas calientes de amargura y resentimiento se asomaron a sus ojos. “Yo también soy digno de una bienvenida así, porque más que ayudar a personas enfermas, yo ayudé a ganar almas”, pensaba con coraje. Mientras observaba la algarabía que rodeaba al famoso cirujano, de momento le invadió un sentido de soledad. Alejándose cabizbajo y compungido en su espíritu, tomó un taxi, tirándose hacia atrás en el asiento posterior, sumido en su autocompa- sión. Llegó sin ánimo a un cuarto de hotel, a donde esperaría a sus familiares. Luego de soltar su equipaje, se lanzó de rodillas en profundo llanto y oración al lado de la cama, tratando de controlar sus emociones. De pronto… ¡él cuarto se llenó de una fuerte y brillante luz! ¡Él percibió que la presencia del Señor llenaba la atmósfera! Al momento, sintió cómo dos manos cálidas y firmes se posaron gentilmente sobre sus hombros, infundiéndole nuevas fuerzas instantaneamente. A la misma vez, oyó la voz única del Príncipe de los Pastores, diciéndole: “¡Mi siervo querido y fiel, todavía no es tu bienvenida, te estoy preparando una gran fiesta!”. El pastor-misionero, aún bañado en lágrimas pero esta vez de consolación y alegría, alzaba sus manos al cielo, arrepentido de sus resentimientos y celos, maravillado de que el Señor del universo hubiese descendido a visitarle personalmente. Distinguidos pastores y ministros en la labranza del Maestro, cuando la amargura, el resentimiento o el celo quieran asomar su nefasta “cabeza” en nuestros corazones, recordemos que nuestra recompensa aún se está preparando y algún día escucharemos su voz única dicién- donos: “¡Hiciste bien, siervo bueno y fiel! En lo poco has sido fiel; te pondré a cargo de mucho más. ¡Ven a compartir la felicidad de tu señor!” (Mateo 25:21). ¡

I learned that hope is not something that you have. Hope is something that you create, with your actions. Hope is something you have to manifest into the world, and once one person has hope, it can be contagious. Other people start acting in a way that has more hope.

Our preoccupation cannot be with how to make Ocasio-Cortez president but with how we fill the halls of power with all the Ocasio-Cortezes waiting in the wings.

I need my colleagues to understand that...their base is not the enemy (11/2020 in New York Times)

It was an era when President Harry Truman, then regarded as a moderate Democrat, could put forward an economic “Fair Deal” advocating a widened social safety net that resembles the platform of representatives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is today maligned as a dangerous radical. It was an era when President Dwight Eisenhower could rail against the military-industrial complex and say things like “This world in arms is not spending money alone; it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children” and be thought of as a patriotic, sensible member of the Republican Party.

Yet the country’s leading Democrat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told a CNN town hall audience, “We’re capitalists, and that’s just the way it is.” On another occasion, Pelosi added, “I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party.”6 Pelosi has taken steps to distance the House Democrats from the “squad”—the socialist wing identified with Omar, Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez. She calls it a small faction with a big media presence.

Then there are the future leaders of the Socialist, I mean, Democrat, Party. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, or “the Squad,” as they’re commonly known, stand somewhere left of Chairman Mao. Their radical beliefs have real-world consequences.

Out of disorder and discontent come leaders who have strong personalities, are anti-elitist, and claim to fight for the common man. They are called populists. Populism is a political and social phenomenon that appeals to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are not being addressed by the elites. It typically develops when there are wealth and opportunity gaps, perceived cultural threats from those with different values both inside and outside the country, and “establishment elites” in positions of power who are not working effectively for most people. Populists come into power when these conditions create anger among ordinary people who want those with political power to be fighters for them. Populists can be of the right or of the left, are much more extreme than moderates, and tend to appeal to the emotions of ordinary people. They are typically confrontational rather than collaborative and exclusive rather than inclusive. This leads to a lot of fighting between populists of the left and populists of the right over irreconcilable differences. The extremity of the revolution that occurs under them varies. For example, in the 1930s, populism of the left took the form of communism and that of the right took the form of fascism while nonviolent revolutionary changes took place in the US and the UK. More recently, in the United States, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 was a move to populism of the right while the popularity of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reflects the popularity of populism of the left. There are increased political movements toward populism in a number of countries. It could be said that the election of Joe Biden reflects a desire for less extremism and more moderation, though time will tell. Watch populism and polarization as markers. The more that populism and polarization exist, the further along a nation is in Stage 5, and the closer it is to civil war and revolution. In Stage 5, moderates become the minority. In Stage 6, they cease to exist.

According to the Hill article, those heading up the Great Reset must follow the policies of “American Socialists” such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and initiate the multi-trillion-dollar New Green Deal. It was the economic shutdowns during the virus that served as the motivation for this new order. The main purpose behind this radical agenda is to save the planet due to Climate Change.

Schumer was too anxious to revel in his first victory. He needed to see Nancy Pelosi, to let her know about his deal with Manchin. A year earlier, Pelosi felt blindsided by Schumer when he failed to tell her about how he signed a surreptitious agreement with the West Virginia senator. Now, he was ready to spring a much happier surprise on her, although he wasn’t sure how she would respond to Manchin’s demands, which he worried might irk Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her comrades on the Left. But Schumer couldn’t relay his revelation to Pelosi, because he couldn’t reach her. She was in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol, receiving a briefing on Ukraine, without access to a cell phone. When she finally emerged, Schumer trekked to her office. It came as an enormous relief that she didn’t think twice about agreeing to Schumer’s side deals with Manchin. Schumer asked her to call the West Virginia senator to relay her assent.

Knock Down the House,

The sun was warm and bright. Benjamin laid back in the grass and smiled at the sun. The sun smiled back at him. Dad laid back in the grass too. Everything was very quiet, until Dad started snoring.

On January 21, 2019, media darling and socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said, “The world is gonna end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” To understand this, it’s necessary to remember that the UN has a goal to establish a world government by 2030. In essence,

In America, as Democrat leaders continue to brainwash people with their socialist rhetoric, they rely on distressed minorities—particularly blacks—to support this narrative. And there is no one guiltier of this manipulation than Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – often described as the “new face” of the Democratic party – who smugly declared, “It is more important to be ‘morally right’” than to be factually correct while Joe Biden, one of the oldest faces in the Democratic party, moralized in his campaign stump speech that, “We [Democrats] prefer truth over facts.

It wasn’t a “white person” who ordered the internment of Japanese-Americans based on nothing other than the color of their skin and the blood in their veins. That was the longest-serving, most powerful and best-loved Democrat of all, Franklin Roosevelt and it should not go unnoticed that it is this same Roosevelt who remains so beloved a figure in today’s Democratic party that, when Ocasio-Cortez sought to sell her massive one-size-fits-all “environmental” programs to her fellow Democrats, she did so by naming her bill after the Socialist/collectivist/ racist Roosevelt’s signature policies, “The New Deal.” That’s not a “dog whistle,” that’s a bullhorn.

when President Harry Truman, then regarded as a moderate Democrat, could put forward an economic “Fair Deal” advocating a widened social safety net that resembles the platform of representatives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is today maligned as a dangerous radical.

Ocasio-Cortez calls herself a democratic socialist. What she seems to mean by the name is that we have in common the things we choose to share together, and these common things—good schools, good transport, public parks, good housing, and medical care for everyone—make a shared world. We should make them everyone’s. The name is also a way of claiming a long tradition of politics that asks not whether the world is good enough or getting better, but instead what is the gap between the world we have now and the better world that is within our power to make. It is a tradition that recognizes that economies do not just produce wealth: they produce human lives and relationships, which can be dignified or humiliating, mutual or exploitative, solidaristic or fragmenting, more frightening or safer. And economies, in turn, do not arise naturally, whether from the self-interest of “rational man” or from the disruptive imagination of entrepreneurs and the benignity of philanthropists. Political decisions give economies their shape, from labor laws and tax rates and public investments to questions of almost metaphysical significance. The journalist Kate Aronoff has observed that climate politics addresses the question of who will survive the twenty-first century. Environmental politics, like the politics of work and health care, answers in very concrete terms the ultimate question: What is the value of life? And whose life, which lives, will be valued? As I write, a hopeful, even heroic response to these questions is gathering under the heading of the Green New Deal. Maybe it will find another banner soon, or maybe it will succeed in transforming the meaning of the New Deal from the industrial, racially exclusionary, male-centered program of solidarity that it was to a truly universal reworking of its potential into a commonwealth of shared dignity and mutual care.