Peter DAbrosca - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Her Mysterious Rise from Bartender to Congresswoman: An Unauthorized Biography

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Her Mysterious Rise from Bartender to Congresswoman:

An Unauthorized Biography

2019 by Peter DAbrosca

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Introduction

S ince her upset victory over veteran Democrat Joe Crowley, a staple in the halls of U.S. Congress for twenty years, a freshman congresswoman from New Yorks Fourteenth District has captivated America. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents the radical political Lefts American dream, and the political Rights American nightmare.

Her cult-like millennial followers are enamored with her. The Yaaas queen crowd, whose worldview has been shaped through Instagram filters and Snapchat stories, and who have spent more time keeping up with the Kardashians than keeping up with American politics, reads her loudly and clearly: you too can be a know-nothing millennial idiot pouring seven-and-sevens at your local dive bar, and, with the mastery of precisely nothing other than Twitter clap backs, can achieve fame and influence overnight. The political Lefts American dream is the life of AOC: do nothing and become successful.

Her political opponents are still bewildered. Given AOCs tenuous relationship with reality, Republicans simply cannot understand the appeal. How can this woman, just old enough to rent a car, who likely has not read a book since undergradand even then, probably only skimmed the textinstantly become the most attention-worthy member of Congress? After all, she hasnt accomplished anything professionally. Any speech or interview that she has given proves that shes not exactly a scholar. She never founded a business that produced a viable product, created a single job, balanced a checkbook, or managed anything other than a social media account. To Republicans, the American dream means the opposite. It means working hard, accomplishing goals, and earning success.

But when you think about AOC through the lens of a twenty-two-year-old Starbucks barista with a degree in pansexual art theory who is chipping away at $234,591 in student loan debt one minimum-wage shift at a time, Cortez begins to make sense. The millennials to whom AOC appeals just know that they are owed by some societal structure that has held them down. The leftist system of academia of which AOC is product has raised an entire generation of nitwit social justice warriors who perceive themselves as victims of a rigged system, believe that certain skin tones, genitalia, and sexual orientations are rsum boosters, and view America as a fundamentally evil place where a white male patriarchy is still large and in charge, scheming at some non-existent monthly meeting about how it can oppress women and minorities whilst drinking scotch and chortling.