References: AOC pushes for more government funding to deprogram white supremacists (msn.com)
We’re beginning to think that New York Representative and professional loudmouth-without-thinking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really is just stupid as well as ignorant. She certainly isn’t any kind of a deep thinker. The things she says sometimes are obviously shooting-from-the-hip without any thought to the consequences or those of us who don’t share her “progressive” socialist views, or the wider world around her, or of the lessons that history can teach us about the downsides of what she now proposes. Actually sounds a lot like the current President, doesn’t it? Just on the other side of the political spectrum.
Her latest gaffe (at least we hope it is – let’s call it a “trial balloon” and hope it goes nowhere) is, get this, pushing for more government funding to “deprogram white supremacists.” That’s right, just as in Communist China and a long list of other fascist states (whatever the technical form of government) over the centuries, anyone who doesn’t agree with her – virtually by definition a “white supremacist” – needs to be sent off to be reeducated and deprogrammed and “deradicalized,” probably never to be heard from again. Between just Russia, China and Nazi Germany, and just in the 20th century alone, well over a hundred million people have died for the sin of disagreeing with or not being acceptable to, the government, often by being sent away for such “reeducation” and brainwashing and for conformity with state policy.
This is from the Wasington Examiner:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling on the government to direct funds toward the deprogramming of white supremacy.
“The white supremacist cause is futile. It’s nihilist,” the New York Democrat said during a town hall event on Friday. “There are people who are radicalized right now. It’s going to take a very long time to deradicalize these people and a lot of effort.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that “healing is possible” and that “we need to double, triple, or quadruple the funding” into programs that “deradicalize” brainwashed white supremacists.
Well, it’s a matter of opinion who is and who isn’t “radicalized.” A lot of people would say she and her buddies are “radicalized.” What about the self-professed radical Antifa? What about the BLM zealots who want to eliminate the nuclear family and are “committed Marxists”? What about the so-called “activists” who think it’s OK to take over minority neighborhoods in the name of “social justice” and make life miserable for everyone in it, and loot and destroy minority businesses while they’re at it? (that’s called “reparations,” by the way – really). Who’s going to make that call? Who’s going to decide? Her? Hasn’t she ever read a book? How did she get through four years of college at a good school and learn nothing except leftist claptrap? (Well, that’s actually a stupid question these days). Didn’t she ever learn anything about what always happens when the government starts mandating thought?
Let’s hope she takes some time to reflect on the consequences of the positions she takes and uses that time to educate herself about the history of such ideas and where they end up. Or let’s just give everyone soma and be done with it. (Though with the current problems organizing vaccine delivery, we probably can’t even trust the government to distribute soma properly either.) Let’s just hope that if she does read a book, it isn’t 1984 or Brave New World! Then we’re all screwed. Either one of those would be a recipe book for her, just like in the Twilight Zone episode with benevolent-appearing aliens who send lots of humans back to their home world for a visit because of the teachings of a book they have called “To Serve Man,” which too late is discovered to be a cookbook.