The Revolution Will Be Sanitized, If AOC’s Attempt To Dismiss ‘Woke One’ Is Any Guide

Hey, remember that unhinged cultural revolution we launched a few years back? That was insane — amirite?That’s essentially what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News host Jonathan Karl recently, quoting a New York City council member who described socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past tweets about defunding the police and shuttering prisons.“Woke One was crazyyyy,” she said with a laugh.The revolution will be sanitized. Yet as I remember it, “Woke One” was a high-tech progressive jihad that relied on intimidation, public shaming, and economic ruin to dictate what words and ideas were permissible in the public square.Words had long been tantamount to “violence” on the socialist left. Now, silence was also violence. Woke One is when my local lawn care company was sending out emails promising to dedicate themselves to Black Lives Matter, lest some deranged 22-year-old with rainbow hair accuse them of harboring counterrevolutionary sympathies and drag them into a struggle session.Every thinking person changes their views as they learn and grow. Elected officials and others involved in public discourse, though, surely have some duty to explain why. What was your intellectual evolution on wokeism? Even more pertinently, what was Woke One?And what was Woke One?Only days after Democrats took a beating in the 2024 election, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez removed “she/her” pronouns from her social media accounts, which doesn’t exactly scream of authenticity. So, is using your “preferred pronouns” crazy? Is adopting pronouns that don’t match your “gender assigned at birth” crazy? Is using nonbinary pronouns crazy? Is performing “gender-affirming care,” needless life-altering surgery on confused children that destroys their development, crazy? Is it crazy to let biological males play in girls’ sports? What part was crazy?Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was a gung-ho supporter of virtually every ideological element of the past 10 years. “Woke,” she once argued, was nothing more than a term pundits used as a “derogatory euphemism” for “civil rights” and progressive notions of “justice.”Does Ms. Ocasio-Cortez now oppose DEI initiatives and racial quotas? Does she support Black Lives Matter, a movement that sparked the most expensive and prolonged domestic destruction in American history, including looting, rioting, arson, and homicide? BLM is an objectively racist movement that judges people on color rather than achievement. Is that crazy?Does Ms. Ocasio-Cortez believe that reparations, which she’s supported, are crazy? What about land acknowledgments? Crazy?Let’s not forget, Ocasio-Cortez hatched a “social justice” environmental policy that not only called for the elimination of all fossil fuel energy production by 2029 but also for replacing every “combustion-engine vehicle” — trucks, airplanes, boats and 99 percent of cars — in America. Her Green New Deal would have compelled us to “retrofit every building in America” and build “high-speed rail at a scale” that would eliminate all air travel.The plan offered government-guaranteed “family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and a pension,” “safe, affordable, adequate housing,” and “economic security” for all who are “unable or unwilling” to work.I’m not sure if that’s Woke One — but it’s definitely crazy.If Ms. Ocasio-Cortez abandons the ideas she championed to deal with an alleged crisis that could destroy the Earth in 10 years, now three years and counting, what does that say about her ability to evaluate crises and offer practical solutions moving forward? If Woke One was crazy because of its approach, but not its content, then we are back where we started.More than any of that, referring to a “Woke One” strongly insinuates that a Woke Two or Woke Three exists and that it is a more reasonable iteration of this ideology. Yet it’s probably worse.Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was the first elected official, along with Representative Ilhan Omar, to appear on Hasan Piker’s live stream. Is Woke Two normalizing terrorist-loving, Mao Zedong-adulating streamers?Her first appearance on Ms. Piker’s show happened during peak Woke One, October 20, 2020. She appeared another three times to chat it up with a guy who had already argued that her New York constituents deserved 9/11. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez supports the same candidates as Mr. Piker.The New York congresswoman is still a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which advocates nationalizing private corporations, the energy and transportation sectors, and all natural resources.Woke Two? The DSA wants a new constitution that eliminates the presidency, the Supreme Court and the Senate. It supports universal suffrage for noncitizens and felons.Is that crazy? And what kind of crazy awaits us when Woke Two gets its hands on state power? Someone should ask Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.Creators.com

The Revolution Will Be Sanitized, If AOC’s Attempt To Dismiss ‘Woke One’ Is Any Guide

The Revolution Will Be Sanitized, If AOC’s Attempt To Dismiss ‘Woke One’ Is Any Guide

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