Dana Mathewson

I believe this is a wonderful example of "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail." The left's shiny new object is beginning to lose her shine, big-time -- at least in the eyes of older, wiser people. Which means just about everybody.

Fox News once again provides the laugh of the day.

Left-wing Democrats have long said that implementing Democratic socialism is easier than conservatives claim. But according to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it’s a walk in the park.

The overnight Democratic superstar, who rose out of obscurity after beating Rep. Joe Crowley, D-NY, in June’s primary, has been widely mocked for a number of gaffes and misstatements she has made on a subsequent media and campaign tour.

That mockery looked set to continue this week after she took a leisurely stroll through Maine’s Acadia National Park, and declared it -- along with other benign Sunday stops -- an example of democratic socialism.

She cited not only her visit to the park, but also eating a breakfast sandwich at a cafe co-op, and "supporting worker-owned businesses.” She also added as a "bonus” that she spotted a Planned Parenthood branch "helping people, per usual.”

She posted a number of accompanying pictures -- including her relaxing under a bridge, and another of her smiling outside the aforementioned Planned Parenthood center.

But while worker-owned businesses may have a ring of "Workers of the World, Unite!” to them, Ocasio-Cortez took heat for what critics described as the common mistake of equating some things government-run to socialism.

"The National Park System is not socialism in action: It is a mix of public goods, like monuments, and government maintenance of park land, which is not an interruption of private economic activity or a usurpation of private property rights,” The Weekly Standard’s Chris Deaton wrote in a column.

Certainly worth your time to read it, and it isn't long. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/21/ocasio-cortez-raises-eyebrows-after-citing-national-park-as-example-democratic-socialism.html

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