Dana Mathewson

One hopes -- and expects -- that the Left's shiny new toy will tarnish and lose its luster soon enough. She's already stuck her foot in the mud a few times, the most recent by refusing to debate Ben Shapiro, obviously realizing that he would mop the floor with her.

Unfortunately, her ideas are popular with millennials, who do not know any better. Fox News presents an excellent article by Hannah Scherlacher detailing the threats and the reason for them.

Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – the New York congressional candidate many in the media have fallen in love with – was handed rejection when many of the candidates she endorsed lost in Tuesday’s elections. But her radical and totally impractical ideas continue to pose a threat.

The 28-year-old candidate advocates for guaranteed federal jobs, free college for all, Medicare for all, and the abolishment of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. She’d like to turn Uncle Sam into Santa Claus, handing out freebies 365 days a year – all paid for by crushing taxes on all of us, a skyrocketing national debt or … hey, whatever.

The surprising primary victory that turned this grossly unqualified and woefully uninformed young woman into a candidate likely to be elected to Congress in a heavily Democratic district shows that the real battleground this election cycle is in the classroom.

If we continue to laugh off Ocasio-Cortez as an ignorant and delusional radical, we will be blindsided by the soon-to-be largest voting bloc in America – a generation of indoctrinated millennials.

As a fellow millennial, I know firsthand that Ocasio-Cortez’s college experience probably taught her that being a socialist absolves her of knowing much at all. All she needs to know is that anyone who opposes her is evil. And she needs to memorize a few bumper sticker slogans about the cruel and greedy 1 percent who aren't "paying their fair share.”

Ocasio-Cortez is among the majority of millennials who now say they would prefer to live in a socialist or communist country over a capitalist one. That’s a troubling revelation to older generations. But can young people be blamed for having no memory of the widespread failures of socialism and communism if we never learned about them?

Each year, more and more schools are doing away with basic economics and history courses andreplacing them with anti-American, progressive propaganda.

A survey by U.S. News & World Report found that 53 out of the 76 "best” colleges and universities in America no longer require history majors to take a single course on U.S. history.

Meanwhile, the Communist Manifesto is among the three most frequently assigned readings at American universities and Karl Marx is the most studied economist. Never mind that his economic ideas make about as much sense as the economic theories of Groucho Marx.

And Groucho knew better.

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Crazy as it sounds, some people are even talking about Ocasio-Cortez running for president someday. Will America put her in the White House with the slogan "Make America Socialist?”

If the majority of millennials truly embrace socialism, candidates like Ocasio-Cortez are only one successful voter registration drive away from getting elected to our highest offices.

And if that happens, we and future generations will get to experience the nightmare of economic failure and lack of freedom that the citizens of Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, the Soviet Union, East Germany and other socialist and communist states have suffered through.

The entire story is here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/10/ocasio-cortezs-vision-to-turn-uncle-sam-into-santa-claus-is-impractical-but-poses-threat-cant-ignore.html

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