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Silly AOC: The 'Right' to a Home Comes Before 'Privilege To Make a Profit'

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The left always chooses rhetoric over substance. Always.

Rather than talk about when life begins, the left calls pro-life activists “sexists.”

Rather than talk about the sustainability of the number of illegal migrants, they call immigration reformers “racists.”

Rather than talk a wise tax plan, they call fiscal conservatives, “greedy bigots.”

The left’s utter bankruptcy of ideas leaves liberals with little else but misdirection and name-calling.

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But at least they make it sound so, so sweet.

For instance, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at a recent town hall in the Bronx, told her audience that housing should be legislated as a human right, according to the radically progressive Mother Jones.

Like a pied piper leading mushy brains to their demise, AOC pulls her liberal flute to her lips and plays a familiar tune.

It’s a melody that sounds good in the beginning, but in the end is foolishness.

The tune has two parts. The first movement of AOC’s concerto — I call it “Sweet Sounding Stupidness” — proposes a course of action that sounds attractive to those with no sense of how free markets work, no understanding that all of the government’s money is the taxpayers’ money, no realization that history has proven these ideas to be an unworkable mirage.

But the danger of the first movement is that it often avoids analysis in the marketplace of ideas because of the terror of the second movement. The second movement — I call this one “The Straw Man Cometh” — sends otherwise courageous opponents into their bunkers.

Though harder to oppose, the melody for this part is easy to identify.

It looks like this:

Oh, so you hate women?

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Oh, so you don’t like children to learn?

Oh, so you don’t want women to have good health care?

Oh, so you don’t like people that don’t look like you?

Oh, so you like children to live in poverty?

Oh, so you think people of color only commit the crimes?

Oh, so you support greedy cronyism?

Ugh. You get the point. Not a policy argument in sight. Leftists always choose bombshell buzzwords and identity politics over a discussion of substance. Always.

And as she played her flute, AOC’s tune struck that familiar note.

You can hear the second movement now.

Oh, so you hate homeless people? Oh, so you should live in your house and not care about people less fortunate than yourself?

Oh, so you should embrace greed and never apologize for your roof privilege?

Do you think Ocasio-Cortez is a kingmaker in the Democratic Party today?

It is time that we stop scattering. It is time that we stand up and say that we can be compassionate and against entitlements.

We can be Christian and generously care for the needy. In fact, we must. We just realize it must come from our own pockets as a result of a heart change and not yanked from our bank accounts by threat of force.

It isn’t that AOC lacks compassion. It is that she lacks sense on how to execute on a truly compassionate plan. So we should educate ourselves to make sure we are courageously ready for that conversation.

Don’t shy away. Speak up. We must expose the darkness with the light. Much is at stake. Many are listening to her flute and following her down a treacherous path.

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G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal.
G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal and vice president of digital content of Liftable Media.

After graduating law school from the Cecil C. Humphries School of Law, Mr. Hair spent a decade as an attorney practicing at the trial and appellate level in Arkansas and Tennessee. He represented clients in civil litigation, contractual disputes, criminal defense and domestic matters. He spent a significant amount of time representing indigent clients who could not afford private counsel in civil or criminal matters. A desire for justice and fairness was a driving force in Mr. Hair's philosophy of representation. Inspired by Christ’s role as an advocate on our behalf before God, he often represented clients who had no one else to fight on their behalf.

Mr. Hair has been a consultant for Republican political candidates and has crafted grassroots campaign strategies to help mobilize voters in staunchly Democrat regions of the Eastern United States.

In early 2015, he began writing for Conservative Tribune. After the site was acquired by Liftable Media, he shut down his law practice, moved to Arizona and transitioned into the position of site director. He then transitioned to vice president of content. In 2018, after Liftable Media folded all its brands into The Western Journal, he was named executive editor. His mission is to advance conservative principles and be a positive and truthful voice in the media.

He is married and has four children. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
Birthplace
South Carolina
Education
Homeschooled (and proud of it); B.A. Mississippi College; J.D. University Of Memphis
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
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English
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Culture, Faith, Politics




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