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"Extremism In the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice. And Moderation In the Pursuit of Justice Is No Virtue."

And now we have the mirror image of Barry Goldwater.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters.

“Moderate is not a stance. It's just an attitude towards life of, like, ‘meh,’” the New York Democrat said Saturday during an interview with Briahna Gray, senior politics editor for the Intercept. “We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude, and we view ambition as youthful naivete when ... the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious acts of visions, and the ‘meh’ is just worshipped now, for what?”

Oh and about FDR's New Deal?

She called that "racist."
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
She is right because 'moderate' is not a position. What does it even mean? In America, it means supporting a private healthcare system, a massive military and no safety net. Well, moderates can be against those things in theory but not in a way that 'rocks the boat'.
SW-User
She scares me.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Who is putting all the money up to support this?

 
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