The 116th Congress will take office on January 3rd. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest and one of the most intriguing members of the new congress. The Bronx native has captured the imagination of millions of young people with her audacity, charm, and transparency. Through social media, she is literally taking 75 million millennials on this unlikely journey with her. Her popularity has right-wing pundits like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson taking potshots at her almost daily, and even members of her own party quietly call her everything from naïve to dangerous. Whether she can end up being an effective legislator is still uncertain, but I like her a lot. Sure, her passion is infectious, but it’s her positivity that I love the most. Everything she is about is good, and for the genuine benefit of others. While I hope Ocasio-Cortez learns to pick her battles, I also hope she never loses the idealism that makes her so unique. Authentic, Latinx, young, and female — both Democrats and Republicans better take notice that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the future of American politics.
Never in U.S. history have we had two older or less popular candidates running for president of the United States than we do today. We repeatedly hear the question, “How can these two candidates be the best our country has to offer?”.
if you are primarily fearful of living in a society that is racist and discriminatory, you should be very concerned with what is happening with the political far left. If your primary fear is moving our society towards socialism and communism, then you should be mostly fearful of the political far right. That statement may seem counterintuitive, but it is absolutely true.
People on the political right believe that people on the extreme left are the biggest problems in our nation. People on the political left think that people on the extreme right pose the biggest threat. This is one occasion when both sides are correct.