Radical Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a recent interview that she won’t be president – not now, not ever.
And it’s not because the self-proclaimed democratic socialist has loony, Marxist ideas about running the economy and the government.
Nor is it because the New York Democrat is deeply narcissistic to believe all of her critics secretly want to date her, or that she’s hypocritical enough to vacation in Florida while claiming Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to kill people by relaxing pandemic regulations.
And it’s not because she’s routinely dishonest, simply concocting narratives about weeping at facilities holding illegal immigrant children, her grandmother’s destroyed home in Puerto Rico, being handcuffed at a pro-abortion rally, or wanting “to deck” a heckler who called her “my favorite big booty Latina” when video showed she went along with the gag.
Rather, it’s because she’s a woman.
AOC made the claim in an interview with GQ that was published Wednesday.
Curiously, the misogyny that holds her down – except from the pages of GQ, every major social media platform, and all liberal media outlets – is not confined just to the GOP’s patriarchs.
AOC told GQ that Democrats, better known as the keepers of the woke, also despise her for her genitalia – even though the party ran a woman for president in 2016 and made a woman the current vice president to the oldest man ever elected to the White House, the first time a female has been this close to the presidency.
“Others may see a person who is admired, but my everyday lived experience here is as a person who is despised,” she told GQ of being in Congress.
“Imagine working a job and your bosses don’t like you and folks on your team are suspicious of you. And then the competing company is trying to kill you.”
“Sometimes little girls will say, ‘Oh, I want you to be president,’ or things like that,” she continued. “It’s very difficult for me to talk about because it provokes a lot of inner conflict in that I never want to tell a little girl what she can’t do. And I don’t want to tell young people what is not possible. I’ve never been in the business of doing that.”
“But at the same time,” AOC added, “I hold two contradictory things [in mind] at the same time. One is just the relentless belief that anything is possible. But at the same time, my experience here has given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women. And they hate women of color.”
“People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September,” she added melodramatically.
“And that weighs very heavily on me. And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center. This grip of patriarchy affects all of us, not just women; men, as I mentioned before, but also, ideologically, there’s an extraordinary lack of self-awareness in so many places.”
Apparently, those places include the inside of AOC’s noggin.
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