Hate belongs to the right-wing, no contest. But you should be careful bringing love to the fight, buddy. You just might see your numbers dwindling...quash wrote:You don't know whether you should secretly love the guy or not.
I’m A Conservative, And I Went To An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rally
Oh you conservatives are going to pine for the days of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi!But then Ocasio-Cortez spoke, [...] and I saw something truly terrifying. I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for the populist lines they were shouting from that stage.
I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education.
I saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends meet, to accept the idea that a “living wage” was a human right.
Above all, I saw how easy it would be to accept the notion that it was the government’s job to make sure that those things were provided.
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I left the rally with a photo — in part to remind myself of that time I crashed a rally headlined by a socialist, but also in part to remind myself that there, but for the grace of God, go I.