AOC, the squad, and fake progressives

Pick four different ethnic women;
provide each of them with a script that is focused on keeping real progressives within the blue party;
and, give them plenty of press via the corporate media.

It’s very tempting to take Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) at her word. Judging from what she says, she has become the perfect voice for progressives. At the 2019 SXSW Conference, she was outspoken in her criticism of the dominant economic system on the planet:

"Capitalism is an ideology of capital—the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit ... And that comes at any cost to people and to the environment ... so to me capitalism is irredeemable. ... we’re reckoning with the consequences of putting profit above everything else in society. And what that means is people can’t afford to live. For me, it’s a question of priorities and right now I don’t think our model is sustainable. ... we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government ..."

Unfortunately, Ocasio-Cortez is a fake progressive. The sole mission of fake progressives, vis-a-vis their puppet masters, is to keep real progressives from voting for actual progressive third-party candidates. Talk is cheap, and that is as far as any "progressive" ideas get in the Congress, unless they are used as a bait and switch to maintain blue party branding, like gay rights (given and taken away to create distraction and division) or social security (the funds for which have been stolen and the program itself has been switched from an insurance fund annuity to an entitlement). Who wrote Obamacare, a supposedly blue party initiative? The insurance companies, as is now plainly evidence, given the skyrocketing premiums and penalties for the poor. Even treaties, such as the Iran nuclear deal made under Obama, has been scuttled by Trump. Who benefitted by the inspections? The Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel and its military proxies (the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, and Israel).

Ocasio-Cortez lifted the name and superficial spin of her so-called Green New Deal from ‪Jill Stein‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬'s 2012 platform, apparently because Stein got way more votes in 2016 than were reported (which is why three of the swing states refused to audit their reported vote totals). AOC's proposal gives no credit to those from whom she stole and altered ideas. Further, Ocasio-Cortez, wittingly or unwittingly, does not understand the details of the real Green New Deal. This is why her tax proposals are uninformed. If she did understand it, then she would know the original platform includes making the Fed a publicly controlled central bank. The Fed is the source of power of the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel that controls the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and many other nations.

Public control over the Fed would end profiteering on war, healthcare, education, and most other markets, would quickly eliminate the so-called "national debt" (since we would no longer be paying principal and interest on private bank notes created from thin air and passed off as our "legal tender"), and the imbedded 30 to 40% interest in the cost of goods and services, which eats away at our productive capacity, would also disappear. It would also make most taxes irrelevant. So, her proposal for a 70% tax rate on high incomes is completely within the blue-red political party marketing brand charade, and has nothing to do with the real Green New Deal.

Instead, what Ocasio-Cortez offers is a plan that serves her puppet masters' fascist agenda.

The same applies to her notion of "democratic socialism." If the Fed remains under private control, then there will be no democracy or socialism, except for the 1%.

Speaking of which, on July 25, 2019, AOC was joined by Rashida Tlaib, another member of the so-called "Democratic Socialists of America," as well as Tulsi Gabbard, in voting for a record $738 billion military budget. In October 2020, AOC and Tlaib sought to further co-op the original Green New Deal and public banking movement by proposing a rollout of public banks across the U.S. Much like the 2020 California law establishing the procedure for public banks, the squad's plan seeks to standardize state, county, and local public banks, to prevent the public sector from stepping on the cartel's toes. While public banks would be a huge help for the nation's political subdivisions—much like the German model, where such banks maintain and improve local infrastructure and sustainable energy sources—the overall power structure and decimation and enslavement of the middle class would continue unimpeded.

Worse yet, despite all her talk and squawk about the fake Green New Deal she proposes, she voted for House Bill 1616 that funds fracking for natural gas—the excuse being to challenge Russia’s dominance of this market in Europe. And, of course, we all know that the blue political party marketing brand, of which Ocasio-Cortez is a part, are the new red-baiting McCarthyites.

And there's more. AOC called John McCain a war hero. There is no one who was in the streets in the late ‘60’s protesting the war in Vietnam that would call anyone dropping napalm, agent orange, and bombs on the Vietnamese a war hero. McCain was a war criminal. (AOC's compatriot in #fakeprogressivism, Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN), recently joined AOC's lockstep subservience to U.S. militarism by supporting bombing of her native country, Somalia.)

Also, in the vote for Speaker of the House, Ocasio-Cortez supported Pelosi, who oversees the blue party Congresspersons' voting assignments, which allows some brand maintenance for puppets while ensuring that the cartel’s objectives are met. As per the plan of creating a dead-end for the Green New Deal, Pelosi refused to consider it. Pelosi is another war criminal complicit in supporting the illegal global wars of our military.

In early March 2019, the Federal Election Commission began an investigation naming both Ocasio-Cortez' campaign chair and herself as respondents, and demanding that two of her PACs be audited because they were allegedly engaged in "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures," involving over $1 million. We have not heard anything more on this issue since AOC now votes with party leadership.

When it came to Julian Assange being sold to the global corporate syndicate by Ecuador, for exposing their crimes, Ocasio-Cortez had this to say:

"There's a lot of concern for folks who disagree or are troubled by Assange's past. To my knowledge, the specific charges that were raised for his extradition were even ones that the Obama administration entertained but turned down because it was kind of beyond the pale in terms of an attack on journalism and journalists."

This is a cop out. Assange did exactly what the New York Times has done on numerous occasions, in terms of publishing leaked documents; however, he is being attacked by the very criminals whose crimes he exposed.

When it comes to Venezuela, Ocasio-Cortez is equally clueless, saying she would follow party leadership, which supports the global corporate crime syndicate’s puppet, Juan Guaido, as "interim president." Essentially, she is aligning herself with an attempt by the fascists at yet another coup d’état.

Then, during the scripted charade of the blue and red party marketing brands considering the impeachment of Trump over the Mueller report, she initially declared that she would follow party leadership, and when the script called for a resolution to impeach, she supported it:

As to the grounds on which she believes Trump should be impeached, Ocasio-Cortez said the president’s unwillingness to divest himself from his family’s business indicated "serious grounds in violations of the emoluments clause from day one." Further grounds, she suggested, "could emerge from the ongoing investigations into Trump’s campaign and potential links to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election."

Yes, true, Trump and a long line of Presidents preceding him pay no heed to the Constitution, or international law, for that matter, but here's the kicker: "... links to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election." The evidence is quite clear that this never happened (and here), other than a click-bait site that spent virtually no money. Most importantly, evidence from independent exit polls makes it quite clear who did the hacking for Clinton in the blue party primary and for Trump in the general election: those who manufacture and program the electronic voting and counting machines—the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel that controls the governments of the U.S., U.K., France, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.

And did we mention that AOC, champion of the fake Green New Deal, is "leaving the door open for nuclear energy"? Yep!

It gets worse. While the corporate press made of big deal of AOC's questioning of Mark Zuckerberg regarding the way that Facebook chooses to deal with what it terms fake news, in actuality AOC is supporting the suppression of progressive websites that her puppet masters deem counter to their interests. As Edward Snowden said, "Facebook is surveillance posing as social media." The whistleblowers—Assange, Manning, and Snowden—are in jail or exiled, while the criminals—the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the military and intelligence services, the corporate executives—are free to live off what they have stolen and for which they have murdered millions of people around the world.

In November 2020, political commentator and satirist Jimmy Dore villfied AOC for lying about the blue party's sorry record on the Covid-19 bailouts.

Finally, it is a false assumption made by those whose consciousness remains within the blue political party marketing brand charade that Ocasio-Cortez is receiving publicity because she is the real deal; on the contrary, no real progressive gets the kind of publicity that AOC is getting from the corporate press without being a tool of that power structure. Her early outspoken commentary gave her progressive credibility, and the squad built on this, giving the Congress the appearance of diversity of thought, gender, and color.

To paraphrase Ben Jonson's epigram to the first folio of the works of Shakespeare, "Look not at their images, but how they vote."

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Further notes:

Here's another analysis along the same lines as the above article.

Here’s an analysis of the power structure that controls the playing field.

Here’s how Pelosi and the blue political party marketing brand killed the fake progressive fake Green New Deal (and here).

Here's an article regarding Ilhan Omar's refusal to condemn Turkey's Armenian genocide while she criticizes Israel; i.e., she is okay when Islam is doing the slaughtering, not when folks fight back.

Ilhan Omar's vote against the recognition of Turkey's Armenian genocide came on the heels of a contribution from the co-chairman of a Turkish-American advocacy group that is closely linked to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Under Erdogan’s watch, Turkey has become the world’s leading jailer of journalists, according to Amnesty International. In addition to Erdogan's ethnic cleansing of the Kurds, he is threatening to attack Turkish Jews.

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