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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6722955/amp/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-moves-luxury-apartment-complex-NO-affordable-housing-units.html

Ocasio-Cortez makes $174,000 annually with her congressional salary and has used the funds to move into the posh Navy Yard neighborhood in Washington D.C. that, ironically, is also a favorite of President Donald Trump's staffers.

My mother was a socialist when I was growing up and lived at home. She still is. She painted a picture of socialism that sounded good. I definitely was a lefty in college. Extreme.

But stuff like this is why I cannot take socialism seriously. The minute AOC gets to DC, it’s luxury for her.

If she truly was a working class champion, she’d live somewhere less expensive and donate or help the poor and downtrodden.

That’s supposed to be the difference between people like her and the rich baddies. But it seems all people want is to feed voters a line, get in office, and then, good times.

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For security reasons, if nothing else.  Not that it's any of your business.
Yep. This is why Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a classic. I am a DC resident--have never understood why the Obamas, Clintons etc. don't send their kids to school with "the people" or live with "the people". Last one to do so was Jimmy Carter (school). There are lots and lots of places to live in DC--she could do the "English basement" experience so many of us did coming up, or live in a "transitional" neighborhood in a less than luxury flat like so many teachers and first responders. Hard to take her seriously, for sure.[/quote][/quote]
Umm, you do realize that Orwell was a socialist and Animal Farm applies to capitalism too, right?[/quote]

He was a British democratic socialist and in the context of the times Animal Farm applied squarely to the excesses of the Russian Revolution  and Stalinism. I think his adage " all animals are equal, but some animal are more equal than others" applies squarely to an American democratic socialist taking a luxury flat... hypocrisy then, hypocrisy now... and remember, what was brilliant in Animal Farm was how the hypocrisy always started so small and with so much justification.[/quote]

Oh brother!  She didn't "take" a flat.  She paid rent for it.  And for the record, George Orwell paid a nanny to take care of his son in his flat while he lived on the Isle of Jura on an estate owned by an English aristocrat. It's very lovely there, honestly.

So no, your intuition about Orwell's feelings about apartment rentals is a world away from the truth.[/quote]

Orwell was an artist and that sounds like typical patronage for the time so he could pursue his craft. Possibky the aristocrat was.sympathetic to democratic socialism. Animal Farm critiques hypocritical leaders who ask far more of followers than they do of themselves. As AOC is a political figure feeding from the.public trough I'm pretty sure an Orwellian critique of her spending " her.money" on a luxury flat stands.[/quote]

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