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[quote=Anonymous][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]
A lot of things are brilliant in Animal Farm.  I never thought of it as about "hypocrisy" but as about power systems.  If you don't see how it could apply to capitalist systems, I suggest you read it again with that in mind.

We love to hunt hypocrites, but we seldom challenge power.  Even when we take power, we end up frittering it away because we are too frightened to keep it.  So keep hunting hypocrites while the pigs pick your pocket.

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Its literature so you can read it as you wish ,  though some interpretations are more equal than others (joke!). Of course it is about power and why not extend the critique to capitalism? Capitalist democracy is probably the best of imperfect systems that would work for a country of our scale and diversity - that does not mean it's perfect. With that being said, when he wrote it he was addressing Stalinism, extreme redistribution ofwealth, the tendency of revolutions to turn in themselves, and an inarguable theme of absolute power corrupting absolutely - with an overwhelming hypocrisy of the starting assertion was to "improve" the wellbeing of all. AoC is a hypocrite of her own devising. It will be interesting to see how far she goes with that.[/quote]
We pay Congress members a good salary, and I think we should because it is an important job.  I have hard time getting worked up about her living in fairly modest (by the standards of most DCUM members) apartment.  I have more trouble with CEOs who run their companies into the ground then get fired with severance packages worth more than most people earn in a lifetime.[/quote]

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