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Originally Posted by tabbaker
The Twitter deplorable are absolutely shook at that AOC clip
She is so good at shifting the conversation to the left.
Deplorables are used to arguing their crazy far-far-right bat****tery vs. mealy-mouth centrist establishment Dem positions. So of course we agree to settle somewhere in the middle. And then the derposphere stakes out an even further right position the next day.
Then someone like AOC comes along - who's still nowhere near as left as they are right, and whose positions would have been bog-standard 40 years ago - and it just blows their minds to smithereens.
Wait what? You can't say that. You can't say rich people should be taxed at 70%. We're having an argument about 36.2% top tax rate vs. eliminating progressive taxation altogether - because we don't understand marginal tax rates - and why don't we just raises taxes to 100% chessmate - and we're pretty sure it's just robbing from my rich uncle that I wish I had to give to lazy minorities.
How are we supposed to process 70%? Can you really say that? Did she just say that and not get hauled away by men in white coats?
It's basically the flip side of the **** that comes out of Trump's mouth. Except again - her positions actually make sense and would be standard 40 years ago - whereas you have to go back to like the 1820s for Trump's.
The funniest part is the derposphere is wasting all their Hillary hate spigot on her, and she can't even run for a while. I'm sure on some level strategically they know it's bad to keep focusing on her, but they just can't help themselves. It's too tasty for them.