"AOC ... She's dangerous because her simple minded I-know-it- all approach is no match for the complexity of existence."
Paulie, please, ... that sweet, well-meaning young lady is not dangerous. She has no power - that's what Pelosi threw in their faces - "Hey - they're 4 votes - who gives a sh*t?"
In fact, this is an Object Lesson in how this Country is run. Why is everyone talking about these four women who have no Juice? Think about that ...
The focus on these four women serves One Purpose ... it works towards dividing Americans into two factions and pitting them against one another, so that they are not a threat of uniting in common purpose to address our real problems. Divide and conquer ... It creates a situation where, regardless of the real problems in this Country, one side blindly groups together and says ... "We have got to beat Trump .... no matter what." No matter what? Seriously? The fact is that Trump is not that important. He did not create any of the fundamental problems that need fixing. But now this attack causes the people who backed Trump (many out of desperation to try something new ...) to rally around him, no matter what his failures, and view the attackers as their enemy, the real problem. And Trump's attackers are not the problem ...
Let's take a quick look at the real problems this Country has --- it really traces to Bill Clinton's Administration, where the "Neo-Liberals" seized control of the Democratic Party and started uniting with the Republicans to sell out American Labor with NAFTA and other trade deals to follow. Billionaire Perot became the lone opposing voice, and he wasn't strong enough. Clinton also united with the Republicans to take Depression-Era restraints off of Wall Street - repealing Glass-Steagal, which predictably led to the Bailouts in 2008, and the two Parties have been joined at the hip ever since in giving Wall Street whatever it wants. After 9/11, the two parties have also been united in dismantling our Bill of Rights protections and giving a blank check to the Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Banking apparatus to spend Trillions on useless, pointless foreign interventions that only make the Oligarchs richer, while gutting the wealth of the Country.
Now ... add to all of that the advancements in robotics -- listen to Andrew Yang (a successful capitalist) explain how one of the last bastions of American Labor - the trucking industry - is about to be replaced with robotics, where much of the profits from that transfer will go to Amazon's Jeff Bezos - perhaps doubling his billions ... again. You want an example of an Oligarch - he owns the Washington Post, works directly with the CIA and Defense Department and Wall Street.
So ... first American Labor was sold out to foreign slave labor (for the good of capitalism and free trade) and now it is being replaced by robotics. These are real problems that are replacing our Middle Class with an ever-expanding list of Billionaires and dominating multi-national Corporations.
When Trump ran on the promise of tackling one-sided Trade Deals and to stop wasting American Treasure on ridiculous foreign entanglements -- he was appealing to a lot of people who were suffering from these real problems. That's what American Labor (Reagan Democrats) and many in the Middle Class thought they were voting for with the MAGA theme. But Trump doesn't have that kind of Juice, assuming he cared at all, as opposed to just listening to his polling advisers ....
The ever-growing disparity in wealth in this Nation cannot be sustained -- we don't need to allow Jeff Bezos to make another 150 Billion over the dismantling of the Trucking Industry. We don't need to waste another Trillion over the next ten years going to war with the Dictator Du Jour, which is what causes the immigration problems in the first place ... all the refugees we create throughout the world ...
The problem is not Trump or AOC ... they are merely symptoms of the problem. Americans cannot forever let the Ruling Oligarchs divide them up into blue shirts vs. red shirts rooting for their pro-wrestling champion in a fixed match, while the rulers sip champagne in their luxury boxes and look down and laugh over how EASILY they fool the American People into fighting with each other, instead of uniting in a common cause ...