freelancer-stormscorpion:somuchanxietysolittletime:freelancer-stormscorpion:onceideals:freelancer-st
freelancer-stormscorpion:somuchanxietysolittletime:freelancer-stormscorpion:onceideals:freelancer-stormscorpion:bookworm-christina:sirfrogsworth:freelancer-stormscorpion:sirfrogsworth:Note: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduated Cum Laude from Boston University. Wasn’t she working as a bar tender before she got elected?Folks on the right always seem very concerned that AOC was a bartender. They ignore her prestigious education and the fact that she graduated with distinction. They ignore that she has relevant degrees. And they ignore that she worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute gaining relevant experience in activism.I’ve also noticed that conservatives constantly complain about “elites.” They propped up “Joe Six Pack” because they felt too many lawmakers were out of touch and they wanted people who understood the common folk. Blue collar workers are the heart and soul of America, right? Did you know that nearly half of congress is filled with lawyers? And the rest are mostly businessmen. What do lawyers know about my life? What do lawyers know about struggling to pay bills? What do lawyers know about what it’s like to hold a low wage job? How are they supposed to represent me and my needs?Do you know why AOC worked as a bartender? Her father died and her mother’s jobs as a house cleaner and bus driver were not enough to fight foreclosure. So Alexandria put her career ambitions on hold and got a job as a bartender to help her mom. Conservatives are all about “family values” right? AOC valued her family so much that she worked a grueling job out of love for her mom. And you want to trivialize that? AOC knows my struggle more than Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. I have confidence that AOC will represent me and my family’s needs more so than any lawyer or businessman who is just looking to enrich themselves. Maybe we need a few more bartenders and a few less lawyers. @freelancer-stormscorpion: What does AOC being a bartender have to do with anything? Are you saying that bartenders are stupid? How very elitist and snobby of you…I asked a simple question and boy do you people come out swinging, want to know what’s really elitist, thinking somebody is better cause of the honors they earned in school.That wasn’t a question cause an easy online search could have answered your question. You were egging people on, there’s a difference.If you take offence to a question then that’s your own fault, its not my responsibility to know the life story of every politician.It’s not our responsibility to be nice when someone is ignorantly spreading half-truths. You could have easily Googled, ‘AOC Education’ before posting this comment. You chose not to. You chose to spread this myth that AOC isn’t qualified. You chose to dismiss her history by not bothering to learn it. And now you choose to whine like a child because people aren’t being respectful enough while educating you.Grow up.What half truth, I didn’t say she was unqualified, I did look up ‘AOC Education’ and I see that she went Boston University graduated Cum Laude. I’m just pointing out a part that needed to be explained, I wanted to know why she was a Bartender because she certainly didn’t go to college to become a bartender. The question was answered and people still choose to be insulting, at this point its not whining its calling out BS.A theory: maybe she worked to get paid money to live.Just a hunch -- source link