Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Orangeslice13 said:
She’s just in over her head.
Ideas of “we should.....” are one thing. And if you have a heart you should have and be thinking those things. Understanding reality and how the world actually works is another thing. Understanding that will only come with experience. Carrier politicians and the young will never be the answer as they have never had failures to learn from or the experience of what actually works
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Great analysis and comment. Very much in keeping with the adage that if you aren't liberal when young, you have no heart; and if not conservative later you haven't learned much ... forgot all the right words. You are exactly right, though, that to have the wisdom to make the right choices in life, you actually have to have lived life, felt the responsibility, and not simply have been coddled as a child, student, or career politician, actor, etc. We keep giving a voice to people who haven't attained the wisdom needed to make the right choices ... lowering the voting age is a prime example.
 
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AM64 said:
Great analysis and comment. Very much in keeping with the adage that if you aren't liberal when young, you have no heart; and if not conservative later you haven't learned much ... forgot all the right words. You are exactly right, though, that to have the wisdom to make the right choices in life, you actually have to have lived life, felt the responsibility, and not simply have been coddled as a child, student, or career politician, actor, etc. We keep giving a voice to people who haven't attained the wisdom needed to make the right choices ... lowering the voting age is a prime example.
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The international business professor at Tennessee opened the first day of class with that quote.
 
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When all the Luther’s didn’t show up to the 2nd class he said “look around, what we have left are business people”
One lady said “I don’t agree with what you said” and he said “yes but you’re still here so you can hear different ideas and think.....you’ll agree with me when you reach 40 years old”

A lot of how I think was learned in his classes. Interesting that he was also a Democrat like me. I wonder if he also left the Dems in disgust.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
When all the Luther’s didn’t show up to the 2nd class he said “look around, what we have left are business people”
One lady said “I don’t agree with what you said” and he said “yes but you’re still here so you can hear different ideas and think.....you’ll agree with me when you reach 40 years old”

A lot of how I think was learned in his classes. Interesting that he was also a Democrat like me. I wonder if he also left the Dems in disgust.
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Agree at 40? lol...... I always amend that quote with, and if you haven't regained your liberalism by age 65 you never achieved wisdom.
 
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He told a story once about controlling your emotions.

He’d been in Japan for 10 years then went to Germany for a couple of months. While walking down the street one night a man had just been thrown out of a bar. The USA had just beaten Germany in soccer and the guy was angry. The German recognized the professor as American. The German stuck a bird finger in the professors face. It had been so long since he’d seen a bird finger he didn’t recognize it. When he finally got it he got tickled at himself and started laughing. The poor German walked slowly away confused looking back thinking “I must not have done that correctly “. The point is you don’t have to get mad when people say things to you. You can just not recognize it and laugh it off.


Ya, he had wisdom too
 
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luthervol said:
Agree at 40? lol...... I always amend that quote with, and if you haven't regained your liberalism by age 65 you never achieved wisdom.
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If you've learned anything at all about life, then returning to liberalism at an advanced age makes no sense. Now if you are one of those who never achieved, never learned, and are ready to simply reap "entitlements", then, perhaps I could understand a return to liberalism.
 
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AM64 said:
No such thing as piling on with Luther; it's more like talking to a thick brick wall ... totally impervious to anything outside the party line.
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I don't follow the party line as much as the party line follows me. I'm always on the look out for the candidate that most closely aligns with me.
 
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AM64 said:
If you've learned anything at all about life, then returning to liberalism at an advanced age makes no sense. Now if you are one of those who never achieved, never learned, and are ready to simply reap "entitlements", then, perhaps I could understand a return to liberalism.
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100% wrong. I've seen it play out multiple times
 
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