Author: Lauren Johnson / Source: INSIDER
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke about her self-described socialist values at the SXSW festival and called moderate politics “an attitude towards life, of, like, ‘meh.'”
- She also critiqued capitalism, saying “capitalism is irredeemable. ”
- Her remarks follow a tweet last week aimed at Ivanka Trump, who she said was against the idea of a minimum wage.
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s controversial views on capitalism have made her a target of both Republicans and Democrats, who have also balked at her disagreement with moderate politics.
During a talk at SXSW on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez called the moderate perspective “an attitude towards life of, like, ‘meh,”, according to NBC News.
“We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We view ambition as youthful naivete when … the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious…
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