Alexandria

Ocasio-Cortez:

The New Face of the Catholic Left?

By Jesse Russell, Ph.D.

On January 3, 2019, the 116th Congress of the United States convened in Washington, D.C. for a new legislative session. Among the newly elected members of the House of Representatives is one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated the longtime incumbent from New York’s 14th congressional district, Joe Crowley, by a whopping 15 percentage points in the June 28, 2018 Democratic primary election.

This victory was representative of the demographic sea-change that has transformed the Democratic Party in the northeastern United States from the working-class party of ethnic Catholics, such as Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neill, into a new "broken coalition" of members of the LGBT community, radicalized people of color (or "POC), and a new class of hipster "bugmen", themselves a lower testosterone version of their ethnic Catholic Democrat forefathers.

The now-defeated Joe Crowley is emblematic of the old Democratic Party that came to dominate the northeastern United States. The son of an Irish Catholic cop from New York, Crowley attended a Jesuit prep school and graduated from Queen’s College, a traditional staging point for New York ethnic Catholics to climb their way out of the tough blue-collar jobs of their parents. In fact, New York’s 14th district, covering the "outer boroughs" of New York, was the district of the fictional Archie Bunker, the emblematic angry working-class dad from the 1970’s hit sitcom All in the Family.

Crowley himself was the quintessential bad Catholic Democrat. He was pro-abortion, prohomosexual "marriage," and championed the radical demographic replacement of Americans. A powerful and influential veteran of the Democratic machine serving nearly 20 years in his seat, Crowley was even eyeing the position of Speaker of the House.

Nevertheless, he was outmatched by a young and aspiring Puerto Rican who markets herself as a hip Latina bartender from the Bronx (more on that later) as well as a progressive liberal Catholic or "LeftCat."

She even wrote a piece for LeftCat Central, America Magazine, on how her Catholic faith is an inspiration for her desired "criminal justice reform."

Ocasio-Cortez’s Catholic faith is not enough to inspire her to defend Christian (i.e. natural) marriage or the life of unborn children in the womb. In fact, her positions on sodomite "marriage" and abortion were largely kept away from her mostly Hispanic constituency until after she locked down the Democratic primary.

Truth be told, there are a lot of confusing and mysterious contradictions about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (popularly known as AOC).

Although she is marketed as a " chica from the block" who grew up in the Bronx who, according to her official biography, was forced to commute 40 minutes to a school in another wealthier district—a commute that allegedly defined much of her earlier life—Ocasio-Cortez actually only lived in the Bronx for a few years after her birth.

This " chica from the block" is actually the daughter of the CEO of Kirschenbaum & Ocasio-Roman Architects. She actually grew up in Yorktown Heights, located in the suburbs of Westchester County, which has a median household income of $96,413. Thus, her official biography appears to be somewhat misleading.

Moreover, although marketing herself during the campaign as a Catholic Puerto Rican, Ocasio-Cortez recently transitioned over to a trans-religious and trans-ethnic global citizen.

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Her ties with various Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are also curious.

As she admits on the leftist Young Turks program, she was asked by two NGOs— Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress—to run for office. As the Daily Caller notes, Justice Democrats were co-founded by the Young Turk’s Cenk Uygur.

While presenting themselves as a grassroots organization of, for, and by the people, the Young Turks are part of the Media Consortium funded by none other than our old friend George Soros.

If the Media Consortium and its ties to George Soros ring a bell for Catholics, it should.

In April of last year, Crisis Magazine’s Austin Ruse published a piece noting that attacks on Newman Guide Catholic universities in the left-wing Catholic press were being bankrolled by the Nazi-collaborating "Hungarian" billionaire, George Soros, via The Media Consortium.

Not shy about their association with Soros, the "old lady" of liberal Catholic journalism, the National Catholic Reporter, is proudly part of the Media Consortium’s directory.

But what about America Magazine, which published Ocasio-Cortez’s piece advocating a South Africa-style open season on law-abiding citizens from criminals who know they will only receive a slap on the wrist?

Is there a connection with the Soros Media Consortium and the Soros "Catholic" representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the humble Jesuit newspaper? Not directly, but maybe the notorious James Bond-styled villain from Hungary has no need to slip America a few "Benjamins."

Even without verifiable Media Consortium Soros cash, America Magazine is a very strange and interesting place. In addition to showcasing writers who praise violent, racist, and sex offender infested terrorist organizations like ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter, America has rebranded itself as LeftCat central, promoting "prolife Democrats" like Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana along with a smattering of pieces endorsing elements of traditional Catholic piety like the rosary to lure in confused but sincerely pious Catholics.

While they try to maintain their friendly hipster Catholic image on one hand, we can be sure that as globalist-approved faux ethnic and faux Catholic candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez capitalize on the deliberate and malicious demographic and cultural changes wrought on the United States, America is happy to lend their support to the cause.

But there is a coda to this story of "lifetime actor" candidates and subterfuge of both the United States of America and the American Catholic media, and it is a hopeful coda.

Catholics of European descent as well as Catholic Hispanics living in the U.S.

and south of the border have a common spiritual heritage.

We share a common baptism and a common patrimony as heirs to Christendom.

The contemporary crisis of migration and the attendant reaction of populism is an opportunity for collaborative spiritual and political warfare against globalism, a common enemy to us that is bringing about a New World Order of perversion, occultism, and both physical and spiritual slavery.

While we must respect a true diversity and plurality of peoples and nations and borders, the enemy is not the illegal immigrant or the gringo.

It is not the migrant or the native.

Our fight is, as St. Paul says, "against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places."

Let us then follow the words of the apostle in our common struggle together: "Therefore take unto you the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect." ■