The right-wing Daily Caller made a trip to Kansas to see Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders speak. This rally in a deep-red state had to be moved to a larger venue because it sold out in under 10 hours. It's important to remember while reading this article that the writer is opposed to Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, and that she is trying to smear socialism.

I can't emphasize this enough, because it certainly looks like the writer is doing PR work for the DSA.

But then Ocasio-Cortez spoke, followed by Bush, and I saw something truly terrifying. I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for the populist lines they were shouting from that stage. I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education.

I saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends meet, to accept the idea that a “living wage” was a human right.

Above all, I saw how easy it would be to accept the notion that it was the government’s job to make sure that those things were provided.

Yes, how "terrifying" it would be if all the children got the healthcare and education they needed to thrive, and all workers made enough to live on.

How, uh...hmmm. Scary??

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "We will not rest until every person in this country is paid a living wage to lead a dignified life." pic.twitter.com/6u73x2kyVI — FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) July 23, 2018

“I was listening to them talk – to Ocasio-Cortez and also to Cori Bush, who she was stumping for in St. Louis – and they say things, they talk about things that everybody wants, especially if you’re a parent,” the writer said. “They talk about education for your kids. They talk about health care for you kids. The things that you want. If you’re not really paying attention to how they’re going to pay for it or the rest of that, it’s easy to fall into that trap and to say, ‘My kids deserve this,’ and, ‘Maybe the government should be responsible for helping me with that.'” “I was mostly uncomfortable,” she continued. “I was surrounded by a group of people who had gotten involved because they were tired of being angry all the time. It seems like so much effort to be angry about everything instead of focusing on what you could do to change it. It was really uncomfortable.”

How uncomfortable it is to be surrounded by people trying to change the world for the better in a proactive way, rather than being angry all the time.

Or was that terrifying?

Remember, they are trying to smear socialism, not promote it.

It's kind of hard to tell, so trust me on this.

All they can do is tell you that you are some sort of weirdo by wanting working people to live with dignity. Because reasons.

Nevermind all the polls that show socialist policies are popular.

