On Thursday, Democratic Socialist candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez labeled the future of the Democratic Party by DNC Chair Tom Perez, issued a somewhat cryptic tweet falsely claiming that Republicans are “terrified” of her far-left politics and issued a warning about libraries.

“If you think the GOP is terrified of my politics now, just wait until they find out about public libraries,” she said in a tweet that has since received over 120,000 likes.

If you think the GOP is terrified of my politics now, just wait until they find out about public libraries. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 5, 2018

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Public Libraries? Is she talking about the repressive library police who make people penniless by robbing their income at a rate of ten cents for every day your book is late? Not sure but Twitchy is concerned.

“That sent chills up our spines for sure,” Twitchy said. Chills? And that’s during a heat wave.

Others weighed in, in an apparently unsuccessful bid to educate the young New York socialist about the dangers of Socialism and Marxism.

If you think the GOP is terrified of my politics now, just wait until they find out about public libraries. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 5, 2018

I guess those public libraries didn’t teach you anything about basic economics. — Red Dirt Conservative (@RedDirtConserv1) July 5, 2018

MAN! There he goes, upsetting the library police.

You should visit socialist countries, wonder what you’ll do when OPM runs out. Ppl will b in streets as in Venezuela? See condition of Cuba and parts of EU, LA/SFCA?? You should fear your own policies what radical school again? @JudgeJeanine @SaraCarterDC @michellemalkin — GinaCaputo (@akaginacaputo) July 5, 2018

We already have public libraries. — Colleen Payne Ciao Bella (@ColleenSPayne) July 5, 2018

Yes, we do, and they do a great job! Hopefully, the complement will convince the library police where I grew up in Oceanside NY, to looking to get back that fifty cents I forgot to pay 40 years ago when I was five days late turning in the copy of “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” With interest, they say the money I owe is well into the six figures.

One person countered by saying the existence of libraries somehow proves that we already have socialism.

Her point is that it’s a program provided by the state. Socialism. — Juan Vaamonde (@javaamonde) July 5, 2018

But that not how this works. For far too many low-information leftists, anything provided by the government is an example of socialism. What leftists fail to realize, however, is that those things are funded by taxpayers whose money is confiscated by the government.

Well, unless you consider a library a means of production you’ve missed the mark by quite a bit. pic.twitter.com/b6PtkPA7LI — Decoding_Q (@QDecoder) July 6, 2018

Even “The Lid” got involved because “the future of the Democratic Party’s” tweet reminded him of Joseph Stalin and Germany’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party (AKA Nazis)

If you think the GOP is terrified of my politics now, just wait until they find out about public libraries. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 5, 2018

Well, unless you consider a library a means of production you’ve missed the mark by quite a bit. pic.twitter.com/b6PtkPA7LI — Decoding_Q (@QDecoder) July 6, 2018

It is so easy for you to tout socialism because you will be in the ruling class taking everything that belongs to everyone else, pulling all the strings and making all the decisions. It’s not a mystery why you find this ideology so appealing. — justhere (@KFerrugia) July 6, 2018

AH-HA! Ruling Class! Like when Obama was president?

But it’s not appealing.

One person told Ocasio-Cortez:

The GOP is terrified because they’ve seen the affects of your politics in Venezuela and other countries destroyed by socialism. Poverty crushes the spirit. — MarieTweets (@mkues65) July 6, 2018

I found out in my local library that your politics killed over 100 million people last century https://t.co/mZ88ypnddG — Stephen Shaw (@czechov) July 6, 2018

Probably because leftists think it hasn’t been done right.

Then there’s this:

I’m looking forward to eating zoo animals — Commander of Cheese (@thematthew26) July 6, 2018

Eating zoo anima …you mean like Harambe??

Welcome to Venezuela…or Cuba?

Just think — THIS is the future of the Democrat Party, according to DNC boss Tom Perez. No wonder so many are “walking away” from it right now. Maybe they should #RunAway. Fast.

Much of this post was initially seen at ConservativeFiringLine