Democrats are in a panic because ten-term representative Joe Crowley out of New York, in line for a high leadership post in the party, was beaten by the seat-of-the-pants campaign of 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is no cause for celebration on the right, because Ocasio-Cortez seems to be to the left of far-lefty Bernie Sanders.  An avowed socialist, Ocasio-Cortez may herald a new era of lunatic positions and politics on the left. Not that we haven't seen that before. Polls have shown that Millennials in general think socialism is just grand.  Evidently, they are paying no attention to the catastrophe that has overtaken Venezuela under socialist president Nicolás Maduro – people starving and fleeing the country by the hundreds of thousands as hyperinflation sucks all the oxygen out of the economy.  This result always accompanies socialism, because socialism kills personal initiative and unfailingly births...(Read Full Post)