Above: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, colloquially known as ‘AOC’, is a self-identified democratic socialist and rising star in the Democrat Party. She recently announced an extremely ambitious, and arguably highly unrealistic plan, ‘The Green New Deal’ which promises to make the United States carbon-neutral in 11 years (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/New York Magazine). Previously, I wrote...
The following is part one of a two-part essay on the reasons for the growth of Socialism in 2010s America. Above: Residents protest evictions in San Francisco, where Sillicon Valley’s gentrification has resulted in skyrocketing housing costs and growing homelessness (credit: Zelda Bronstein, The Nation/Ted Gullicksen, Antievictionmappingproject.net). One out of three millennials in Donald Trump’s America...