The New AOC Is More Dangerous Than The Old One

There was a huge announcement yesterday. 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — no longer So Fresh, So Face — and the heir apparent to Bernie Sanders, announced she is running for president in 2028. 

She did not do so by announcing it formally, but by doing two other things: she broadcast freezing her eggs on Instagram, and she laughed off Woke 1.0 as if it were no big deal.

Welcome to the 2028 Democratic presidential campaign, where biology is an obstacle to your happiness, and we’re substituting third-worldism for Woke 1.0. 

This is her announcement that she was putting her natural biology on hold to pursue the presidency.

She’s 36 years old. She’s perfectly healthy. She’s been in a relationship with this dude she is not married to for the last five years, for a reason no one can discern. She could just go have a baby the fun and easy way. Instead, she’s choosing IVF – freezing the eggs and then later undergoing in vitro fertilization.

IVF is really expensive. It is time-consuming. It is tough on the body for a healthy 36-year-old woman. Let’s say that you wanted to do it the old-fashioned, natural way. The chances of conceiving and having a healthy baby within one year of starting to try are somewhere between 75 and 80%. Now, let’s say you harvest that same 36-year-old woman’s eggs. The chances of a live birth per IVF round are around 40%. And the process is really, really not pleasant. 

But Ocasio-Cortez went on national TV and showed what she is doing.

It was a little crazy.

Let’s start at the beginning with the public — and very weird — announcement that she was freezing her eggs. 

Yes, we’re allowed to say it’s weird. It’s her decision, but deciding to Instagram your egg freezing is weird.

She stated:

So I’m aware that just by me choosing to not keep this private, there may be a consequence. But you know what? I’m okay with that. This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life. And if people want to make assumptions about my decision, let them make those assumptions. I feel empowered to make this choice. I think it’s a very privileged position that I’ve been able to make.

We’re going to take the bait because we’re going to explain what the hell she’s doing, which is clearly bait.  This is all girlboss: real girl-bossing is when you inject yourself with hormones on Instagram Live to start a process that will cost tens of thousands of dollars to take control of your own life because biology is unfair and mean. 

And if a man comments, it is because he is sexist in some way. 

Now again, she’s the one who chose to make this public. It’s an obvious trap; this is the game that she is playing: to post, wait for people to comment, and then claim that they’re sexist for commenting.

We all know the game. It’s a really stupid game, but she’s also doing it publicly because she is saying something important about American society. She injected herself with hormones on Instagram Live for egg freezing. People do this privately. Why is she doing this in front of millions of people?

“Don’t be weird about this,” she admonished those watching.

You’re being weird about this. Why are you talking to me? Why am I watching this? This is none of my business. You’re the one live-streaming medical procedures on Instagram. You’re being weird. Are we allowed to say you’re being weird? 

She’s announcing her presidential run. 

She suggested that this is all because of men, you see, because men run for office and people don’t wonder if they want to have children. 

Most men running for higher office already have a family because they’re mostly in their 40s or older and they’ve been married for a while.

Nobody is asking whether a man is going to get pregnant during his campaign because men can’t — despite what the Left thinks — get pregnant.

The most powerful feminist thing she could do, if she really wanted to be totally feminist, is run for president and be pregnant at the same time, because then she could say, “Why are you bothering me just because I’m pregnant?”

When the Left says “right to privacy,” they never mean “Leave us alone. We just want our right to privacy.” They mean “We want you to approve of every decision we make and imitate it in public policy.”

Why isn’t she doing this the natural way? She is not doing this for medical reasons; she is not doing this because she is having fertility issues. This makes a mockery of those who are truly having fertility issues and are pursuing this process for medical reasons. 

This is not a decision to feel “empowered,” unless by empowered you somehow mean that biology itself is an obstacle to “living your fullest life,” which is a leftist idea.

The leftist idea is that biology itself, like normal maturation, is unfair and cruel. This is why they treat puberty as some sort of biological obstacle.

It’s why they are now treating pregnancy as some sort of biological barrier for women to overcome. 

I can’t think of anything more anti-woman than the idea that pregnancy is a biological burden on women and that it is something horrible to be overcome. 

It is a superpower. It is unbelievable. It’s an incredible gift.

Demeaning that so that you can compete in a “man’s world” is terrible.

She is trying to valorize herself for putting off pregnancy indefinitely, expensively, and more dangerously than the natural way. She doesn’t want you asking about whether she’s going to get pregnant while she’s running. Thus, she’s preemptively saying she won’t get pregnant.

She’s making the point that biology is unfair, womanhood is inherently unfair, and that there is no moral issue with fertilizing embryos you will discard.

This is all part and parcel of a broader agenda: Rebelling against reality by assuming that if we just fix reality, Utopia is right there. 

Which brings us to Ocasio-Cortez’s second big presidential announcement. She said Woke 1.0 was so over. It’s no longer “cool” or even “fetch” or anything like that.

The problem for the Left is that Americans ended up rejecting Woke 1.0. That is because Americans don’t believe that the Declaration and Constitution are rooted in racism. 

The reason woke died is because it was taken to the logical extreme, which is that everything was discrimination. 

Now there is a different phase. Think of the faces of Woke 2.0. Who are they?

Zohran Mamdani, Abdullah El-Sayed, and Hasan Piker.  

The leftist Edward Said said that America’s failure is that we are basically a corrupt empire whose capitalism corrupted the earth, and everything that happens everywhere else on earth that’s bad and at home is due to our terrible free market system.

And who better to represent America as a corrupt empire than victims of that corrupt empire? People from outside America who can come back to America and tell us what we do wrong.

Woke 1.0 forced Americans to say, “Am I racist or am I not?” Woke 2.0 is, “Is American capitalism inherently corrupting and bad? Is the West’s system of freedoms and free markets inherently imperialistic, colonialist, genocidal, and racist?”

It’s easier to pitch woke 2.0 than woke 1.0. Why? Americans have been convinced over the course of the last 25 years or so that America is the bad guy, that we and our allies are fundamentally evil, that our foreign policy decisions of the past two decades and maybe longer, going all the way back to World War II, according to some, are actually terrible and horrible, and we’re the bad guys in the world.

Add the economic angst right now, combine those two things, and you get woke 2.0, Ocasio-Cortez’s new program. It is about hatred of America.

Ocasio-Cortez is trying to capitalize on all of this. 

Her idea of Utopia is women freezing eggs and a communist agenda.

It’s more than weird.

It’s a Utopia that we should reject with all the strength we have.