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A Thanksgiving Lesson |
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© Jack Cashill Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York knows at least that there is such a thing as Thanksgiving. On Tuesday, America’s youngest member of Congress proved as much by tweeting, "Team Ocasio spent this morning with @FeedingNYC having fun & packing over 6,000 Thanksgiving meals for families in ALL 5 boroughs!" Along with the message Ocasio-Cortez included a video of herself dancing to the Sugarhill Gang's version of "Jump on It!" If Ms. Ocasio-Cortez says nothing more about Thanksgiving before the weekend is out, that will be cause for a minor bit of thanksgiving in and of itself. If, however, she is listening to her progressive friends in the media, the congresswoman-to-be may not resist the urge to put some racist, xenophobic Trump-loving relative in his or her place. Thanksgiving, after all, is ripe with opportunities for a young progressive to denounce colonialism, genocide, and the ecological holocaust our Pilgrim forebears allegedly brought forth upon this continent. Real headlines such as “You’re Morally Obligated to Call Out Your Racist Relatives at Thanksgiving” suggest that more than a few Thanksgiving meals will devolve along these lines. https://bit.ly/2OU11r1 To avoid an intra-family donnybrook, it might be safer and certainly more educational to discuss economics rather than race. And while it is true that the local Indians helped the Pilgrims through their first year, it is equally true that the Pilgrims helped the Indians thereafter. The Pilgrims were able to help their native friends, much as Ocasio-Cortez is now able to help the less fortunate, because they learned a critical economic lesson in their first few years in Plymouth. That lesson, phrased in a vernacular Ocasio-Cortez understands, is this: socialism sucks. I will let Plymouth Governor William Bradford tell the rest of the story.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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