AOC Drops History-Altering Bombshell: "Black Americans Created Democracy From Nothing," Podcast Host Enthusiastically Agrees Before Realizing He Still Has to Pay Taxes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a lot of things, but she is definitely no Victor Davis Hanson when it comes to American history, or much else, for that matter.

In a revelation that has left ancient Greeks, Enlightenment philosophers, and every Founding Father collectively facepalming from beyond the grave, America's foremost revisionist historian and occasional bartender, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), dropped a bombshell on the country the other day.

She informed us all that it was black Americans who created democracy: "I think about the Civil Rights and voting rights movement, and how black Americans really created democracy in this country . . . black Americans created democracy. They built something from nothing."

I had no idea. I was under the naive impression that it was the ancient Greeks and our Founding Fathers who conjured such a thing, but clearly I was the last to know. Even the podcast host she was enlightening nodded along in vigorous agreement: “Yes, YES.” Where have I been all these years? Probably busy not rewriting history to own the libs.

There you have it, folks. The 1619 Project rides again like a participation trophy on steroids. History has been rewritten, you’ve been lied to your entire life, and James Madison was apparently mixed. Unless, of course, AOC hit her head falling out of a coconut tree and is simply, resoundingly, and spectacularly wrong.

Democracy literally comes from the ancient Greek word dēmokratia: “rule by the people,” from dēmos meaning “the people” or “citizen-body,” and kratos for “power” or “rule.” By the people, for the people. Sound familiar? It describes a system in which citizens hold the power to make decisions, either directly or through their elected representatives.

In 508-507 BC, the true “Father of Democracy,” Cleisthenes, a suspiciously non-diverse Greek aristocrat, shifted power away from hereditary elites and toward the demos. He reorganized citizens into tribes based on residence rather than bloodline, introduced equality under the law, and reformed governance through popular voting.

Long after his death, the historian Thucydides praised the system: “Its administration favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy.”

Credit for the creation of democracy goes to white, ancient Greek aristocrats wearing bedsheets. My apologies, Congresswoman. Next you'll tell us Socrates invented the filibuster.

If AOC means American democracy specifically, she’s no less mistaken. American democracy wasn’t “built from nothing” by any single group or era. It was deliberately engineered as a constitutional republic with robust democratic features during the late 18th century by a bunch of powdered-wigged guys who definitely didn't look like they just invented hip-hop. Drawing on ancient Athens and Rome, English common law, and Enlightenment thinkers including John Locke, Montesquieu, and Blackstone, our Founders designed a republic specifically intended to avoid the pitfalls of pure direct democracy. As Madison argued in Federalist No. 10, this often resulted in mob rule and instability—like, say, Twitter in 2021.

In its place, they built representative government, separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism, all to protect individual liberty. The Miracle at Philadelphia wasn't exactly a community organizing session.

Just as it would be inaccurate to say women alone created American democracy, it is equally inaccurate to say black Americans did because it is simply not true. Unless Washington and the Founders were applying considerably more face powder than the portraits suggest. Spoiler: They weren't.

I was reminded of all this just last night at an Independent Women’s event, where extraordinary women gathered to celebrate and defend exactly this history instead of turning it into a corporate DEI seminar. That’s the spirit we need more of: women, Americans of all backgrounds, who know what this country is built on and aren’t afraid to say so. We should be teaching this, not erasing it like a bad tweet.

To be uncharacteristically charitable to AOC, one could argue that she means that black Americans, through the crucible of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, helped make the promise of democracy real rather than merely rhetorical. Indeed, black Americans’ contributions to expanding rights were immense and undeniable, but “expanding and perfecting democracy” is a very different claim from “creating it from nothing,” and conflating the two isn’t empowerment, it’s historical erasure with a side of coconut.

Meanwhile, that very democracy she claims was created by black Americans is being thwarted by her and her fellow Democrats in Washington, D.C., who treat the Constitution like an annoying Terms of Service agreement they keep clicking "Ignore." Barack Obama wants to strip away the voting rights of Republicans of all color, and they’ve promised that when they regain power, they will pack the Supreme Court, enable mass mail-in-ballots, throw away voter ID, and nuke the filibuster to add four more blue senate seats. Very "created democracy" behavior.These are not the actions of people who revere democratic institutions. They’re the actions of people who revere power—and really good campaign donors.

The danger of letting the Left rewrite history and promote fallacious ideas is not abstract. When young people and useful idiots are taught a distorted version of the past by a backward education system and p(regressive) leadership, they have no framework to defend what is true. That's the whole point. Gutting civics and history education was not an accident; it was a strategy, like replacing math with "equity."

Our Founders studied history with rigor, absorbed its lessons, and built something incredible and new: a durable, liberty-focused republic that has endured for nearly 250 years. Its genius lay not in perfection but in self-correction through elections, courts, and amendments, not reinvention via executive order and vibes.

Don’t fall for the lies: communism has failed everywhere it has been tried, Capitalism harnesses human self-interest to drive innovation, growth, and prosperity like no other, and our constitutional republic is a miraculous achievement, conceived by a very pale founding bunch and hardened over generations by Americans of different color and circumstance, bound under one creed.

That’s not an uncomfortable fact; that’s a beautiful one, and as we approach our 250th birthday, it is one worth defending clearly and without apology, or a trigger warning.

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The 'Palestinian Flag' is more or less a rag

The so called Palestinian flag, like the Palestinians, is an invention. In the case of the flag it was invented by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in the 1960s. Its purpose is to be a weapon against Israel. [H/T Front Page Magazine, Robert Spencer.]

Before it became the flag of Palestine, it served as the emblem for the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz, founded in 1916 and later incorporated into Saudi Arabia by 1925. In 1924, this flag also represented the Sharifian Caliphate, which encompassed similar regions in what is now Western Saudi Arabia, persisting until 1931.

The Hejaz is in Arabia — not “Palestine.” The designer of the flag was not a Palestinian, as there were no Palestinians as such in those days, but an English Colonel named Mark Sykes.

The flag we call the Palestinian flag today wasn't really the flag of Palestine back in the day. Around 134 CE, the Romans kicked out the Jews from their land and started calling it Palestine. They chose this name because it was the name of an old group of people called the Philistines, who were enemies of the Israelites in the Bible and were no longer around. But when the Romans said Palestine, they were just talking about an area, not a country with its own people or flag.

We don't find evidence of this group or their flag in historical records. There was never a sovereign Palestinian state, and the Arabs living in the region did not use this flag. A 1939 world atlas does display a flag for Palestine, but it refers to the area under British Mandate. The British administered this territory not as a typical colony, but specifically to establish a national home for Jews in their ancestral land. This fact challenges the narratives often pushed by today's historical revisionists. Notably, the 1939 flag of Mandatory Palestine prominently features a Star of David.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially adopted the current Palestinian flag in 1964, the same year it renamed itself from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement to the Palestinian Liberation Organization. This change was made to reflect its commitment to liberating a newly defined Palestinian nationality. Prior to the 1960s, the concept of a distinct Palestinian nationality did not exist; it was created to reframe what was previously known as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Before this shift, Israel was seen as a small, beleaguered state surrounded by a vast Arab world. However, with the emergence of the Palestinian identity, the narrative flipped, portraying Palestinians as the small, oppressed group against a dominant Israel.

In summary, the Palestine flag is as fake as the notion that Hamas are freedom fighters.

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Ontario to have Islamic Party to run in next election

The Islamic Party of Ontario is a new political party that sounds like it's more religious than political, just like political Islam itself. Well, they have formed up and now plan to run a candidate in the next Provincial election.

The party has the audacity to claim that Islam is Canada's native religion, which is pure bull crap, but leftists and Islamists tend to say the opposite of the truth and many people, particularly those with the least amount of factual information tend to believe it.

Among the party’s principles and policies and once you read it in full, you will realize their goal is to make Canada a sharia-compliant country:

Islam is the only and oldest DEEN of GOD brought and started by Adam (p.b.u.h.), the first man and the first messenger of God, created by God without mother and father. It is the same DEEN brought by Jesus (p.b.u.h.) before Muhammadﷺ who born without father. It is a misconception that Islam is a “religion” created by Muhammad ﷺ. Islam is the only way to attain peace and justice and provides laws without any prejudice….We understand and believe that Islam is the native DEEN of Ontario and Canada

Canada? Next it will be the United States of America. No, Islam is not the native DEEN [religion] of Ontario and Canada. The Church of England and the Catholic Church of France as well as the beliefs of the Aboriginal are native to Canada. So while Islam stole the Kosher laws from the Jews and called them halal, along with other Judaic traditions such as circumcision and claiming it as theirs first, Muslims are now trying to steal a land to which they claim to have native status.

That's a load of bull, just like Islamic claims to Israel.

The history of Canada is not widely known but we do know it covers the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Before the Europeans came, the land in what is known as present-day Canada was inhabited for millennia by Indigenous peoples with distinct spiritual beliefs, trade networks and social organizations, none of which at all resembles Islam.

Beginning in the late 15th century, the French and British came to Canada. They explored, colonized and did battle over various areas within North America. In 1534 the colony known as New France was established but in 1763, after the Seven Years' War, it was ceded to the British.

Still no Muslim got his hands dirty over any of this.

The current British Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada in 1791 and reunified in 1841. In 1867, the Province of Canada was joined with the British colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, forming a self-governing entity called Canada. This expanded by incorporating British North America, ending with Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949.

While responsible somewhat independent government existed in Canada since 1948, the English continued to set its foreign and defense policies for the country until the end of World War One.

In 1931 with the passing of the Statute of Westminster, Canada was finally recognized as co-equal with the United Kingdom. In 1982, once the Constitution was patriated, the final bonds of legal dependence on the British was cut.

Today, Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories. It is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, and is a parliamentary democracy.

And while the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is a strong advocate of multiculturalism, Islam is still not native to the land and the phenomena of Islamic supremacy has no respect for diversity, especially from the infidel. But the critics are silent, often out of fear from the danger of being labeled a blasphemer, thus in danger suffering the punishment [death] from such criticism.

Now it's clear that the Islamization of Western societies is advancing. In Canada, it’s progressing very fast, especially following the passage of anti-Islamophobia Motion M03 by Parliament. The United States is slower to remove our speech laws, but the left, particularly young idiots, want to remove our/their rights of free speech.

Social media and email correspondence is going full-blast with the revelation that the Islamic Party of Ontario plans to run in the next Ontario provincial election.

Who is to at fault? Is it the Islamic supremacists who, for years, have spoken openly about their global agenda? Or is it their Leftist water carriers and other enablers who have aided them by chipping away at the cornerstones of democracy, primarily the freedom of speech? And will it be coming to a neighborhood near you anytime soon? It looks bad for us too.

Proponents of Islam utilize the victimology subterfuge while the willfully blind help them do so in the name of tolerance, multiculturalism and diversity. [Ironically, sharia respects none of those.] These enablers are generally employed in the “anti-racism” industry, like anti-Semitic, anti-white leaders of the Women's March that pretends to be for all women.

To better understand the nature of what is going on in Ontario, Canada, and the Islamic Party of Ontario, an article in the American Center for Democracy & Economic Warfare Institute covers the topic quite well. Below is a small excerpt:

Leftist hypocrites are forceful opponents of “hate,” yet the “anti-hate” industry is dominated by the worst purveyors of selective hate and propaganda. The “anti-hate” peddlers benefit from their status as leaders in a sphere that thrives on maintaining and manipulating victimhood for the benefit of certain individuals and groups. While they fan the flames of the worst kind of bigotry — the bigotry of low expectations of visible minorities — they care very little, if at all, about the intolerance and bigotry that define normative Islam. Their careers are defined by their lambasting of white people against essentially everyone else (visible minorities), and assume and insist that white privilege is to blame for the world’s woes. Never mind 1400 years of jihad. So Islamic anti-semitism, Islamic bigotry against gays and blacks, Sharia supremacy of men over women, and even the color prejudice that exists within Islam (and also other visible minority groups) are ignored as a matter of course by these self-styled “anti-racism” crusaders.

Sharia does not tolerate individuality. Sharia does not tolerate free speech. It gives unequal justice to women and robs them of their rights while pretending they are special.

If sharia is coming to Canada, we better build some kind of wall to stop its spread.

Well here we are in the start of a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe. 

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GWU removes history in its history curriculum

George Washington University is probably going to change its name in the future because they seem to want a divorce from American history. And they may not know it, but a guy named George Washington was an integral part of American history.

The sages of GWU has changed its course requirements for history majors--they no longer offer U.S. history. So students may have to learn about their school's namesake in grade school.

The "university's" history department introduced new requirements with the aim of "giving students greater flexibility" to pursue their interests such as "Climate Change for a Changing World," "Peruvian Forest Basket Weaving," and "Positive Things to Claim About Hamas." 

Requirements were also eliminated in North American and European history along with foreign language.

The school paper GW Hatchet said the changes were motivated partly to attract students to the history department, since it has sucked since 2011 in getting student enrollment.

Katrin Schultheiss, the history department chair, basically said that the school will do cartwheels to get more students to enroll in history, and the best way to do that is to not offer too much history to them. "Whatever they want to do, there's a way to make the history department work for them."


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