AOC’s Dress Wasn’t About Hypocrisy, It Was About The Social Hierarchy – The Federalist

Some on the right saw a golden opportunity for A-Class mockery when Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up to this years annual Met Gala wearing a ridiculous white dress that said tax the rich on its backside.

There is nothing to laugh at or make fun of here. This is simply another example of those in power, those running our most influential cultural and political institutions, sending a message: Theres a new social hierarchy in America. And this one isnt about what you can afford to do, its about what youre allowed to do.

The more important image from the dress saga isnt the one now meme-ified a million times over, wherein mini Jenny from the Block is seen posing alone, looking back over her shoulder so the text can be seen by the camera. Its the one Ocasio-Cortez posted on Twitter, apparently being fitted for the dress. The congresswoman is not wearing a face covering. But the woman who helped her into the gown is.

Thats the way this works now. The misery of social distancing and mask-wearing during the pandemic, both pushed by Democrats and the experts, are for you, the help, to endure. Not the rich and famous. Not the ones who establish and insist on those rules.

Recall that just a few days ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the medias favorite sex symbol, lectured Americans about gathering outdoors the safest place possible at sporting events. I dont think its smart, he said on CNN, before dropping that timeless wisdom about strapping masks to your face, even when having gone through the trouble of being vaccinated against COVID-19.

Interesting. That was in August, which was the same month that former President Barack Obama, weeks earlier, was seen on video getting amp at an indoor birthday party with hundreds of guests and service staff in Marthas Vineyard. Fauci wasnt invited on national television to weigh in on that one. Or if he was, he declined.

Dukes County, where Marthas Vineyard is located, had been on an upward trend of new coronavirus infections since early July, just like almost everywhere else. Why should that particular place be the exception to host a massive indoor bash without masks? Guests at the Obama party were supposedly required to have been vaccinated, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began advising face coverings for even the vaccinated when indoors back in late July.

And New York Times reporter Annie Karni was sure to do her part reinforcing our new social order by explaining on CNN that the Obama party attendees were a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd.

Its not enough that you did what you were told was the right thing and got vaccinated. You now have to be sophisticated to enjoy large gatherings. And by sophisticated, they certainly dont mean you.

Its been happening over and over. It was also in August that Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib was seen in a video on social media, dancing at an indoor wedding in Dearborn, Michigan. She wore no mask, even though cases in Wayne County, where Dearborn is located, were climbing at a quick clip at that time.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is another one seen in recent weeks at yet another indoor wedding, beaming for photos with no mask on her face. That event was in New Mexico, where the governor had put in place a universal indoor mask mandate.

It started off looking like obscene hypocrisy: Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shutting down salons and then getting a handsome haircut. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting a closed stylist in San Francisco, against government orders, for a maskless primping. Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio overseeing the closure of gyms before heading to a fitness center for a quick pump. Democrat D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reinstating an indoor mask mandate before attending an indoor wedding reception without a face cover.

When its so frequent and with no penalty, its no longer a matter of hypocrisy. Its just the way these people think the order is supposed to be.

And its not just masks. Recall Democrat Missouri Rep. Cori Bush calling to defund the police and then retaining her own private security. Thats the way she truly believes it should be.

The tax the rich dress wasnt a display of hypocrisy. It was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reinforcing the new hierarchy.

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