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Economist [[F.A. Hayek]] explained the rise of figures such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a chapter of the ''[[The Road to Serfdom]]'':

{{quotebox|If a numerous group is needed, strong enough to impose their views on the values of life on all the rest, it will never be those with highly differentiated and developed tastes it will be those who form the "mass" in the derogatory sense of the term, the least original and independent, who will be able to put the weight of their numbers behind their particular ideals.<br>... he[/she] will be able to obtain the support of all the docile and gullible, who have no strong convictions of their own but are prepared to accept a ready-made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently loudly and frequently. It will be those whose vague and imperfectly formed ideas are easily swayed and whose passions and emotions are readily aroused who will thus swell the ranks of the [[single party control|totalitarian party]].<br>It is in connection with the deliberate effort of the skillful [[demagogue]] to weld together a closely coherent and homogeneous body of supporters that the third and perhaps most important negative element of selection enters. It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative programme, on the hatred of an enemy, on the [[envy]] of those better off, than on any positive task. The contrast between the "we" and the "they", the common fight against those outside the group, seems to be an essential ingredient in any creed which will solidly knit together a group for common action. It is consequently always employed by those who seek, not merely support of a policy, but the unreserved allegiance of huge masses. From their point of view it has the great advantage of leaving them greater freedom of action than almost any positive programme. The enemy, whether he be internal like the "[[Jew]]" or the "[[Kulak]]", or external, seems to be an indispensable requisite in the armoury of a totalitarian leader.<br>That in Germany it was the Jew who became the enemy till his place was taken by the "[[Plutocracy|plutocracies]]" was no less a result of the anti-capitalist resentment on which the whole movement was based than the selection of the Kulak in [[Russia]]. In [[Germany]] and [[Austria]] the Jew had come to be regarded as the representative of [[capitalism]] because a traditional dislike of large classes of the population for commercial pursuits had left these more readily accessible to a group that was practically excluded from the more highly esteemed occupations.<ref>https://fee.org/resources/the-road-to-serfdom-chapter-10-why-the-worst-get-on-top/</ref>}}

{{quotebox|leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance—of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom—and still succeed.}}

Like many other leftwing cultists who glorify the accomplishments of New Dealers in the 1940s, few realize the boys who [[Normandy Invasion|stormed the beaches at Normandy]] to defend democracy and defeat fascism were virtually all [[heterosexual]] white men - whom liberals demonize today - as the U.S. Armed Services were segregated by race and blacks denied frontline combat roles until 1947, and [[homosexual]]s were banned until 1993.