By Jon Sutz
May 26, 2026
Contents
(1) Introduction, and summary of how decisively AOC and her comrades are winning the information war
(2) Chronology of AOC lies about, and incitement against billionaires, and America’s free-enterprise system
(1) Introduction, and summary of how decisively AOC and her comrades are winning the information war
Due to the dysfunction, cowardice, complicity and corruption of the top US MSM “news” organs, AOC has been allowed spread insanely vicious lies and conspiracy theories about America’s free enterprise system, and the most successful people among us. AOC and her comrades are so decisively winning on every information battlefield that:
- 53% of 18-39 year-old Americans want a democratic socialist to win the presidency in 2028
- 76% of 18-39 year-old Americans support nationalizing major industries, including health care, energy, and big tech
- 60% of Americans believe some variant of the lie that billionaires “pay a lower tax rate than average wage earners,” or, “don’t pay their fair share of taxes”
- 67% of American college students have a “positive” or “neutral” view of socialism
- 34% of Americans have a favorable view of communism
- She is a leading 2028 presidential contender, particularly among younger voters (but she says she aspires to a higher position)
- She is one of the Democrats’ top fundraisers
Thanks to the lack of substantive push-back on AOC’s and her comrades’ lies, they’ve become “truths.” And as of this date, I see absolutely no substantive, evidence-based effort to begin demolishing these lies — least of all in a way that is understandable and persuasive to Main St. USA.
If America implodes as a result of leftists’ lies, it will not be due to the efficacy of their messaging; rather, it will happen as a result of those who know the truth, and who have the resources to fund and lead a total information warfare campaign, but who failed to initiate or get behind such efforts.
(2) Chronology of AOC lies about, and incitement against billionaires, and America’s free-enterprise system
“You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that.”
The most influential MSM “news” organs publicize her claims, uncritically, and often inserted statistics that amplify her message about “wealth inequality” in America (example).
Most of these MSM organs publish zero substantive criticisms of her, however – which is curious, given their now-routine debunkings of President Trump’s false statements.
May 8, 2026 (analysis here):
“I want to talk about how this is in the heritage of our country, because America was founded … you look at Thomas Jefferson writing to Madison in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. And we are declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power and the state that the voices of everyday people did not exist.”
“To working people, ‘earn’ means something: the calluses on your hands, the aches of your joints, the way that we earn ourselves through school. I think that we are in an ’emperor with no clothes’ moment when it comes to the American economy and our democracy.”…“They want us to get into this quibbling of the morality of any individual person instead of the immorality of the fact that there (is) virtually no place in America where you can afford an apartment on a full-time job on minimum wage.”
“The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual – it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.”