<p>On Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained that American soccer moms with two vans, were, like, <em>so over</em>.</p>
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<p>This comment came in the context of falsely explaining that the American upper middle class &#8212; the fastest growing class in America, in reality &#8212; had disappeared (presumably in a chemical fire or something). She stated:</p>
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<p>What I honestly think that it is is that we have not had a party that has been investing in its own future. So we have people who are constantly fundraising for their own re-election. The average age of a House Democrat right now is 65 years old. &#8230; Their heyday was in the 1990s when you know, like, kids had like, furbies, and like, parents, you had like soccer moms had, like, two vans, and like &#8230; that&#8217;s not America anymore.</p>
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<p>This sort of dismissive language with regard to soccer moms is vaguely reminiscent of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s statements that she could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas back in 1992.</p>
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<p>But that&#8217;s the future of the Democratic Party: a party that sees such things as hackneyed and lost in the mists of time. In reality, of course, soccer moms aren&#8217;t driving minivans &#8212; they&#8217;re driving SUVs. And their numbers are <em><a href="http://adage.com/article/american-demographics/soccer-mom-dead/42092/">increasing</a></em>:</p>
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<p>According to the Census, 10.6 million children under 15 in two-parent homes were being raised by stay-at-home moms, a 13 percent increase from the previous decade.</p>
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<p>But the Democratic Party has decided to build its base around women like Ocasio-Cortez rather than soccer moms. They could find out the hard way just how unproductive that line of politics is likely to be.</p></p>


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