>>Do we really have enough people like them - on either side of the issues?
>>I don't think so, so let's listen to what they say.

You can listen, but you don't have to listen quietly. In AOC's case, she advocates policies that sound like a chapter in an Ayn Rand novel. I'm reminded of Rand's engineer on whom the whole village relied, wanting his academically gifted daughter to attend university. This was declined by the village council as they felt she was already privileged and there were more deserving underprivileged candidates. After the engineer left, things broke down and nobody could fix them so the village regressed. This is a time honoured formula and any politics that doesn't incentivize reward matched to contribution, is antisocial and self-defeating imho.

I'd also observe that it seems crazy to favor illegal immigrants when there are millions of unemployed citizens. This seems to be a vital and viciously defended plank of the US Left... risk is that eventually young marginalized armed citizens will equate rich fat cats who offshored all the blue collar jobs. to those who now want to employ illegals willing to work for cheap rates. Excluded from the social compact, they will convince themselves that it's patriotic to create a new social compact that values their attributes better. So AOC may yet provoke her revolution, just not the one she envisaged.