There's a reason they call Washington's most notorious feature "the Swamp." It's not a light-hearted, mildly amusing cognomen, like the tent occupied in Korea by the main characters in the Richard Hooker novel M*A*S*H. It's the name of a black, sticky morass that captures one, pulls them down, and envelopes them in dark ooze.

And these people, mind you, jump into the morass voluntarily — some joyously.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has the habit of weeping before empty parking lots, would appear to be one of those people. Now, a New York Democrat is accusing her of abandoning her Brooklyn/Queens district while her constituents struggle with crime and an influx of illegal immigration.

A Democrat official who helped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez build support before her historic first election win told Fox News Digital that the lawmaker has abandoned and "betrayed" her constituents in a Queens neighborhood that has been riddled with crime under her leadership, including open-air prostitution, robberies and petty crime.

Some constituents have likened conditions along Roosevelt Avenue to those of a Third World country, while others say the migrant women soliciting sex in front of businesses remind them of a red-light district in Bangkok.

The area has garnered national attention for its unsanitary nature where illegal vendors overtake sidewalks selling unregulated food, secondhand clothing and other counterfeit merchandise.

In other words, it's a catastrophic mess, and AOC doesn't seem to be too concerned, as she rarely shows her face except in the election season — if then.

One New York Democrat who helped her win her seat in her first election is calling her out.

Ramon Ramirez Baez, an author and former Democrat committee member for the 39th Assembly District, said the quality of life there has rapidly deteriorated since Ocasio-Cortez sprang an historic upset in 2018, unseating longtime Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley to become the nation’s youngest congresswoman.

He said the then-unknown political novice had been a fresh face on the scene who promised to work hard for the people of Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst and to be an on-the-ground presence for them, unlike career politician Crowley, who at that point was a 10-term incumbent and eyeing to be the next House speaker.

Ocasio-Cortez, Ramirez Baez said, reached out to him for help when she had about $39,000 in the bank, compared to Crowley’s nearly $2 million war chest.

But after her election, the Swamp enfolded AOC in its ominous ooze, and she not only let herself be immersed, she embraced the black, sticky substance and became a creature of the Swamp. And with that, her New York constituents suddenly became less important.

But since Ocasio-Cortez rose to power, Ramirez Baez said she has been missing in action and has acted no differently from Crowley.  

"We never saw that lady, never, she disappeared," he told Fox News Digital. "She [didn’t] do anything for the community, nothing, nothing."

"She disappeared from my community. You never saw Alexandria in my community, nobody saw her in her office. All the time, closed," he said of her Queens office, which was located a block from his own apartment.

Miss Ocasio-Cortez has obviously forgotten that old caution that one must "dance with the one that brung ya."

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This is the danger of an overbearing federal government. The people's elected representatives win elections, go to Washington, and get sucked down; next thing you know, they are getting free tickets to Met galas to party with the incredibly wealthy and "progressive" elite while wearing expensive designer gowns with "Tax the Rich" splashed across the fundament.

Miss Ocasio-Cortez would profit from a good, hard look at her situation. She took down Joe Crowley because he was staid, comfortable, and complacent, and credit where credit is due, AOC burned up a fair amount of shoe leather campaigning against him in the primary. In this district, winning the primary is tantamount to winning the election.

But now Miss Ocasio-Cortez appears to be pretty complacent herself. It's doubtful she will be taken out by a GOP challenger, as NY-14 would elect a flat rock to the House if someone painted a "D" on it. But her very complacency and her ignoring her district may make her ripe for a primary challenge. She should keep an eye on the rear-view mirror, because she may become the target of some young Democrat seeking to do unto her as she did unto Joe Crowley.