"I think we will look like ourselves," she said in response to a question about which nation the U.S. will mirror in her prediction. "I think we will return to Jim Crow."
"You have it already happening" in Texas and Florida with disenfranchisement laws, she said. "You have the complete erasure and attack on our own understanding of history, to replace teaching history with institutionalized propaganda from white-nationalist perspectives in our schools. This is what the scaffolding of Jim Crow was."
"And the question that we’re really facing is: Was the last fifty to sixty years after the Civil Rights Act just a mere flirtation that the United States had with a multiracial democracy that we will then decide was inconvenient for those in power? And we will revert to what we had before, which, by the way, wasn’t just Jim Crow but also the extraordinary economic oppression as well?"
The US isn't a democracy, and never has been. A Constitutional republic is not the same thing. In a democracy, the democratic process is the final word in governance. In the US, the Constitution is the final word. That's why judicial review takes place *after* the vote.
It’s very clear to everyone-GOP “Make America Great Again-Jim Crow 2.0” is in action. Trump proclaimed it, GOP SCOTUS picks enforces it.
Handmaids tale.
FEAR PORN!!!
Aoc,Needs to Stay in the BRONX
Well AOC is clairvoyant and also said the world will end in 12 years and that was 2 years ago so, in 10 years the end will end in Jim Crow…I guess it doesn’t matter then. Like Obama, Pelosi, Gates, I too bought a house in Florida near water. I want to be first to go
AOC has suggested a similar timeline for the end of the world due to climate change. Therefore they cancel each other. So which is it or is she becoming the modern day Henny Penny?
Sad and scary
She continues to be nothing but a gigantic gift to the Trump GOP
Compared to the possibility of a full blown fascist dictatorship, Jim Crow seems Er, not quite at that level…
It will be Jim Crow on Christian steroids.
AOC is right as always. We need to votebluenomatterwho to stop the GQP insurrectionists who want to usher in the Handmaids Tale. BlueAnon
Let’s make that 10 months!
We haven’t been a democracy since Citizen’s United opened the floodgates of bribery money into 🇺🇸 politics. The white greedy want total power and control.
There is a bigger threat to democracy from ignorant socialists that don't have the capacity to understand their own policies.
🤦♂️. Sometimes this girl needs to just shut the fuck up and do her job. This country isn’t going back to “Jim Crow”. The extreme hyperbole these politicians are using is really not helpful. And she’s not the only one.
The existence of the senate and the electoral college make it already not a democracy.
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