Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says there's a 'very real risk' the U.S. will no longer be a democracy in 10 years, warning of a 'return to Jim Crow.'
"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?"
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