Quick Reminder: A Princeton Study Showed America is an Oligarchy

AOC recently reiterated it — nobody is surprised, but how does the US ‘spread democracy’ abroad when it doesn’t exist at home?

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AOC did one of her famous social media rants the other day saying, “When you look at the fact that our elections are bought, that corporations and… powerful corporate lobbies have more say in our legislation than everyday people, we are living in (an) oligarchy that has its democratic moments.” Of course, she’s not wrong nor is that news to many people.

Although, those comments will undoubtedly be painted as ‘class war’ by right-wing loons who’d never use that term when describing fifty years of stagnant wages or an ever-increasing portion of economic gains being vacuumed by an ever-smaller cabal of Bilderberg billionaires, who live in a private-jet-filled wealth bubble so over-the-top extravagant a nineteenth-century tsar would be impressed while almost half of American families with children are struggling to afford food.

That’s not class war, speaking about inequality is.

Representative Cortez is obviously one of the better ones we have in Congress, but ‘the Squad’ and progressive caucus have been monumentally underwhelming. They’re not doing much…