Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Singlehandedly Shifting the Overton Window

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67. If only Mrs. Parks had lived up to the legacy of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez

by running against and beating a white man for a safe Congressional seat.

Oh, wait a minute. She couldn't do that because in 1955, there was no Voting Rights Act or Civil Rights Act, no people of color in Congress and, if she was allowed to vote, it was only after she took a literacy test and faced physical threats to cast a ballot.

So, instead, she risked her life by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, getting arrested and dragged off of a city bus and thrown in jail when she had no way of knowing if she would come out alive, sparked a year-long civil disobedience movement that led to the invalidation of segregation on public transportation, spent the rest of her life fighting for civil rights and social justice and was so revered she became the first woman accorded the right to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol, where the President of the United States and leaders of both Houses of Congress paid her tribute and tens of thousands of ordinary Americans stood in lines throughout two days and nights to honor her.

Yes, if only Mrs. Parks had stood for something and run for and won a safe seat in New York City, she too, could be praised as a true trailblazer willing to speak truth to power. But she didn't, so ...