re: #117 Belafon

“America’s first political theorists took these truths to be self-evident:

that a person could not exercise political liberty if he did not possess a modicum of economic autonomy,

and that disparities in wealth inevitably produced disparities of political power.”

.@AOC thinks concentrated wealth is incompatible with democracy. So did our founders. @EricLevitz writes https://t.co/otsTe1Yr6N

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) January 25, 2019

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 26, 2019

Every day, AOC is showing that she “gets it” much more than almost every one of her now-peers, even those from her own party; poor people can’t exactly freely exercise their franchise if they’re more concerned with staying alive and the morally repugnant wing of the filthy rich take full advantage of that, giving us what we have now.