July 3, 2022
AOC’s most ludicrous protest yet
By Rajan Laad
A few days ago, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, of New York informed her 8.6 million followers on Instagram that she was resorting to a new kind of “resistance” in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
The idea of civil disobedience and resistance was introduced to modern Western political theory by David Thoreau over 173 years ago. Since then, civil disobedience has been used as a mechanism to express dissent against governments in a democracy.
So, what was AOC’s contribution to this civil disobedience movement going to be?
Was she going to lead marches across the nation to protest the overturning of Roe V. Wade?
Was she going to lead a strike that would cause a government shut down until the ruling that overturned Roe V. Wade was reversed?
Perhaps she would resort to an indefinite hunger strike until the ruling that overturned Roe V. Wade was nullified?
As Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said, "No! No! No!"
AOC was instead going to “redo her nails.” You read that right: “redo her nails” to display her commitment to the resistance.
The founding fathers of civil disobedience such as Mahatma Gandhi, MLK, and Nelson Mandela must feel like absolute dunces for not envisaging such novel means of resistance during their times.
AOC began her Instagram session by wishing followers a happy Friday, adding that “joy too can be an act of resistance.”
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/aocs_most_ludicrous_protest_yet.html
