It’s been 250 years since calls for “no taxation without representation” led to the Declaration of Independence, which started the fight and founding of the United States. The people living in the center of the celebration of this feat tell a different story: The call for democracy is incomplete.
“We cannot call ourselves a democracy while hundreds of thousands of people are living on U.S. soil without the full rights of other citizens,” said Aparna Raj, the Democratic Socialist who recently won Washington D.C.’s Democratic primary election for Ward 1 and has lived in the city for 11… Read More in Real Clear Politics