Whether you’ve been bad or good IYKYK: The South lost the Civil War but won Reconstruction, neutered the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments across the South, and maintained a rigid system of Jim Crow oppression for the next 100 years. IYKYK: Each July 4th, we celebrate America’s war to overthrow rule by hereditary royalty and landed gentry and to create on these shores democratic self-rule … plus a little slavery to appease the South’s economic royalty. Like the Civil War, the American Revolution now seems to have failed. Is there any doubt? Former bartender, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, doesn’t think so. Her Instagram followers asked about American oligarchy, and one oligarch in particular from the South (Africa). AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” @aoc Answering questions over on Instagram tonight – @aoc ♬ original sound – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC: “Republicans don’t know who their Daddy is.” @aoc Answering questions over on instagram tonight – @aoc ♬ original sound – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Democrats might have had AOC as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee next year. What happened there? “What we are looking at here is oligarchy” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders could teach a master class in class politics. He sees it too. Sanders: “My friends, what we are looking at here has nothing to do with democracy. What we are looking at here is oligarchy. This is up and up government by the billionaire class,…