WASHINGTON, D.C. — The national movement to require everyone to convert their forms of identification continued to receive pushback as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she was unable to obtain a Real ID because she died on Jan 6 and is now a ghost.
The New York representative told reporters that she failed to meet the requirements to get a Real ID due to her status as a spectral being in the wake of her tragic death during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, which now rendered her unable to board airplanes or access federal facilities.
"This is discriminatory against the undead," Ocasio-Cortez said. "It's not fair that only ‘living people' are eligible to obtain these Real IDs, while people like me and millions of other Democratic voters are barred from getting them due to the simple fact that we're dead. Prejudice is alive and well in America, even though I am not."
The rumored presidential hopeful said the ordeal only served to remind her of the harrowing death she endured on the day democracy itself came under attack. "It just brings back all the scary memories," she explained. "I can still hear the screams of my colleagues. Not the ones at the Capitol, since I wasn't actually there, but the people at the other office building where I was. I died that day defending democracy. The least I should get in return is a Real ID for my ghostly apparition."
At publishing time, congressional Democrats had introduced legislation to issue Real IDs to all registered Democrats, living or dead.
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