Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think about the civil rights and voting rights movement and how black Americans really created democracy in this country.

That's exactly right.

How they literally made something from nothing.

It is just beyond me.

I think about how like native people have survived

and preserved and treasured their culture.

I think about, and I think many of us think about immigrants, which if you aren't from one of those first two populations, you are certainly from largely the third.

And so many of us like have our story of

our parents, our grandparents, our great-great-grandparents, and so on and so forth, and who, like, come and make something from nothing.

And I think that's a big part of also the most inspiring elements of what America is all about.

You can make something from nothing.

You can lose everything, and you can make it again, and, like...

I'm trying to remember, I saw this TikTok the other day and it's like, if you ran it up once, you can run it up again.

If you ran it up once, you can run it up again.

And I think about that.

And like, so it's- Yeah, that's America.

It is proof of concept.

I have always felt that America has always been a place of two stories.

Yes.

It has always been a place where we've seen the worst of humanity and the best of humanity and witnessing –