Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

the triumphs of the best of us over the worst of what we've seen, I think is also a very big part of who we are.

And so when it comes to eyes, I think it's where both of these elements meet because

In an era of extreme income inequality, I don't think it's a coincidence that this xenophobia and anti-immigrant feeling is happening at the same time as record levels of income inequality.

I also feel this way about Jim Crow and racism and all of this stuff, which is that when there is

so much economic insecurity.

I don't want to say it's a driver, right?

I want to be very clear about that.

But I want to say that in the mix of deep racism and all of this, in the mix of that, when you feel like you could be next, when you feel like you are one accident away from losing your house and losing everything,

you kind of, there is the lesser impulse of us is to subjugate or to feel like there is another class of people that is below you.

That I'm not bad, right?

Our systems...

require us, capitalism and what have you, our society requires us to internalize the failures of our systems, to your point, right?

It's not the school that failed the kids.

It's that you're the dropout.

It's not that Walmart pays less than a living wage.

It's that I'm poor and I didn't work hard enough so I didn't earn a better station in my life.

That's right.

And so what happens is like when you have these systems, when you have corporations, when you have an economic elite, they have not... There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right?

You can't earn...

A billion dollars.