Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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It's about who can break the law.
It's about, yeah, those, like, ICE, they don't need the judicial warrant.
How visible can you make this and get away with it?
You can do the illegal things.
And by the way, they're not just, we know they're not going after immigrants.
Now, they're all putting on, it's not a coincidence, they're all putting on meta glasses.
And they're putting tons of money into Palantir contracts to create a national surveillance state so that if you go out and you want to protest, that they want to scan your face and put it in a system.
This is about a compulsion.
This is about also like, this is a system and there's a psychology of the people pulling the levers of this system.
And so that's like, okay, you know, doom, gloom,
scary, this is bad.
Okay, that's the dark part of the American story.
But America is not complete without the triumph of our story.
That's the dark side of things.
But there is also us.
And I'm so glad that you said that because in this moment, people are often like, what's being done?
And I'm, listen, leadership of the Democratic Party is a whole different