Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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1,664 appearances
69 recordings
22 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
You just can't earn that.
That's exactly correct.
You can get market power.
You can break rules.
You can do all sorts of things.
You can abuse labor laws.
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