Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And I'm like, yeah, I'd be pissed off at paying taxes too.

I live in New York City.

Sure, we have a high tax rate or a higher tax rate.

But, you know, when it snows out, I get to look out my window and I get to see well-paid sanitation workers clearing that stuff out in a minute.

I get to see public school workers or public school teachers like –

really doing amazing stuff for our kids.

I get to walk out of my house and take the subway, which is publicly funded.

And I say, yeah, this is worth it.

Being in a community and being together and doing this stuff for all of us is worth it.

And I don't want to live in a very individualized and isolated existence.

But I see places that are neglected and

And I'm like, yeah, I totally get the anger.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

I so appreciate it.

Thank you, Lana.

To have the audacity to come to Congress to fund a war that we have not even voted for, not only is it illegal, it is insulting.

And... We have to have a working class centered politics if we are going to succeed and also if we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism, which also... One more time, real quick.

We have to have a working class centered politics...

I think one of the the connections and relationships that is under discussed, particularly in the security space, is the fact that I believe we're seeing an economy across economy around the world, including in the United States, that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives in a sense in authoritarianism, right wing populism and very dangerous domestic internal politics.