Randi Weingarten
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is to not be mad at people, but to try to reconnect in community with people to say, look, the promise of America should be real.
We should have an ability to thrive.
Healthcare is absolutely essential to that.
Education is essential to that.
So are good jobs.
So what we've tried to do as a labor union is to say, here's the path to the future, but we got to fight for it together.
It can't just be you, Vin.
It can't just be me.
And so my leadership is about trying to model jobs
engaging in community and lifting people up and having the strength, the fortitude to stand up, show up, fight back on things that are American values.
And so it's dignity and democracy, it's affordability and opportunity.
And what we've learned, and I think we've learned this in every movement,
is that you need to be in community with others.
You can't do it alone.
And the autocrat is doing the opposite.
The autocratic playbook, the person who wants to be a rule of one, not a rule of law,
They basically operate through fear, through isolation, and through apathy.
And what we're trying to do is operate through bringing people together over issues of common concern and fighting for it.
And that's what you saw in the election this week.
But you also saw it on No Kings.