It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZFor me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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