During a 'Fight Oligarchy' event in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke about the role of 'big money' in politics.
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00:00This is what oligarchy feels like, and it only will get worse until we act.
00:07It is this system that relies on division to legislate greed that has brought us the most corrupt administration in American history and the Republican majorities to support it.
00:20Big money is how we got Donald Trump.
00:25And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them.
00:44The removal of duly elected officials, on inauguration day, Donald Trump removed duly elected officials from the chamber in order to make space for who is really in charge, who were the billionaires who sat behind him.
01:03They have one central economic mission, to make billionaires richer at the expense of the United States of America.
01:12And it does not surprise us that their first economic mission has been to target Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, to fire our federal workers and fleece and abandon our veterans so that they can hand that money off to the billionaires who are backing them.
01:31But this isn't just about the Republican attacks on working people, L.A.
01:38We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us, too.
01:44And that means our communities, all of us coming together, choosing and voting for Democrats and elected officials who know how to stand for the working class.
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