At a "Fight Oligarchy Tour' event in Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke about choosing between 'oligarchy or democracy.'
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00:00And this has been the big money playbook not just now, not just today, but it has been for decades.
00:09And that is why Donald Trump is not in aberration.
00:16He is the logical, inevitable conclusion of an American political system dominated by corporate and dark money.
00:25And if we are to defeat him, Utah, we must defeat the system that created him.
00:38We are at a crossroads in America.
00:41We can either have extreme and growing wealth inequality with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive,
00:51or we can have a fair economy for working people along with the democracy and freedoms that uphold it.
01:04Oligarchy or democracy, but we cannot have both.