This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests. It is about class solidarity. It’s about the thousands of you who stand together and say our lives deserve dignity, and our work deserves respect. It will never be just institutions and officials alone that uphold our democracy. It will always be the people — the masses who refuse to comply with authoritarian regimes — who are the last and strongest defense of our country and our freedoms.
We are at a crossroads: oligarchy or democracy. But we cannot have both.
I’ve made my choice. We must fight the oligarchy that has created this nightmare. And that is why I have never taken money from lobbyists or corporations. And it’s why I never will. But beyond elections, our task is to build community. Block associations, volunteer groups, church organizations, PTA’s, activist organizations — because community is the most powerful building block we have to defeat authoritarianism and root out corruption.
This is the path to guaranteeing healthcare to every American, to establish a living minimum wage, to take on skyrocketing rents and mortgages, to tackle the climate crisis, and establish a country where the American Dream is actually possible for us. Because we know that a better world is possible. And we are willing to do something about it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
