At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Montana on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke about the money involved in the American political system.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00And this has been the big money playbook, not just now, but for decades.
00:07And that is why Donald Trump is not in aberration.
00:13He is the logical, inevitable conclusion of an American political system dominated by corporate and dark money.
00:22And if we are to defeat him, Montana, we must defeat the system that created him.
00:34Money in politics is the hands of oligarchy.
00:42We are at a crossroads, Montana.
00:45We can either have extreme wealth inequality with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive.
00:54Or we can have a fair economy for working people along with the democracy and freedoms that uphold it.
01:04Oligarchy or democracy.
01:08But we cannot have both.