‘We Must Defeat The System That Created Him’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands Ridding Politics Of ‘Big Money’

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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.

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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.

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