A lot of people ask me, “Where do you get a sense of hope or optimism from in times like this?”
For me, I’ve always gotten that from you all: my fellow Americans. The fact that there are people willing to stand up and demand the maximum for our future.
We have inherited an unfair world. We have inherited a world where prior generations of leadership have set the table so that companies get richer and richer, and people's incomes stay the same or get even lower.
We have inherited a world where we had to grow up practicing for school shootings because our leaders are too cowardly to stand up to the NRA and gun manufacturing companies and say “No more.”
We had an assault weapons ban until 2005. We had tuition-free colleges and universities in the 1970’s. We had record investments in housing — public housing, social housing, and more — generations ago.
But when we stand up and say, “We’d like some of those things again,” we’re called extreme. There is nothing extreme about trying to work for a living and put food on the table.
I refuse to leave an unfair world to generations to come. We will make sure that we leave a different world. One where people can work 40 hours a week, put food on the table, afford their housing, and live a decent life.
And if people want to call me “extreme” for believing that? Bring it on.
If you want to call me “extreme” for thinking any person should have rights over their body? Bring it on.
If you want to call me “extreme” for acknowledging the Congressional Budget Office assessment that immigrants brought in trillions of dollars in U.S. revenue and paid more taxes than Elon Musk or these other folks? Bring it on.
We have nothing to fear. There is nothing to fear in moving forward into a better future.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
From Team AOC:This is an excerpt from a rally that Alexandria helped launch for the Harris/Walz campaign. You can watch Alexandria's full remarks here →
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