Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sounds A Lot Like Karl Marx

I think that the effort to divide race and class has always been the tool of the powerful to prevent everyday working people from taking control of the government that is supposed to work for them [Music] see a lot of the roots of the issues that we have right now take really start to take hold in the late 70s and during the 80s I think perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans in order to just screw over all working-class Americans is Reaganism in the eighties a few isolated groups in the backwater of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about recently in some places in the nation there's been a disturbing reoccurrence of bigotry and violence if I may from the platform of this organization known for its tolerance I would like to address a few remarks to those groups who still adhere to senseless racism and religious prejudice to those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior if I were speaking to them instead of to you I would say to them you are the ones who are out of step with our society you are the ones who willfully violate the meaning of the dream that is America and this country because if that's what it stands for will not stand for your conduct [Music]