Ocasio-Cortez: ‘It Doesn’t Feel Good to Live in a Society’ with Penthouses and Homeless People

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "A lot of it require is is part of our personal responsibility to educate ourselves I meant to get past the revisionist history that were taught in the fourth grade and so and that's you know I think that's an important part but also the messaging is important as well and that ... it doesn't feel good to live in an unequal society it doesn't feel good like I walk through New York City which has the highest rate of people who are homeless today than in any other time since the Great Depression and at the same time there are penthouses galore, fifty percent of which are vacant, because they're people's like second or third or fourth home. And it doesn't feel good doesn't feel good walking down near city and and you know and walking and seeing so many veterans who are homeless so many ... elderly who are homeless and and so on people with mental illnesses that are homeless. Like it doesn't feel good to live in a society like that. And so I part of it I think it does go back to the to the to the moral question it's like and that's where you know you're also able to combat that incrementalism because.”