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@AOC
"And it's actually a fascinating progressive moment,
because what it's shown is that all of these issues have
never been about how are you going to pay for it.
It's never been about whether we have the capacity
to do these things or if the logistics have worked out...
...All of these excuses that we have been given as to
why we cannot treat people humanely have suddenly gone
up in smoke. And what has been revealed is that all of these
issues were really about a lack of political will and who you
deemed worthy to be in an emergency or not...
...Because to me in New York city, the highest rates of homelessness
since the great depression has been in emergency for a very long time,
and we have had to have been pushing for housing as
a human right for a very long time...
...Now that we are experiencing everybody who's threatened by
the uncertainty of this moment, everyone's realizing, wait,
we are all in this together...
...and that applies not just to issues of, of economic prosperity,
but it also applies to issues of criminal justice, of civil rights,
of human rights."
