Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was adamant that she will not give up working to fend off a future she views as undesirable, saying that “we have to fight for each other.”
While speaking on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) podcast, Ocasio-Cortez complained that people are forced to choose “between medicine and rent,” ostensibly because of perceived inequities in healthcare and wages, calling it “barbarism.”
“If we do not demand, and not only demand but win, unions, healthcare, wages, ending endless war, then we will condemn ourselves to barbarism, and I refuse to give up,” the New York Democrat said as Sanders listened on. “I refuse to submit myself to that future. That’s not a life.”
The Vermont independent promoted his podcast episode, which will be released on Wednesday, by saying he and Ocasio-Cortez “discuss what it’s like to take on the establishment, why we call ourselves democratic socialists, and what inspires us to keep fighting against long odds.”
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Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are known as two of the most progressive politicians in Congress, and they often collaborate on policy, including protecting the environment and improving minimum wages and housing. In March, the two members of Congress released a new “Green New Deal for Public Housing” meant to “reimagine and reinvigorate public housing in the United States.”
The allies have also been critical of Israel in its military campaign in Gaza, calling for an end to Israel’s push into the area and America’s policy of sending military aid to the country.
