>> We don't have a Left party in the United States.
The Democratic party's not a Left party.
>> That's representative Alexandria Castillo Cortez speaking the truth about the Democratic
party during an event to commemorate Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now, this put the establishment in quite a tizzy, and we'll explain why.
But let's hear more of what she had to say.
>> We don't have a Left party in the United States.
The Democratic party's not a Left party.
>> The Democratic arty is a center or center Conservative party.
We do not advocate for, we can't even get a floor vote on Medicare for all.
Not even a floor vote that gets voted down.
We can't even get a vote on it.
So this is not a Left party.
There are Left members inside the Democratic party that are working to try to make that
shift happen.
But you're right, it does convey a certain sentiment about true believers.
And there are a lot of true believers in that we can capitalism our way out of poverty in
the Democratic party.
If anything, that's probably the majority.
>> Right.
>> And that's an area in which I agree with Dr King, that that assessment is flawed.
>> So AOC is absolutely right and she had made similar comments recently while speaking
to New York Magazine.
She was quoted as saying they let anybody who the cat dragged in call themselves a Progressive.
There's no standard.
Democrats can be too big of a tent.
And she's right because, even in this election, you have people like Senator Amy Klobuchar
referring to herself as Progressive, when in reality, and she says this on the debate
stage all the time, she's all about practicality, she wants to be practical.
She doesn't want to promise things that she's not really gonna fight for, right?
So she wants to be measured, she wants to temper the expectations of votes.
When in reality, it doesn't need to work that way.
When you look at the polling and when you look at what Democratic constituents want,
they want Medicare for All.
They want to cancel student loan debt and they want free college tuition at public institutions.
These are not crazy ideas.
The only reason why they appear to be crazy is because that's what we hear regurgitated
over and over again by the corporate media.
And because politicians have these giant donors in their pockets, and they're the ones who
keep regurgitating those points.
It's not crazy when you look at the public polling, and you see what the public wants.
The Democratic party as it stands right now doesn't really represent what Democratic voters
want.
That simple.
>> Well, I'm glad she finally said it, finally.
Yeah, we've been saying on this show for over a year.
You know they're not gonna vote on Medicare for all.
And the audience has, when I first started saying it, they're like, no, what do you mean?
At some point you're gonna have a vote, aren't you?
No, not in this term.
And certainly if Bernie doesn't win, ever.
They're not gonna have a vote on Medicare for all.
So I asked Progressive candidates, Warren, Sanders, etc., I asked other Progressives,
can you please say the truth?
They're not gonna have a vote.
So for the first time, finally, a Progressive said it.
We're not even gonna vote on Medicare for all.
Forget winning.
So look, the media in their infinite corruption and establishment bias are outraged by comments
she says that are the most obvious things in the world.
I mean, the majority of the Democratic leadership says no to Medicare for all, no to Green New
deal, no to getting a corruption out of politics.
They say it's not corruption, what do you mean, when I take corporate money, it's not
corruption at all.
So they don't agree with any of our policies, but yet the mainstream media goes I don't
see a division,t here's no division, no no, they're Progressives, they're Progressives,
no, they're the Left party.
No they're not.
The Democratic leadership is not remotely Left.
They are the corporate wing of the Democratic party.
That's obvious, that's obvious as a minimum you can say, right?
Now, the reality is, AOC and others should say more.
Who's blocking those votes?
Are the republicans in charge of the House?
I don't think they are, right?
I know that the media will attack you.
I know they've attacked me.
When I say it's Nancy Pelosi who's blocking the vote.
Now, that's a fact.
That's a fact.
But apparently, it makes people uncomfortable.
And you wouldn't wanna be impolite in Washington.
So even when AOC says things that are just, in my opinion, really soft and obvious.
What is the media reaction?
I can't believe she's saying that.
Come on.
So all right, well, then, I wonder what they would've said about MLK.
Actually, I know.
But let me read you quotes from MLK, since she mentioned MLK and we're so close to it.
He said this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or taking the tranquilizing
drug of gradualism.
Now's the time to make real the promise of democracy.
Now, the New York Times and all the media and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer say let's
take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
I mean, my god, what do you want, to change now?
No, we're not gonna vote on it now.
And hopefully Bernie won't win and we won't vote on a next term or ever.
No, just take a nice little tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Look, ask them.
Hey, Pelosi.
I know, I'm the rude one.
Schumer, Hoyer, any of you?
When are you going to vote on it?
Okay, here's another one.
King said we are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today.
We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.
This is no time for apathy.
This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
And last one, he said there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights when
will you be satisfied?
He went on to say no, no, we are not satisfied.
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a
mighty stream.
If he was around now, Democratic leadership would attack him.
And they would say how dare you?
How dare you?
We're gonna do it later.
You want the fierce urgency of now?
What an unreasonable Progressive.
What do you want us to be Leftists?
And then get mad.
And then, what else did Martin Luther King do?
He fought against the Vietnam war against war.
Against war?
No, no, we vote with the Republicans on war.
What do you want us to, what are you talking about?
Income inequality, Leftists, Socialists.
Can you believe that he wanted to help people who were suffering poverty?
What a Leftist Martin Luther King is.
And he wants immediate action?
When is he ever gonna be satisfied?
You think they wouldn't have said that?
I guarantee you they would've said that, and everyone watching knows that.