I grew up poor. I'm a working class woman and I work way too hard for way too little.

And you know, a lot of my peers are strapped with six-figure student debt.

And they're being offered jobs, making 30 grand a year, and they'll never be able to realize

the American dream as it's been sold to my generation of people. Socialism means that,

you know, we take care of people. It means that I believe that everyone should have

health care, that everyone deserves a quality education, and that everyone deserves a decent

place to live. I don't think that those are bad things. I think that in the richest

nation in the world, we have residents who deserve that at every level, and that government's

role is to serve the people and not the reverse.

Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

The year after presidential elections tends to be kind of a low in electoral politics,

but every year after presidential elections, there's sort of three big races that happen

that end up occupying a fair amount of political energy. There's the New York City Mayor's

race. It always happens a year after, and then there are two big, gubernatorial races,

Virginia, and New Jersey. As I'm speaking to you right now in mid to late October, those

have not happened yet, but the Jersey race does not look competitive this year. The Virginia

race, however, does, and that will be a huge bellweather. But the most interesting electoral

result of the year so far happened in the city of Buffalo, New York, which like New York

City has its mayoral race the year after the presidential race. In June, there was a democratic

primary. In that race, the four-term incumbent, the man by the name of Byron Brown, was

unseated by a woman named India Walton. Now, India Walton has a fascinating story. She's

a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a nurse and activist with SEIU,

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