00:00Otherwise, people will turn to fascism, to mini Trump, which is who I think Spencer Pratt really represents.
00:08You know, I think that Spencer Pratt is tapping into a lot of the frustrations that people have in Los
00:14Angeles by the way that things are going.
00:16And his Trumpian qualities is exactly why I think Angelino should be taking this race seriously, but should also be
00:26grappling with the critiques.
00:27L.A. right now feels worse than it did two years ago or three years ago.
00:35For a lot of Angelinos, it feels like we are moving in the wrong direction rather than in the right
00:39direction.
00:40And that isn't just a consequence of the fact that economically things are harder.
00:44It's also a consequence of the fact that even some of our most basic services in the city, like streetlights
00:50and potholes, are worse than what they were before.
00:53There's 30,000 streetlights across the entire city.
00:56There's more potholes than they were.
00:59And our homelessness crisis continues to exist on our streets.
01:04And I think this is the same issue that we're facing nationally, which is if you feel like the country
01:11is moving in the wrong direction,
01:13and if you feel like establishment democratic politics is not feeling that urgency to solve those issues or to prevent
01:21them from happening in the first place, people lose faith in government.
01:26And I feel that frustration around me in Los Angeles every day, and it drives me and my work, and
01:37it drove me to run for this seat.
01:40But I also think it's a very real thing that we should take seriously and we need to grapple with,
01:44and we need to offer it an honest response, a response that's rooted in actually solving these problems.
01:51Otherwise, people will turn to fascism, to mini-Trump, which is who I think Spencer Pratt really represents.
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