Summer Lee believes that true democratic power lies in the collective action of the people rather than just relying on elected officials.

“At the end of the day, it is still the final fail-safe of democracy is it is the people, the people, which is why the This is where I think one of the biggest failures of the Democratic Party falls, right?”

Effective political change requires people to stop working in isolation and to mobilize collectively across all professional sectors.

“we are effective when we come to together. The first thing we discussed was divide and rule and and you know, we're constant effort to atomize us, to keep us in our boxes, to tell us we're consumers rather than citizens.”