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Republicans and Democrats aren't gonna get along in Congress. That that has to do with, I think, the incentives of Congress. My first book is called Why We're Polarized. It's about those almost hydraulic incentives for partisanship. But in terms of w
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And so Donald Trump and his sort of reimagining of the Republican Party as a right wing populist, more like sort of some, Christian democratic parties in other countries, you know, up in that quadrant of socially conservative, economically populist,
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And then in particular in the last three years, it's just the numbers have just caved in. And so the universities, for example, the, you know, their their their approval ratings and the their sort of trust ratings for the population writ large have j
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...and polarization, but it's also because of another thing. It's because the Democrats have become a party of radicalism and extremism. And the viewpoints that they expressed through their aesthetics the other night, they do express those things in pol
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in cases of political violence, but it's more than that. Right? It's not just the Charlie Kirk assassination or January 6 or the attack on Pelosi's home. It's also making us hate each other as Americans. It's making us incapable of coming together to
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...and politically. And I think one of the things Matt mentioned earlier in this conversation is this idea of sort of like bringing back the center. And I think most people hear the center and they think like neutral they think like an absence of passio
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So all of these problems are creating real issues with with data, and the real time understanding of what's happening in the economy has deteriorated as a consequence. You mentioned something interesting once where you said, you know, and and I think
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is in Congress. So we've got four thirty five seats in the House. Last time I checked, less than one out of 10 of them is considered to be seriously competitive at best. Less than 40 are actually competitive, which means in nine out of 10 races, the
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...and polarization and, ultimately, just this ineffectiveness that happens at the extremes of the ideological
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...and political attitudes. Yes. And the same thing, I think, in The US and the Republican party on the right, you know, was a coalition of, sort of Wall Street Journal reading capitalists and Yeah. Like, Mitt Romney and Right. Military guys. That that
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underneath that, is it that there's hatred, or is it that there's just incredible competition now to accumulate power and win elections? What do you believe is at the root cause of why people can't call balls and strikes? I think it's both. It's that
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Partisan bias, by the way. If we asked we asked producer Claude. Partisan perceptual bias or partisan motivated reasoning is the cognitive, biases. You know, you have these cognitive biases, that everybody likes to talk about when you're an investor.
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Real wages haven't really gone up for, like, forty years. So you've got a lot of problems. You can identify that through income inequality, you can talk about that this and that way. So why is this important? It's important because it means that goin
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...and polarization, but it's also because of another thing. It's because the Democrats have become a party of radicalism and extremism. And the viewpoints that they expressed
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And then, and then and then and then, and and then you we'll we'll get to this more. I know. But then, you know, going direct, right, which is, you know, what a big thing that makes both reality TV work and that makes pro pro professional wrestling w
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I agree with Chamath, and I think it's just so distasteful for, you know, a public official to do something like that in especially for an American company. And it you know, if you hear the people cheering in the background, it's obvious that there's
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...political left in particular, they are looking at this data center stuff. They are all over it. More Perfect Union, which is one of those it's like a Bernie aligned institution. They have been all over this issue. So I'm watching the populist left re
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