Adam Gurri

Yeah, I mean, I think so.

And maybe the more minimal version of that, because that is a pretty strong statement, right?

But I definitely think you need... It depends on what you mean by broad.

Like, how broad are we talking?

Obviously, there's always going to be conservatives.

Also, there's, like, how liberal... Like, there's some people that are fairly liberal.

There's others that are not as liberal on trans rights, right?

But they are for freedom of speech and democracy and things like that.

Anyway, setting that aside, a good...

book on this topic in terms of what we need to do as a society is the political theorist Kevin Elliott's Democracy for Busy People.

And his basic point is that education definitely is one, but that there's a number of things we need to do just to make sure that people are actually politically integrated in this country.

So it's not even just like larger level knowledge about democracy and civic responsibility and things, but actually like just getting people actually engaged

which is not a matter of persuasion.

He says, it's a matter of institutions.

It's a matter of, of actually like committing to do, to do that.

And for, you know, one of his examples is actually having mandatory voting and things like that.

Just like actually like having, getting people in the practice of participating in politics in a way that is fairly like a lot, a lot of things that are, that just get built into their, their lives.

I have grown increasingly for it.

And one of the arguments that he makes is that it's really unhealthy for a society to have a large disengaged segment because even if you think it's okay for people to choose that, they can't actually commit to always choosing that.

And what ends up happening is they become disengaged and they become very ignorant about some basic things about politics and the country.