Alex Mehr

They rejected the concept of a strong totalitarian government.

And that's why they did what they did.

So it's like I got to do it for my kids.

In other words, you said, you know, I need to do it for business people.

and stuff and i get it and i agree with you to me it's even one level more personal i don't know if you have kids or not but yeah so for me it is like i don't want my kids to grow up in that country so yeah that's that was a deal breaker i'm like now i'm gonna talk yeah so i completely agree and um

Yes.

Does that make sense?

It does, and you're right.

So I think permission, and here's another way to think about it.

Again, it's not left versus right.

People who have self-made egocentric belief systems, they're like, I think this needs to be blah, blah, blah, whatever ism.

They are actually the ones who are more likely to be vocal about their opinions than people who think through things, okay?

Pragmatic people.

And that creates actually a problem.

The problem is pragmatic people, they're all like, you know, they're reasonable people and they're thinking, doing, you know, cost-benefit analysis.

And they're like, well, do I really want to offend people?

Blah, blah, blah.

And therefore, they're quiet.

And the minority...

with crazy egocentric ideas are louder.