Anand Giridharadas

Reclaim that heritage instead of the heritage of avoiding taxes and buying government access

as the only way the future is chosen.

At the end of the day, democracy is a fancy Greek word for who chooses the future?

People choosing the future.

We choose the future.

We shape the future.

We get together in this messy process, this 24-7, 365, rollicking argument with each other.

This...

occasional practice of writing down who we want to lead us on a piece of paper, putting it in the machine, and we choose the future.

And the ultimate hard thing, but over history, most powerful possible idea is that the people who should choose the future is not some guy whose dad also chose it, is not the people with the most land in the village, is not the people with a certain last name,

is not the people with a certain skin color, is not the people who have the most gold or the most treasury bills or the most equities.

That the people who should choose the future is us.

That we beautifully, messily, cacophonously should choose the future together.

This is the ultimate hard thing.

And I think it's a hard thing we can do.

And

The first step to doing it is to stop believing those who tell you that's not your birthright.

Thank you for this conversation and your questions and letting me riff on your title forever.

Thank you so much, Amanda.

I love what you guys are doing. I think you are role modeling a spirit of fighting that has essentially become absent. from the political left in this country and you are role modeling it back to life. And I so appreciate that. You know, it's funny you talk about that book, Winners Take All, which is my third book. I was joking the other day to a friend of mine, but I was only half joking.