Barry Baines
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Yeah, so I'm going to pile on a little bit with it with Aaron.
You know, here as well.
I think part of the problem is that at one level, people don't know what they don't know.
And the information they get is not very clear.
And so it's very easy for that to get distorted.
And so people may go down a track of supporting something or at least tacitly supporting something that if they had all the information in a clear way, they probably wouldn't support it.
That being said, I think what's going to wind up happening is that when people start to be impacted directly by these things, that's going to be the wake up call.
And I'll use Aaron's example of, you know, childhood cancer.
When that hits, you know, in a community and they start to see that with their neighbors or their own family, it's like going to be, you know, like, all right, what?
you know, what the heck is going on here.
So I think, and this is going to take time, clearly, for it to play out.
The other thing is that rural America is, in some ways, going to be even more impacted by all these things that are going on.
And at least, you know, demographically, that support for the current administration has been
you know, a lot more in rural areas.
So when that comes home to roost, then maybe people will understand that.
The other one last thing is that some of the public polling that I've seen has shown that there's been significant shifts, again, building on what Aaron said, that most people, you know, all now are seeing this are not supporting this.
And that number continues to grow week to week and month to month.
You know, I'll tee up because I know we're going to wind up going there during the show when we talk about what people can do.