Bill Thompson

And then you had the baby boomers who kind of culturally said, you know, actually, it's not as bad as we think.

But then it overcorrected.

And then it became kind of part of that cultural zeitgeist.

Yeah.

Yeah, we do.

And I would say that's the – this isn't a political thing.

This is just the reality of it.

That's mostly what makes me conservative in nature.

is I agree systems need to change, but they need to change slowly and pragmatically because any social scientists worth their salt will know

social experiment almost never has the outcome that we thought it was going to have in other words we thought doing something to society would form society this way but it almost has the the inverse the anti-pattern like we talked about before and almost ends up propagating itself and so that makes me i'm still a proponent for change but it should be slow and and thought out

and done in pockets first.

Kind of, you know, federalism.

Let's do the little changes here.

Let's let California be crazy for a while and see how that works out for them.

But let's not nationalize the craziness.

Let's learn from what they learned there and there'll be goodness.

You know, hot baristas that make great coffee and cool art.

And let's take those parts, but how about the rampant homeless?

Let's find out what caused that and solve for that.

And, you know, that was kind of the founder's intent with federalism.