David Pakman

Now, I would like to say I would like to say that we all know who the real truth tellers are, but we know that there's a big bias with this.

There is very low approval for Congress, but much higher approval for the specific representatives of people.

It's sort of like when you ask people, do you think you're in the best 50 percent of drivers or the worst 50 percent of drivers?

And like 80 percent of people believe they're in the top 50 percent.

Mathematically impossible.

Similarly, we have a lot of people who go.

So many of these elected officials are terrible.

They're disingenuous.

They don't have the best interests of the people in mind.

My elected officials.

Good, though.

Much higher approval rating.

So statistically, that doesn't make sense.

Something's got to give here.

The other thing that I think is important to consider is that it has become a big element of politics

that people want their ideology validated.

They want they want someone who's on their side and inconsistency really doesn't matter anymore.

Now, later in the week, I'm going to talk about how being wrong also doesn't really have a downside for a lot of elected officials.

But if we zoom out here, we have a situation where double standards and inconsistency have stopped mattering as long as you hear what you believe you want to hear from your elected officials.

Now, if we zoom out even further.