Dr. Todd Rose

Right.

And so we all become caricatures of some fringe view that nobody really holds.

And so one of the things that I've been the most proud of is, and the reason why I wanted to write this book is, you know, you give people a concept and people go, oh, wow, I didn't realize this.

And then it opens up the ability to start talking about, well, wait a minute.

Like, here's some of the things I think, you know, it's a safe way to have the conversation.

We do.

And it's only we can do this.

Because if you think about it, there are people who profit from the illusions.

And especially in a binary political system, there's a lot of benefit to getting people to be more extreme and locked into an identity where you'll fall on that sword because these are my people.

So let's take a few things because we can go all day on this, which is pretty incredible.

We studied the American aspirations of X. So this was a US focused one.

And we studied, what do you want for the country?

And there were dozens and dozens and dozens of possibilities.

And what was shocking to me, we found that in the top 10 aspirations for the country, we agreed on eight out of the 10.

Individual rights.

Yep.

We still believe that in free speech, treating each other with respect, everyone have high quality healthcare.

So there's a basic kind of life we want to live together.

And we know that we owe each other certain things to make that life possible.

And it turns out we agree on that.