Erik Holt

It's like school board elections and like these other things and like these weird ideologies come into our kids.

Some of the stuff we were talking about earlier, right?

And so it's like, oh, okay, there's a valid fight here.

And whatever it costs me, whatever energy it expends, it's worth it for me to fight.

Not only for my kids, but like there's a greater thing at stake here.

You know, if our elections are like...

Colorado election laws are so weak.

It's like a misdemeanor to completely cheat an election.

I mean, think of that craziness, right?

I think there's enough of like a reward of saying you won something.

I'm popular because more people voted for me than you.

And if that, then people like me better and I'm cooler than you.

At a local level, I really think that's what it is.

In the same county where I was going through my stuff, the school board elections were so much vitriol.

They probably spent 10 times the operating budget on lawsuits back and forth at each other that just deprived the kids of like, what's the purpose here?

So mine was a fire department.

If you're a school board, are you going to waste $5 million on lawsuits to say I was right and you were wrong?

Or should you just apply that to the kids and their learning?

I mean, I would hope it would be applied to the kids.

You would think, but that's not what's happening right now.