Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

But I think we need to fix that.

And then I think there's...

the separate sense, which is like, how do people feel about their agency?

Yeah.

And I think that's also where we're having a crisis right now.

So one, I think a lot more people need to be significantly more optimistic.

Like in a capitalist democracy, if people stop being optimistic, the entire thing breaks down.

So the existence of optimism creates optimism.

And when enough people feel like they don't have agency, they actually lose their agency.

And so it's a paradoxical thing, and I would never tell someone who's working two jobs and is a single mother with three kids, like, hey, you just have to be optimistic.

That's not the answer.

We need to fix a lot.

And I think there are structural reasons that people make people believe they don't have agency.

I'd argue neither.

I would rather live in the country where the elections are fair, but people don't think they're fair, and then work to show the truth that the elections are fair.

And this is where if you actually think the elections are fair, it is extremely evil to spread discourse that the elections might not be fair.

This is not like a partisan thing.

Like both parties are completely involved in doing this.

But if elections just become unfair, there's also like, there's no way to fix that system.

Like that is an immediately broken system.

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