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

And so first and foremost, you need to make sure elections are fair.

And then you have to show the truth about that.

And that could be politicians, that could be anyone.

I mean, it's not exactly what I asked, but it's a great... Sorry, I might have misunderstood the question.

For sure.

But widespread mischief can also become afoot.

And so you also, like, it is also bad for everyone to go around saying, you know what, the elections are fair, the elections are fair, the elections are fair.

You need to dig in on which ways the elections might not be fair.

and fix those, but don't spread conspiracy theories.

And if you're, anyway, don't spread ideas that it might not be fair if it is fair.

And so I think both have to be true.

This is just democracy.

I think like any power system is inherently unstable.

Let's say you're Russia right now, and you have a dictatorship.

That is a very unstable system, because Putin is going to die someday, and he will be replaced by someone.

And there is a high, high, high level of variance when that happens.

And he will die and be replaced someday.

And so...

a lot of people make the argument for like benevolent monarchy well it turns out that is a very unstable system and so first of all you want a somewhat stable system but democracy is also deeply deeply deeply unstable like the second the citizens in a democracy either don't believe in their own agency like they think they have no ability to influence politics

or stop caring, democracy fails pretty immediately.

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