Faiz Shakir
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't know.
I haven't seen enough of the polling on that, but we're making a
a theoretical observation here, that if we feel like we can get to 50 plus one with Democratic votes and that Osborne or an independent in Montana could win, great, great.
That's great.
Great for politics, great for all of us.
The MPP, and we've seen this, and Bernie, as he gets that, he's done the fight oligarchy rallies over the course of the last year, and we look at the matched every attendee over the voting rolls minutes, and then same with MPU, and we look at all of our audience where they're coming in, particularly if you're younger than 35, you're an independent, you're no party preference.
Honestly, even if you might say you're dumb, you're not really.
And so a lot of people are just are independent minded.
But when you say independent minded, what is there?
They still have ideological orientation.
That's what often gets discounted.
There's sometimes a conflation that independent is moderate centrist.
And that the partisanship isn't what appeals to people right now.
It is.
I don't want to beat the dead horse here.
Once again, that the people's economic lives govern their orientation.
They're thinking about politics, not the other way around.
Politics doesn't tend to govern.
I mean, unless you're like you and me, political animals, we think about politics all the time.
Most people