Faiz Shakir

I think about their economic lives of the struggles and then working backwards to does politics even match or represent or have infused anything into this?

And the answer currently right now is not really, because you don't have working class candidates, generally speaking, across the board who are matching your concerns over AI or the development or the lack of human labor force who matches where your thinking is at.

uh you know it's just i i think at some point we were always due for some kind of national orientation on this to be honest with you i do the sustainability of these kinds of state-by-state approaches is in this age what we understand of trump is a sense of authoritarianism and you sense that there's an appeal among some people in the in the public rightly so that all structures across the board become dysfunctional there's lack of trust

in democracy because we don't believe that institutions can function.

So then in my mind, there are some of these approaches that make better sense to execute nationally.

Now that we're in a cycle and a race to the bottom, you fight the fights that you have to fight to fight the moment that we're in.

Yeah, I mean, I guess the quibble there is do you sense an orientation once you have power?

What is a first order priority of how do you solve this fundamental problem?

And I think we have to make sure that it's an integrity based movement of people who are saying, hey, here's the right way an election system should work.

Let's have national redistricting.

I don't live with that fear.

I think everyone is fully aware why we are engaged in a kind of asymmetrical warfare and the need for a different orientation to meet the crisis of the moment.

And that happens to be around Donald Trump and his lack of value system.

of how he thinks about how to govern.

And so you say, okay, well, we're gonna fully lose our value since we gotta fight a fight right now.

The bullies in the alley and then attacking, you attack, but then once you reorient, say, how would I better deal with this situation?

in the future such to avoid these kinds of problems and i i want that kind of thinking that we have to be the structural foreign party that says hey now they're having it live through chaos and a reorientation of what donald trump did to government can we come in and be reform-minded in our own right we this goes back to your issue discussion of the democrats not loving friction and fights we come up status quo party it is what is assumed of you and of us and

in the words that you used as well, adult.

Adult-minded is to say, listen, guys, don't fight fights you can't win.

Don't worry about it.