Gavin Newsom

In fact, Sam Adams.

who we think of as a beer.

He was a failure as a brewer and a tax collector, but he was really good propagandist.

And he said something that reminded me of our current media landscape.

He said, there were times when the British would acquiesce.

Okay, the Stamp Act, we're done with it.

We're not going to impose it.

And so everybody, the Sons of Liberty disband and it's all over.

And Sam Adams is going, no, they're just going to do something bad.

And he said, my job was to keep my fellow countrymen alive to their grievances.

Right?

Sound familiar?

In which you only have a politics that has to do with them and us.

And my whole thing is that I've been making films about the U.S., but I've also been making films about us.

That is to say, the lowercase two-letter plural pronoun.

All of the intimacy...

of us and we and our and all of the majesty complexity contradiction and even controversy of the us but the one thing i've learned if i've learned anything is that there's no them there's no them there's only us and that whenever anyone creates a them it is for an agenda that is not

one that is in sync with what a pluralistic democracy is.

I mean, we now have been, over the last 50 years, I've watched the word liberal fall, shot dead, you know, at a firing squad.

I've watched all these sorts of things.