Ian Dunt

And if you don't, you know, you go for the other guys.

It wasn't about like your sense of identity.

It wasn't about the people with a capital T and a capital P as one unified, homogenous whole that is spoken to by the leadership as if they can understand its spirit.

All of this stuff was just madly exotic.

I remember when... It just sounds like the Bolshevik Party to me as well, that idea, you know, we represent the will of the working class.

I mean, much more vicious, because suddenly politics wasn't about a difference of ideas, it was about who you were.

And that wasn't just the case of the opponents, right?

That was going down to the basic level of the society.

Because how were people voting?

You know, you were seeing discrepancies.

The best predicator was basically whether you had a university education or not.

That was the most effective predicate.

There was another one, which was basically, do you support capital punishment?

That was another very good predicator of how you would vote.

So you had authoritarian dispositions on one hand, and liberal on the other.

You'd have lots of really interesting psychological evaluations saying, for instance, there's a difference in voting by virtue of how people feel when someone walks into a room.

Let's say they're in a room talking to a few other people.

Someone new walks in.

How do you feel?

Do you feel excited about all the new possibilities of conversation that may be about to happen?