Katherine Boyle

It matters for the sort of

ideologies you want your family exposed to.

And so I think there's something, there is a bit of a return.

Talk about optimistic things.

There's a bit of a return to people recognizing, you know, I don't need to live in New York City or San Francisco.

Like where I really want to be is in a place where I know I'm raising my family and raising my kids with the values that I had.

I mean, I always say I moved to Florida, moved back to Florida because I wanted my kids to have the 90s childhood that I did.

And I think they can get it there in a way that they're certainly not going to get it in San Francisco.

not much but a lot of people are just scared to share just a simple opinion because they don't want to be you know blasted or judged even even in like a a small town environment like this totally it seems like i think a huge part of the problem is we've replaced you know america has always been a religious country and then you saw this decline starting around you know 1970s this real decline in religion it's coming back up again for we'll talk about a lot of optimistic things but that's one thing i'm optimistic about is the religious revival

But, you know, five, ten years ago, it was really bad, right?

Where just the continued decline of people not believing in God, not going to church.

But it leaves this hole for some other sort of ideology.

And I think Americans have replaced their love of God, their love of country with their love of politics.

And so now we sort by ideological preference politics.

It's like, well, you're, you know, the way that people in previous civilizations used to feel about religious outsiders is how we feel about political outsiders.

And so I do think we're more polarized, but I think the root of that is that we don't have anything in common anymore.

And we used to have sort of this, you know, Christian ideology or, you know, or sort of even just understanding that America has certain values.

And we don't, for a very long time, that was under attack.

decades that was under attack.

And it's only now that we're sort of moving back to people saying, okay, maybe I should go to church.