Manda Scott

Then he answered his own question.

He said, it's because you let us make promises during elections.

Then you reelect as you tap out for four years or two years.

You can't do that, he said, if you want to.

So I don't trust politicians for the most part, with some exceptions.

I trust the people, but we have to be more engaged.

We have to break out of our own tribalism.

That's our job.

Social media companies are not going to change because it works unless we change.

And that, again, it's a big ask, but we have to look at ourselves.

This isn't just about the politicians.

They respond as they did in Texas.

When we're engaged, we can change things.

If we only vote, we can't.

I may just say a word about that because I vehemently agree with you.

When I talk about the people in the middle being important, it's because there are people who are able to hold space for dissonance.

And people in the middle tend to be able to hold space for dissonance.

I think we tend to think of people in the middle as being wishy-washy, not having strong convictions.

But those people are not have not want to sign up to be in a tribe.

And as my friend Gilfine said recently, when he was trying to talk to someone who disagreed with all climate change, he came to an epiphany.