Marc Maron
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But, but it seemed like the intention on, on your behalf.
And I noticed this is a, something that happened to me recently.
I was in Canada, you know, for a couple of days.
And I was talking to somebody up there, and I said, the best thing that Trump has done is bring your country together.
But it was fundamentally like, you know, despite whatever differences they have, and it is a parliamentary system up there, but it's individuals that, however they were leaning culturally, right or left, that when, you know, the bullying started and the tariffs started and the threats started...
they were able to go down to their core beliefs of what their country meant and what it meant to them and how they were going to come together and rebuild from the inside so we don't have to deal with this.
But it struck me as to like, well,
And I know the answer to some level.
How are we not capable of it?
How is it that most people don't understand the civic responsibility or the civic structure of how this country is supposed to work outside of the people that are shamelessly against it?
A sense of unity, a sense of people helping each other.
I believe that what you're talking about politically in terms of –
what we spoke about earlier, that people are different and some may have different beliefs, but there was a compromise that could be met and that tolerance in and of itself is conditional to democracy working.
But the brains have been broken through exploiting grievance and anger.
And in talking about the left, the fact that so many decided to not vote at a protest because they didn't feel that the situation in Israel, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and whatnot was not going to be dealt with by Kamala or however that goes.
So you get this protest vote of people not willing to make a compromise for what you used to talk about as the incremental progress.
We can make it better.