Michelle Obama

Reducing those regulations and lowering those barriers and making it so much, making it so easy to confuse the conversation is part of why we're at where we're at.

Even when you watch the news, like even when you watch, when you go to another country and watch the news, they just say what happened.

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They don't really have personalities like we do.

They're like, all right, the bus hit another bus and two buses have been hit.

And then they're done talking.

And then they might cut to commercial.

They go to another story, something like that.

It's only here where you have the person looking at the camera telling you how to feel about the buses and telling you what it means for one bus to crash into another bus and telling you why that is the failing of democracy, that these two buses can crash into each other.

And so you're like, at a certain point, you're like, what does this even have to do with?

And so I think that there are aspects of how...

we function as government and how our democracy works that are broken, which have led to the disillusionment of the people.

But I don't think that it's anything that we can't come back from.

I think that there just need to be more, you know, this is like probably not the most charitable way to put it, but there just need to be more spines all around.

I think that there's a lot of like,

Dems consistently fail to capitalize on some of the just pure, pure L's that Republicans take.

And that's what I mean about like a new wave.

I think that at a certain point, you need to either make room for or start nurturing the people who actually see the vision in a different way.

Like these institutions are...

they are fragile and they exist in so much as we are willing to protect them.