Pete

Maybe that's a perfectly good job, obviously, but if the last 20 years of your life have been about not just the way you make your money, but the way you see where you fit in the world is about what you know how to do in a machine shop. Yeah. And some well-intentioned person with a clipboard is telling you, guess what, now you get to be a nursing assistant.

Maybe that's a perfectly good job, obviously, but if the last 20 years of your life have been about not just the way you make your money, but the way you see where you fit in the world is about what you know how to do in a machine shop. Yeah. And some well-intentioned person with a clipboard is telling you, guess what, now you get to be a nursing assistant.

Like, that is not finding people where they are. That's not—because something has happened to their sense of belonging. And, you know, we really care about belonging, maybe to a fault, but, like, we try to make sure that there is room for everybody at the table in society and in different processes and in our politics. But if we really take that seriously, like, if we really live up to that—

Like, that is not finding people where they are. That's not—because something has happened to their sense of belonging. And, you know, we really care about belonging, maybe to a fault, but, like, we try to make sure that there is room for everybody at the table in society and in different processes and in our politics. But if we really take that seriously, like, if we really live up to that—

Like, that is not finding people where they are. That's not—because something has happened to their sense of belonging. And, you know, we really care about belonging, maybe to a fault, but, like, we try to make sure that there is room for everybody at the table in society and in different processes and in our politics. But if we really take that seriously, like, if we really live up to that—

That means recognizing that some crises around belonging are a big part of why some people, many of whom voted for the other guy this last time, are really prepared to just burn the house down and think that's no worse than any of the other things that could happen.

That means recognizing that some crises around belonging are a big part of why some people, many of whom voted for the other guy this last time, are really prepared to just burn the house down and think that's no worse than any of the other things that could happen.

That means recognizing that some crises around belonging are a big part of why some people, many of whom voted for the other guy this last time, are really prepared to just burn the house down and think that's no worse than any of the other things that could happen.

Yeah, and meaning it. Yeah, yeah. You can't really be persuasive about that unless you actually mean it.

Yeah, and meaning it. Yeah, yeah. You can't really be persuasive about that unless you actually mean it.

Yeah, and meaning it. Yeah, yeah. You can't really be persuasive about that unless you actually mean it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like the key word there is the empathy. Yeah. Right. They're like understanding. So I think you put it really well, like having empathy for parents or students who are in that position, which which is terrifying and belonging to one of the most tiny and and kind of harass minorities there is in the country, but also empathy for people who.

Like the key word there is the empathy. Yeah. Right. They're like understanding. So I think you put it really well, like having empathy for parents or students who are in that position, which which is terrifying and belonging to one of the most tiny and and kind of harass minorities there is in the country, but also empathy for people who.

Like the key word there is the empathy. Yeah. Right. They're like understanding. So I think you put it really well, like having empathy for parents or students who are in that position, which which is terrifying and belonging to one of the most tiny and and kind of harass minorities there is in the country, but also empathy for people who.

sincerely want to make sure that sports are safe and fair and want to make sure that they have uh the the most important say in in what's what's happening in in in deciding what's best for their children like that these like very human things that if you strip away all the layers of the politics of it um come from a place of very understandable concern and like humanity right there's humanity in both positions and i think that's lost in the dialogue sometimes

sincerely want to make sure that sports are safe and fair and want to make sure that they have uh the the most important say in in what's what's happening in in in deciding what's best for their children like that these like very human things that if you strip away all the layers of the politics of it um come from a place of very understandable concern and like humanity right there's humanity in both positions and i think that's lost in the dialogue sometimes

sincerely want to make sure that sports are safe and fair and want to make sure that they have uh the the most important say in in what's what's happening in in in deciding what's best for their children like that these like very human things that if you strip away all the layers of the politics of it um come from a place of very understandable concern and like humanity right there's humanity in both positions and i think that's lost in the dialogue sometimes