Sarah Longwell
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But you can see how they get there if you listen to them based on the world that we live in.
So tons of AI, not nearly enough about big tech.
And let me, so I was actually, when I was doing the focus groups specifically on the races for Mikey Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger, in both those races, the AI data centers
were a huge issue.
It came up all the time because people know how much water they're using.
They know that they're raising their energy prices.
Again, it's an economic issue for them.
They're like, hey, it's getting more expensive for me.
And both of them made them parts of their campaigns like they were addressing it because it's clearly something they're hearing from voters all the time.
But on the other thing, on the tech oligarchs, and I also talk about this in the book, and I need you to do me a favor.
Okay.
Go tell all your Democratic friends that they keep doing this thing where they're like, big corporations, they're the bad guys.
I'm like, can you guys just like, okay, I'm not here to talk you out of this.
Narrow it.
could you please just really focus on the big tech oligarchs?
Because they are both becoming outrageously wealthy at the expense of the health, both mental and physical, of the American people.
They are taking two of our dominant human emotions, fear and anger, and they are algorithmically, for their own profit and to keep us on those things, they are making us want to hate each other.
They are the
in many cases, or they're the platforms that deliver the poison and try and keep you there.
And like Elon Musk should be an enemy that we name.