Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Sarah McBride’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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facilitates in the medium and long term a regressive politics look i'm not saying it can't always be effective politics but that you can have effective politics and good politics and better outcomes with an aspirational politics with a politics that isn't just about what it's opposed to but about what it can build and about who we can be
Because I think everyone has sort of this own internal struggle between their own better selves and their better angels and their base instincts.
yet it is the approach and the system that while imperfect is the most likely and most proven to actually lead to the progress that I and I know so many others seek.
Look, people have one life.
And it is completely understandable that a person would feel, I have one life.
And when you ask me to wait, you are asking me to watch my one life pass by without the respect and fairness that I deserve.
And that is too much to ask of anyone.
And that is.
It is our job to demand now in the face of people who say never.
But it's also our job to then not reject the possibility for a better tomorrow as that compromise.
I truly believe that liberalism, that our ability to have conversations across disagreements,
That our ability to recognize that in a pluralistic, diverse democracy, there will be inevitably people and positions that hurt us.
But when you're siloed and when you suppress that opposition underground in that basement, to use your word, they're alone in there.
And not only does that sense of sort of community loneliness breed bitterness,
but it also breeds radicalization.
Liberalism is not only the best mechanism to move forward, but it is also the best mechanism to rein in the worst excesses of your opposition.
Yes, the compromises, you don't get to do everything you want to do, but that is a much better bet
than the alternative, which is what we have developed now, which is an illiberal democracy in so many ways in our body politic.
One where, yes, we might have temporary victories, but as we are seeing right now, those victories can be fleeting and the consequences can be deadly.
and changed.
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