Scott Horton

But that is not the case of the population of the country.

It's just the same as here.

Out in the countryside or even in the suburbs, people vote right wing.

And, you know, I'll never forget in July 2005, George W. Bush warned the people of Iran, you better not vote for the right winger in the election tomorrow.

And then the next day they all voted for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

And that was where he came from.

And Bush helped him win.

And it was like widely agreed at the time that he got the Bush bump of five percent when he was, you know, when the people were warned.

And I guess he would have won anyway.

But it's like, yeah, out in the countryside, people are religious.

On the countryside, people are conservative.

On the countryside, people are patriotic.

Out in the countryside, no, they don't favor the North Americans and the fucking Israelis coming and bombing them to liberty.

Are you kidding me?

That is completely stupid.

Think how stupid you got to be to think that, oh, yeah, no, that actually could work.

And I'm pretty sure that that's what's going on here.

And on the exiles, real quick, I'll refer your audience.

You can find this real easily because it's like in a lot of quotable websites and whatever.

They'll have a quote of Machiavelli from the prince warning the prince, do not listen to exiles.