Trita Parsi

Yes.

I have to say, you know, I'm very skeptical about the two-party system when you have a public in which the spectrum of views are as wide as they are right now.

Yes.

If this was a European parliamentary system, I'm not saying it's superior in all ways, in any way, shape or form,

But these two parties would at least have been five or six parties.

And many of them would actually have been able to work much better together because they were in different parties.

But now you put so many different views in the same party and they're supposed to have one line.

It just creates all of this internal infighting.

And it also shoots out, pushes out a huge amount of the spectrum that the American public holds today.

There's a reason why young people don't watch mainstream media any longer.

They don't trust it.

But it also is a very narrow set of views that are constantly being presented there.

And those narrow views do not represent the majority of America.

And they're so intertwined by the way.

Yeah, it may be because I haven't spent enough time thinking about it.

I might be as skeptical or cynical or just pessimistic about the situation.

I do, I mean, I've said it before, in order to be able to make any change, you have to have a degree of irrational optimism.

If you're entirely rational about the processes, there's no way you're going to be able to succeed.

You have to believe further.

And again, this may be a case- No, that's really wise.