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W. Kamau Bell

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They want more access to health care.

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They want better schools for their kids.

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They want there to be less potholes in the streets.

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but they've been, but, but political parties are weaponizing their differences against them.

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So they think I want the opposite of what that guy wants.

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And you both want, you want, and you've been told if that guy gets what he wants, then that means I get less of what I want when it's like, no, that's not how it actually ever should work, but that's how the political parties.

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So yeah, I would say I was really clear about the division in the country between

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like was planted.

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It's not like a thing that happens naturally.

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It's the thing that is sewn and planted.

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And, and, and then on top of that, the enemy, the, by the last season of the United Shades, I said, I think the enemy of the episode is cap is American capitalism.

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Now, American capitalism encompasses a lot, also encompasses white supremacy and racism and imperialism.

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So it's like, it's all, it's, it's not just, you know, it's not, but that's what adds up to specific.

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And I say American capitalism because other countries do capitalism differently, but,

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But that's how you end up in a situation where like poor white people in Appalachia can vote for the party that actually doesn't care about them.

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But they think this party is protecting tax cuts for rich people.

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And one day my lottery ticket is going to hit and I will be a rich person who will need my taxes protected.

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And you're just like and that's how they do it.

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So I think it's just about weaponizing difference and weaponizing ignorance.