It's Not Left or Right, It's Up or Down

"on one of Joe Biden's final addresses as president, he warned of the possibility of a new oligarchy forming with the incoming Trump administration."

"And until you break that situation and that system and give people a way to run for office where they don't have to rely on money that comes with strings attached, you're just going to keep getting roughly the same system that you have."

"I do think that the government so obviously brazenly and without shame embracing the oligarchy that we now have uh creates the conditions for a potential backlash."

"The chances that one day the Sackler family might have the same historical reputation are not zero."

"I think that's going to be the first phase. People are demoralized. They're upset. But then what comes out of that is action, real action to really re-engage."

"I do think there there are we are entering a really chaotic time. Uh and with every cha chaotic crisis, there are opportunities. Uh and so I think there are real opportunities to take uh the discontent right now uh and turn it into something positive."

"there are already signs that this will resurface again."

"I think it's going to go in weird ways. I I think you're going to see more ballot measures uh good and bad. I think you're going to see uh a push and pull in politics. It'll swing back and forth."

"People are going to get so frustrated with the economic situation, with the social situation, with the ways that billionaires are positioned in this country, and you're going to see more of an interest in um political lobbying. You're going to see more of an interest in activism because you do have like there's a certain point, there's a threshold, right?"