“You notice when you take a little time off how unbelievably stupid most of the
debates you see on television are. They’re completely irrelevant. They mean
nothing. In five years, we won’t even remember that we have them. Trust me as
someone who’s participated,”
“Both political parties and their donors have reached a consensus on what
benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
The United States looks very much like a one-party state,”
“Yet at the same time — and this is the
amazing thing — the undeniably big topics, the
ones that will define our future, get virtually
no discussion at all: war, civil liberties,
emerging science, demographic change, corporate
power, natural resources.
“What was the last time you heard a
legitimate debate about any of those issues?
“It’s been a long time.”
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