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🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy. |
| 0:07.0 | Meaning all and more of our energy comes from wind farms like this one. |
| 0:14.0 | Guys, what happened to recording that the solar farms? |
| 0:18.0 | To learn more, visit about Amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability. |
| 0:29.8 | David Pacman, welcome to the show. |
| 0:31.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:33.5 | Why do the right keep winning? |
| 0:37.1 | Oof, that's a, there are many answers to that. |
| 0:40.5 | In the United States, there's a few overlapping layers that explain that. |
| 0:47.3 | Number one, I think their ideas are better summed up in tidy and pithy fashion, which we can get into. |
| 0:56.6 | Number two, at the congressional level, gerrymandering, the way that districts are drawn, has been helpful to the Republican |
| 1:04.3 | party, to the extent that the right goes through the Republican Party in the U.S., that's another |
| 1:09.0 | aspect. And then number three, there have been a number of |
| 1:14.7 | different sort of structural realities, including around how media is and has been funded and |
| 1:23.1 | sort of organized in the United States that has also benefited the political right. Now, this is just |
| 1:30.3 | like a 30,000 foot view, a 10,000 meter view, which we can, you know, dig into more in more |
| 1:37.3 | detail, but that's kind of the big picture, as I would put it, of the last 30 or 40 years. |
| 1:43.2 | One of the things 30 or 40 years. |
| 1:49.2 | One of the things that strikes me when reading a book like yours, the echo machine, |
| 1:54.5 | which I'll of course have a link to in the description, is that there is, you spend an entire chapter on this question. |
| 1:55.7 | You know, why is the right winning? |
| 1:57.3 | And if somebody is a conservative voter or a Republican or a MAGA lover and they read your |
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