I think it's really important to have principled and inspired voices, which Dr. West and Claudia

De La Cruz definitely are, and other lefty candidates very much are. And they're valuable.

They're valuable in the race as well. But I think it's important for people to be strategic

about what is actually going to be a threat,

which is going to make empire quake in its boots and move empire, move its positions,

or replace empire. And I wouldn't rule that out, given the really unprecedented position that Americans are in right now, really the whole

world is in, where the need for deep change has never been so profound, and the possibility

of actually realizing that change has never loomed so large as it is now.

Yeah, I think you're really identifying something very, very true about this political moment

seeming very ripe in opportunity for alternative candidates, for outsider candidates.

Not just because of the state of the world,

but because there's polarization happening online that are not represented by either major parties. So you have a significant group of sort of America first voters who are frustrated

with military spending in Ukraine. There are people who are both America first folks and also who are kind of principled objectors who are frustrated with military spending in Ukraine. There are people who are both America

First folks and also who are kind of principled objectors who are very frustrated about

military spending in Israel that's being used to facilitate what the ICJ has called a plausible

genocide. RFK Jr. for a while seemed to be really capitalizing on a cohort of the public that was very frustrated about COVID-era policy and mixed messaging out of the Biden administration as to what was medically indicated for various interventions, some of which I would argue as more legitimate, some of which wasn't frustrated also about the weird silencing around lab-league origin and whether that could be a plausible theory of the start of COVID.

In addition to being interested in his critique of the CIA and the FBI and Deep Power and all of these kinds of things.

And yet the mainstream candidates have none of that.

Trump, Biden, unity of interest with respect to military spending.

Biden's COVID policies are basically Trump's COVID policies, except for Biden actually

ended the student debt moratorium that Trump had put in place, and on and on and on.

And it does seem to me that the failure of

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