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And right now, we're going through Esther.

I had a professor in college, I studied political science, that was one of the things that I went and got a degree in when I was a kid and we had a professor named Gwen was great. She was a lawyer. I think she's still a lawyer.

And she was different than all the other professors at my liberal arts

college she jabbed the bear a lot and she was very comfortable in her own skin

and with her own knowledge and understanding of the world and she knew

she couldn't just do her to force make a bunch of 18 19 and 20 year olds think the

right things so the classes were very sococratic and there's tons of

debate and back and forth and a lot of the debates were very sophomoreic and

super basic things that kids just haven't thought through yet.

I just hadn't thought through those things.

But I wanted to do these Polysai classes with Gwen because I was a thinker.

I was a politically motivated young man who saw the way the world

ought to be and I knew which team was right and which team was wrong from the devil

and I was going to go and argue for that stuff and crush the opposition.

I was very much a political team player all in on my team, like the same way I would

root for the Denver Broncos, I rooted for my political team. I would root for the Denver Broncos I rooted for my political team.

I didn't care about stupid stuff like the rule of law and a bunch of dumb

idiotic procedural things that get in the way of doing what needs to be done.

But Gwen, in our classes, constantly argued that there is a deteriorating phenomenon that occurs when one party gets a little bit of power and then

violates a whole bunch of norms and rules and due processes of law, even tries to jump the boundaries of separation of power within a government,

because eventually the shoes on the other foot.

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