Let's leave aside your position on this particular issue, which for most people will not be a principled position.

It will be very simply, remote, can you pot him down? I'm getting feedback from him.

It will be very simply, does it help me or does it not? And I give an example.

Let's say we talk about affirmative action. And you ask a guy, hey, do you think we should hire, promote, admit, or in any way make selections of people based purely on their race.

And you will get answers that will be like this. Well, no, because I'm white. And you're going to put somebody ahead of me. And I'm being punished because I'm white.

And you might also get, well, yeah, becoming beyond with you. I mean, I'm black. I mean, I'd like to get the job.

Okay, well, neither one of those is the principled answer of this is the system without regard to how it affects me.

This is simply, yeah, if it's good for me, then that's what I want. And if it's bad for me, then change it.

So then we end up with a patchwork of policies based on who has the most power at that moment.

This is the, this is the tribal nature of African politics, where whichever tribe is in power, simply bullies the other and perhaps kills the other.

And so if you're a tutu and you're under attack, you better win the war so you can have complete power, because if you don't, then you're going to be destroyed.

Well, this, this undercuts everything that makes the United States special and unique and, and stable is that the rules, the rule of law is bigger than how you are situated.

If we're going to say, you know what, cocaine is a narcotic and we're going to be crazy about this.

We're going to absolutely, positively throw the book at you.

Okay, we're going to throw the book at you and we're going to punish you for this narcotic because it's the end of the world.

And we don't want people to ever use this narcotic.

All right, and if we catch you with it, that's it, ruining your life.

Okay, you just caught effectively or did everything you do you could do to keep from catching the president's son with cocaine in the White House and you make every excuse.

So there is no rule of law. There is no consistency. That's where we stand.

So now, when you talk about, at City Council, you'd have people come down and they'd go, hey, I'm so-and-so, I own this restaurant.

You like me. Yeah, I like you. You're a great guy.

Well, I'm part of a bicycle group and we want the bicycles to be able to ride just like automobiles.

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