Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the BOF podcast.

This week, we're going back to Voices 2018.

Joshua Graham Lynn is the co-founder and creative director of Represent Us, a bipartisan campaign of conservatives, moderates, and progressives working together to stop

political bribery and secret money and fix broken elections in the United States. We all know

that something is not working in the highly polarized politics of the United States, divided by

left and right, rural and urban, and rich and poor.

So here's Joshua Graham Lynn to talk to us about,

if democracy is broken, how can we fix it?

So United States politics, I think we all agree, is a little bit of a mess right now.

And part of it is because of this kindergarten level of political discourse that we've arrived at, where you're either right or you're wrong, there's no in between.

But rather than talk so much about either specifically how he got elected or what led

to that moment or whether he's actually the problem, what I want to talk with you guys a little bit more about is

what is the landscape that allowed this to even happen?

Because I think that gets overlooked.

And so, first of all, a lot of people don't realize

that he was one of the two least popular candidates

ever to run for president in the United States.

So somehow through this whole process,

we ended up with the least popular candidates that we could have throughout history. And what is that about? Is it a reaction

to this crash in 2008 where the executives responsible weren't held to account? Is it the

40 years of stagnant wage growth for low and middle income earners? Perhaps that's what's

leading to now in America, only 4% of

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