You take somebody my age, born in December of 98. I'm 24. I was I think two years old when 9-11 happened. I was going to middle school when the Great

Recession happened. I was graduating high school when the 2016 presidential election

happened. I graduated college in 2020 when the pandemic hit, the

capital rights happened, and you had the Trump-Biden election, and now it's 2023.

Not a great sample size of democratic progress and growth.

Like that's the...

That's a really fair comment.

When you look at it from that lens, I don't think it's necessarily meant to excuse the skepticism and the critique,

but I think it's meant to demonstrate that if all you know is a house on fire, then there's basically two options.

One you either try to will up and put out the fire, which is what myself and my fellow

young leaders doing, or you escape the house, which is frankly a very understandable notion.

Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a

husband, a father, an entrepreneur, and I've been a football coach in inner city Memphis and the last

part unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. It's called

Undefeded. I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in

nice suits talking big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox, but rather an army of normal folks, us just you and me deciding,

hey, I can help. That's what Manu Meel, the voice we just heard has done.

Manu wasn't planning to dedicate his life to preserving our democracy,

but a riot broke out on his college campus

and he accidentally became a unifying force for all sides.

Today he's trying to unify the country as the CEO of Bridge USA, whose chapters at 50 colleges and 24 high schools create spaces

for students of all stripes to openly and constructively discuss political issues, equipping the next

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