I bet you're mad about things right now. I don't know most of you but I hear what

a lot of people are saying right now and at least as I turn on this microphone

and I'm sitting here talking, it is 2020 and in my

country that means it's an election year and election years in particular have been

worse and worse for the last four or five cycles.

Maybe the dam broke in 2000.

I don't know.

It's been bad for a long time.

And it's like what we've done in my country is we've baked in hating long time

is we've baked in hating and mistrusting and despising each other once every four years

at this maximum level and then I don't think the three years fallow time in between her enough for us to

heal up and like each other again and so this mistrust just keeps gaining momentum and this

disgust toward the dangerous repugnant other just keeps

gaining momentum and I hear more and more good people from all different kinds of

political persuasions reaching this point of despair mingled with anger.

There are exceptions and in all of us I think there are exceptions even within each individual.

I don't know anybody who's completely given over to despair and cynicism and anger,

but almost everyone I know feels some degree of anger,

looking at the brokenness of the world, and there's a sense of frustration

with the impotence of our inability to be heard or have other people understand, or to see

things from another in our minds of course better

perspective and I'm old enough to remember 20 years ago there's still being this tone

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