You'll never get more enjoyment out of disagreeing with someone about politics.

You'll like it even better when you agree with him.

Dan Carlin, Common Sense.

If you really want to make changes to the American system,

you have something that you want to do that's going to fix everything or fix the biggest problems.

How many things do we talk about on this program as being necessary reforms?

Things that we in the United States, but maybe even globally you could talk about reforms that need to be made,

corrections, catch-ups, holes patched.

New avenues for doing things open.

The bigger the problems get and the longer we go without solving them,

the more we kick the can down the road on the tough decisions.

We've talked about all these things many times on the program.

The bigger the problems get, the bigger the solutions get in the harder it is to imagine them actually ever being enacted.

We can hardly get small things sometimes enacted in this country.

The idea of any kind of transformative reform, big enough to help us steer away from the iceberg,

is hard to imagine in our system, but if you were going to do it, you win the presidency.

You say you're going to do A, B and C and you know it's tough.

Where's the decision point?

I mean, where do you have to really win to get what you want in the system?

I think of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sometimes,

because he's a singular example when you look at U.S. presidents.

We've never had one before since like that.

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