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episode was recorded June 15th. Our lives are in fact held up by this invisible scaffolding,

and there's all these stories underneath that we're going to pull out and show to the audience.

That's part of it. That's sort of like the candy part of it. And then the vegetables part of it

is that we live in a time when people have lost faith in their government and they treat their

government like they have a relationship of consumers to their government, where they want the

government to provide them with services and they're angry when they don't receive it.

And we've lost sight of it as a common project that we are all engaged in as a society.

And somewhat with good reason because of the way that the government has been deliberately

eroded by forces working within it and outside of it to reduce that faith.

Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

Do you get the sense these days that feels like lots of things don't work well?

Lots of things are broken or disrupted and that is frustrating and a bummer.

And I think it's easy in these times to lose sight of all the things that do work or things that

are running in the background. And that was something that I think the pandemic because it was such

a severe disruption, it did remind us of all of the like processes that function underneath our

normal life. Some of those are market processes, right? So we don't think about the supply chain for

toilet paper, the daily thing. It just sort of happens in the background. There's, I don't know,

someone makes toilet paper, someone buys it, someone ships it, shows up in the store,

are you buy it, right? But it turns out that if you disrupt that supply chain that you have

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