Hello and welcome to another episode of I Wei with Jamila Jamil.

Now I know that we normally stick to mental health issues, but when it comes to politics,

specifically what's happening in the United States of America, it feels adjacent to mental health

given that the outcome of this election will significantly impact how everyone is going to

feel. And so whether you're in the United States or not, I think a lot of us are very interested because the leader of the USA,

chosen in November, is going to have a massive knock-on effect across the entire world and also across the media and

social media and I don't know about you but I'm finding the discourse very splintered and

very divisive and it just tends to be a bit of a cluster fuck of divided opinions and people on the left

can't agree with each other and people on the right can't agree with each other and

centrist arguing with each other and there's so many barking opinions online and very few of those opinions are held by

people who actually know exactly what they're talking about and it's very rare that they speak with

full context and history and it's very very rare that people zoom out and

look at the bigger picture. It is a crisis of this generation the way that we focus on

just the now and while I see why that's beneficial because then we put pressure on the right people,

it also means that we just don't seem to have a fucking plan.

We don't have a cohesive plan that we can all generally agree on.

And when it comes to the presidential nominee, there is obviously for the liberals,

there is obviously a lot of uproar because she's not everyone's ideal favorite candidate,

but people are so focused on what's wrong with her that they're forgetting

to focus on what's wrong with the opposition.

And so in today's episode, I wanted to invite on an expert who's so much smarter than me who's got so much

experience in not only understanding American law and also understanding American

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