There should be mandatory age limits for political officials given the critical impact of their decisions on public life.

“We live in a country where they make air traffic controllers retire when they're 56, or if they're, like, super exceptional, they they can retire at the latest at like 61 years old. but then we're like, yeah, no, but if you're 80,000 years old, you can run the country.”

American society suffers from a collective amnesia that allows politicians to continuously repeat harmful actions without accountability.

“I've had it with our amnesia in this country, right? It's just Americans are like goldfish. We can't remember what happened last week, let alone last month or last year. We just are unable to retain things and so people like Donald Trump are able to just do the craziest, most offensive, criminal thi”

The normalization of extremist views has created a false equivalence where democratic principles are treated as merely one of two valid political options.

“And so, I think what's so devastating about your grievance is that not that long ago, there weren't two sides to the First Amendment. There weren't two sides to the separation of church and state. But because this fringe movement is so cruel and so ambitious and so diabolical all of that priming of ”

The cultural insistence that every political story has two valid sides is inappropriate when fundamental human rights and democracy are being threatened.

“I've had it with this narrative that there are two sides to every story. That there are, you know, we have to hear both sides in this political climate. And my response to that is we can sit and hear about both sides of should we repave this road now? Should we spend money on Christmas lights for th”