The political sphere has become inappropriately fused with the sacred, necessitating a restoration of order to protect the sacred.

“one of the things that's happened, I think, is that the sacred has collapsed into the profane. And so the political has now become sacred. You have to have a space for things that are sacred.”

Societal hopelessness is driven by individuals focusing on differences and faults in others through a politicized and social-media-dominated culture.

“we've gotten to a point where we almost it's easier for us to try to find differences and faults in each other instead of similarities which there we we all hold much more common ground than we do difference.”