It is a false equivalence to treat the Democratic and Republican parties as identical when one is an authoritarian party that seeks to impose a specific national standard for behavior.

“one of these parties and and look, I I I still come as this as an ex-republican. I don't have to agree with everything in the Democratic party. I don't. But I do look at the two parties and one of them is an authoritarian fascist party”

He observes that hypocrisy is a part of the human experience and that individuals often find excuses to justify behaviors they would otherwise condemn.

“do we collectively and each of us individually have any hypocrisies that we live with that you feel like come up a lot or that you find I don't know funny concerning”

He recognizes a personal contradiction between his love for animals and his consumption of meat.

“you would never harm a living creature you would not hunt and kill your own food but you do eat meat you enjoy meat very much love it couldn't live without it so you love animals enough to not hurt them but not enough to not eat them stuff like that like life is filled with stuff like that”

Hypocrisy serves as a window into the modular architecture of the human brain where different systems hold conflicting principles or motivations.

“for me hypocrisy is is kind of like a window into the very deep architecture where the brain isn't just one big mushy thing it's actually a lot of different parts and you get have one bit that you know has a particular principle or a moral commitment and then you could have another system that acts ”