You can't change this system without a mass movement.

Okay, putting yard signs in affluent neighborhoods

is not gonna do it.

And having the president of Harvard University,

you know, the Council of Economic Advisors

is not gonna do it.

Building a mass movement is how you do it.

But you can't have a mass movement if your whole idea is

to establish what a superior individual you are

than everybody else in the world.

If it's all about purity and about,

so the term that I use is the utopia of scolding.

Because that's like Bethesda, that's where I live now.

It's the utopia of scolding.

It's these people who have these gilded lives,

these beautiful lives, they live in these beautiful homes.

They have a swimming pool.

They drive a fancy car, they have a wonderful life.

And their approach to politics is to scold people.

You know, to shake their finger,

it's like, you know, you're wrong about this.

There's something wrong with you.

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