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Why Russia reminds us that America is a force for good

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Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Putin's evil puts things in perspective; Zach gets tips on promoting his new book; and the verdict on the new Batman movie. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m74Dmj-a4mY Longshot: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691584/longshot-by-zach-graumann/ Follow Zach Graumann: https://twitter.com/zach_graumann | https://instagram.com/zachgraumann Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm very, very reluctant to categorize just about anyone as genuinely evil, because in

0:07.4

my experience, there are very, very few evil people.

0:11.3

You know, Vladimir Putin, that's evil.

0:15.2

But you know, just about anyone else who's having an honest disagreement, I don't put

0:20.7

in that category at all.

0:22.3

And one of the symptoms of polarization that we have is that people are willing to cast

0:26.7

their ideological enemies or just some new disagrees with them on something as evil.

0:33.6

And I think that's a disaster.

0:36.8

Like I, you know, I just myself very much not on that page.

0:43.9

And I think that we should try and get as many people away from that page as we can.

0:48.0

Do you think that makes you a better or worse politician?

0:51.0

Probably worse politician, because political figure is like to cast things as complex

0:56.6

between good and evil.

0:57.6

And it's like, hey, you gotta get us the resources we need to defeat evil this one more time.

1:02.8

And if we do this, then all will be well.

1:05.0

I mean, I think that's one reason why the dissatisfaction among Democrats right now is

1:11.1

pronounced is because it was framed as defeat Trump and then all of these incredible, and

1:17.7

then all these incredible things will happen.

1:19.6

Like one of the things that boggles my mind when I hear it, and I hear it all the time,

1:24.2

is when a political figure talks about it's like, hey, if you elect me, we will defeat racism,

1:29.8

defeat sexism, defeat.

1:30.8

And I'm saying, okay, let me get this straight.

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