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And I think the the dislike of and
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anguish over social media is just
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growing and growing and growing. Uh and
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it's part of our problem particularly in
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uh in terms of building consensus around
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any issue. It's really hard to govern
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today. You can't you you know there's no
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the referees we used to have to
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determine what's a fact and what isn't a
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fact have kind of you know been
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eviscerated to a certain degree.
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and um people go and that people self-
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select where they go for their news or
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for their information and then you just
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get into a vicious cycle. So it's really
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really hard much harder to build
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consensus today than at any time in the
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4550 years I've been involved in this
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and and you know there's a lot of
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discussion now about how you curb
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uh in order to guarantee that you're
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going to have you know some
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accountability on facts etc. But look,
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if people go to only one source and the
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source they go to is sick
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and uh you know has an agenda and
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they're putting out disinformation
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uh our first amendment stands as a major
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block to the ability to be able to just
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you know hammer it out of existence. So
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what you need, what we need is to is to
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win the ground, win the right to govern
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by hopefully having, you know, winning
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enough votes that you're free to be able
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to to uh implement change. Uh now
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obviously there are some people in our
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country who are prepared to implement
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change in other ways and that's
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questioning really if democracy can
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media. I think democracies are are very
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challenged right now and have not proven
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they can move fast enough or big enough
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to deal with the challenges that we are
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facing. And to me, that is part of what
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this race, this this election is all
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about. Will we break the fever in the
