“One of the things that we are suffering from in this particular moment is the conversion of wealth, that is the things that make a life worth living, you know, family, church, if that's your thing, open spaces, time with friends, education, libraries, whatever, that that is essentially being turned into cash. And that, you know, we're liquidating it and turning it into cash and then giving it to a very few people.”

…produce much that the rest of us care about. And that's overstated, of course. But there does seem to be an extraordinary divorce right now between the stock market and the companies that are hot and what the American people actually need and the companies that are providing that. Is that unfair?

…people feel good about America. So if you're a brand appealing to people our age, if it's insurance or, you know, CPAP or MyPillow Guy, yeah, wrap yourself in the flag. Younger people, not so much. I don't know if going to the kind of America well is the right thing for them to do right now.

Yeah, I like that. And just going back to this notion about American branding, I just spent time in Northern Europe, and my takeaway there is, and I just think it's such an important lesson, is that we need to settle the argument. And I think Sweden and I was just in the Netherlands settle it. You…

Isn't that by definition that they can peacefully coexist? Because if, in fact, you create a healthy, educated workforce, they're able to innovate and do better work. And that's actually how it works. I think you can make an argument that this idea of deliberately creating an undereducated…

So we'll do one more question here. Kristen says or asks: 80 million eligible voters, 80 million eligible voters did not vote in the last presidential election. How can we foment some sort of meaningful change here?