21. The Politics Episode: Hate Doesn't Have a Political Affiliation

This season is about to get political. 

We hadn't planned it this way: it just sort of happened. Almost all the guests we invited this season wanted to talk about socialism, local politics, call-out culture, etc.

So with the media inundating us with political headlines for the next 11 months, we figured it was a good time to record an episode on our political stances as a backdrop for this season. Being generally liberal (though less liberal than some of the guests you'll see this season), we talk about why Trump won in 2016, what we think Democrats and society at large needs to do to stop the "pendulum" that has been pushing us farther and farther to the political poles, and how the increasingly public nature of our lives raises the stakes for both politicians and average people to tiptoe around sensitive issues without being able to say what they really mean.

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

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