A large cohort of right leaning republican, slash conservative. Seems like they're divided. Ye, let's let your brethren and fathers be a stand in for a lot of people represent cause. I find batling that why any republicaor conservative would think trump is a republican or conservative. He doesn't. And the people like my brother are just so motivated against liberals that it almost doesn't matter what trump is for. My dad is a believer in those conspiracies. But if i believe with them, if i agree with about 99 out of a hundred issues, but the one issue to me is the integrity of this democracy. Because this whole thing only works if we are able to engage
Shermer speaks with Ravi Gupta, the Founder and CEO of Lost Debate, a new non-profit media company that launched in October 2021 to fight polarization and misinformation online. The company has seed funding of over $7 million dollars, with the largest investment coming from Netflix founder Reed Hastings. Before launching Lost Debate, Ravi founded Arena, where he led a team that helped elect over a hundred candidates and launched the largest campaign staffer training academy in the history of the Democratic Party — an effort that’s trained over 2500 political operatives over the past three years. He was a critical leader in Democrats’ efforts to retake the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 and numerous state houses, including the New York State Senate and Virginia House of Delegates.
Shermer and Gupta discuss: growing up with a Democrat mother and a Republican father; the rise of polarized politics in association with political talk radio, TV, and social media; why Republicans supported (and still support) Trump; what’s in store for our democracy in 2022 and 2024; what it was like working on the Obama campaign from the inside; why freed felons should regain their right to vote after serving their time; education inequality; Joe Rogan, Whoopi Goldberg, and censorship; the moralization motivation behind cancel culture; Critical Race Theory and race relations in America.