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Political animals (with Leah Garcés)
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Are We All Part of a System?
I think there's a real relief in being able to see things as systems too for exactly the reason you're discussing here. So I'm writing a book about politics and a big part of that book is understanding politics as a system, not as a collection of individuals. People make the decisions and make the compromises, the system incentivizes them to make. A lot of good people are just in a good system. And a lot of people making decisions we don't like are reasonable people trapped in a bad system. It can sometimes be a helpful way of demoralizing an issue to recognize that if you could change the system around people, then these very same people make very different choices. There's
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