The Importance of Optimism

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Sachs: I just think it's the media, both social and mainstream that has just taken us down this terrible path where you do them scroll and you see all the bad things. The default state is most Americans actually get along. And if you met a couple of Republicans and Democrats and independents, religious people,. atheists could all sit and have a piece of pie together and a cup of coffee and have grand old time.

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