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You Have More Power Than You Realize | Idea Knock Down | TED
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Yeah. Get it. Get be a little more
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aggressive. Get after them.
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>> I mean, I might as well be up for the
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challenge.
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>> Broom. No, seriously.
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[snorts]
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[laughter]
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>> What actually brings people together?
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Oh, I knew you should have gotten this.
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You would just have food.
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>> Food.
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[music]
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>> Hi, I'm Neil Fringlass. I'm the chief
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marketing officer at Visit Philadelphia
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and I believe the [music] success of
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democracy is up to all of us
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participating.
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>> Anush Gupta, president of the welcoming
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center and I believe [music] democracy
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can still work.
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>> Today we're playing idea knockdown. Red
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blocks are rapid fire questions and
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black blocks have questions that go a
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little deeper. Whoever knocks down the
0:46
tower will have to do a mystery
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challenge.
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>> Go for a lower piece. Come on.
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Okay.
0:57
Is debate overrated? Absolutely not. We
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need to understand what other people
1:02
have to say [music] and understand other
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opinions, right? It takes a lot of
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animals to make up a zoo.
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>> We're also not always right.
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>> Yeah.
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>> No. Stop. Okay. There we go. It's like
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I'm talking my dog.
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>> Do you think most people actually want
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to participate? [music]
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I think we're at a point where most
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people feel like there is no benefit to
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participating. If they felt like there
1:29
was a benefit, then the answer would be
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yes.
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>> I I think a lot of people want to
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participate [music] and they they don't
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know how to do it in a way that is
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meaningful. you know, writing letters
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[music] to your your council person, um,
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seeing what's happening in the local
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news and speaking out, rallying
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neighbors together. We we have to
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actively [music]
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uh participate in democracy. It can't be
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passive, otherwise it won't work. Our
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people divided or just [music]
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disconnected? People are certainly
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divided and they're probably divided
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because [music] they are disconnected.
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>> We are just getting further and further
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apart from each other
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>> and we cannot find common ground.
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[music]
2:23
And one of the things that we talk about
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so much, right, if you ask one more
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question, you [music] can begin to find
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that common ground and understand that
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we many of us want the [music] same
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things. That division is just a symptom
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of the disconnection.
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>> Totally agree.
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So, what do I see?
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It's good thing I wasn't a civil
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engineer. [laughter]
2:51
Can young people fix what older
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generations broke? Yes. If they don't
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adopt the same habits of older
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generations and they bring
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their optimism to bear on whatever that
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issue is to allow them to break past
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those practices.
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>> And we've seen proof of that over
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hundreds of years. We talk all the time
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in Philly [music] about this pursuit of
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a more perfect union. And we're doing
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that, right? You and I are a younger
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generation from our parents and trying
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to better it. We're here right now. So,
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I think it is an emphatic yes.
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>> There you go.
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>> Nice. That was easy.
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>> What actually brings people together?
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Oh, I knew you should have gotten this.
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You would have said food.
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>> Food.
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>> Yeah,
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>> food is a huge one that brings people
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together. I think another one is family,
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shared sense of community. Ultimately, I
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think all the things are incredibly
3:52
personal and around people that we know.
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And maybe that's why it's a challenge,
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right? Because as the aperture gets
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wider and you interact with more and
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more people that you don't know, it
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becomes more challenging and you're not
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sure if you have a shared sense of
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values and uh that's when we start to
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put up walls. Maybe
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>> feel like the structural integrity is
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increasingly in question here.
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How do you know if a democracy is
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working? Uh certainly one way is if we
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find solutions, even if they're not
4:31
perfect, to some of our larger, more
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pressing issues. If we can at least find
4:37
a pathway to try and solve it, even if
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the the thing doesn't ultimately work,
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that suggests to me that democracy is
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still working cuz we got a a variety of
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interests to coalesce around a path and
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to say yes, we're going to try this.
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Somebody once told me that a democracy
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is working if we're actively disagreeing
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with each other.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And uh and that really hit home, right?
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If if we're all agreeing, we're probably
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not in a democracy. [music] And the fact
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that we can speak out and we can
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disagree with each other, that's what
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the democratic process is all about.
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>> But so long as that disagreement doesn't
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stop attempts to work together.
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>> Yeah. [laughter]
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>> Oh, I knew one of these had to be easy.
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>> We'll make it harder on you to place
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that. What's one thing [music] people
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have more power over than they realize?
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I do think people have more power over
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what happens in their local community
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than they realize. Every morning when
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I'm walking the dogs, I see something
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and I I email my councilman.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And everybody could do that every single
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day.
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>> Every day.
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>> It's as easy as making that call or
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sending that note to to make change. and
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and and I see people complain more than
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take the action to do it.
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>> I would elevate that exact same dynamic
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[music]
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uh to Capitol Hill. I I can tell you as
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a former uh Capitol Hill staffer, I was
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chief of [music] staff to a member of
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the House. Every week I ask my staff to
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pull [music] a report of the emails, the
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phone calls, the faxes that still come
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in, uh, and handwritten letters [music]
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on any particular issue, bill, letter,
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>> and I would factor that in, particularly
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those that came in from uh, residents in
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the district.
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>> I would factor that in into what bills I
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would put the congressman's name on.
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>> Yeah. All it took was that one
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constituent to draw my attention to it
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and I put the congressman on the bill.
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>> Yeah.
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>> To support it.
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>> It's great.
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>> So actually it it actually still works.
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>> I mean I'll be a little more reckless
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but not completely reckless.
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>> Should voting be mandatory?
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>> Yes.
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>> Yes.
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>> Yeah. Oh man, it's wobbly.
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>> They're giving the people what they
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want. [laughter]
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Is compromise a sign of strength or
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weakness? It's a sign of strength. It's
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a sign that the system is working. We
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have made everything, every position,
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every policy a dogmatic choice. That is
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not the way the system was intended to
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work.
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[laughter]
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Okay. [sighs]
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Is the problem that people don't care or
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they feel like their voice doesn't
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matter? I really think it's that people
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feel like their voice doesn't matter.
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>> Yeah.
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>> You know, I think so many people care
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about their communities, their cities,
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their states, their country. Um, but I
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think they they feel like they don't
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they don't have a voice in anything.
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>> We could look at Philadelphia as a
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microcosm of that. In our lifetime, we
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used to see turnout higher than 70%.
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Yeah.
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>> In elections for mayor in the city of
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Philadelphia.
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>> Yeah.
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>> We're now down to 30%.
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>> Right.
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>> How did that happen in such a short
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period of time? We're not that old.
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>> Yeah.
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>> It happened because people started to
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check out of the system for one reason
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or another. Probably because they feel
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like their issues aren't being
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addressed.
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>> Yeah.
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How do you invite people into civic
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[music] engagement? I think you lower
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the temperature. If you start from the
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position, you're either on one side or
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another of this issue, you have just
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alienated a whole group of people. So, I
8:51
think you can bring you can broaden the
8:53
umbrella and get more people in to have
8:58
conversation by bringing the temperature
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down.
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>> Boom. Oh, no. Seriously.
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Come on.
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Oh gosh. It's going to be you, my
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friend.
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>> It's going to be you. Okay. What is one
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thing [music] worth rebuilding right
9:23
now? I think we need to rebuild our our
9:27
[music] understanding of truth so that
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we can have common ground on what is
9:35
real and true and common ground on
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[music] what is fake and untrue.
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Without that, we we can't ever come
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together.
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Sorry.
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[laughter]
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Is social media good for democracy? N O
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no. Period. I I feel very very strongly
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about that. I think it is one of the
10:00
most destructive forces towards an
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effective democracy I've seen in my
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lifetime.
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>> Yeah. Get it get be a little more
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aggressive. Get after that.
10:13
Well, I mean, I might as well be up for
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the challenge here. See [laughter] if I
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could do it.
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There we go. [laughter]
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[laughter]
10:35
Okay, my challenge
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is
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I need to fly a kite with a stranger.
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Done. Just do this.
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>> Good luck.
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>> All right, guys. I lost a bet. Will you
10:49
help me? You don't. No, you're not
10:50
helpful. No. Okay. Okay. Okay. No
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problem.
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>> He's like, "Honey, look the other way.
10:55
Go past them." That's okay. That's okay.
10:58
You want to help? Oh, you do want to
11:00
help me?
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>> Sure.
11:01
>> She's in. She's in.
11:03
>> Do you notice the breeze like totally
11:04
stopped now that I handed you the kite?
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Okay, ready?
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[laughter]
11:10
>> Do you need to like shoot it up in the
11:12
air? Maybe. Maybe. Do I need tension?
11:14
>> Oh, breeze. Freeze. There's breeze right
11:16
now. There's
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>> I don't know. I don't know which way is
11:18
it going. I don't know. This we're
11:20
doing. [laughter]
11:24
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. YEAH.
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YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. YOU GOT
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IT. YOU GOT IT. YOU GOT IT. YOU GOT IT.
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Did you see that head lift off? That
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head lift off. That That totally counts,
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[laughter] right? Yeah.
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>> You can do it. You can do it. Like,
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yeah.
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[laughter]
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>> I thought you had it.
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>> I don't know.
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>> I thought you had it for a little bit.
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>> Like maybe like that.
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>> Okay. Okay.
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>> Okay. One. We're going to do one more
11:49
time. [laughter]
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>> I think you did it.
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>> We did it. We did it. We tried. That
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That's what counts, right?
11:58
>> We did. We did. This is awesome.
