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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
Zephyr Teachout
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Zephyr Teachout
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 24
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You can't just provide power, you also need public education.
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
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I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, You are out of power because of big government. Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, No, you're wrong, you're not out of power. It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.
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What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.
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If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.
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People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
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There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.
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I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
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It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.
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New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.
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Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.
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Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.
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