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Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
Zephyr Teachout
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Zephyr Teachout
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 24
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Washington
Zephyr Rain Teachout
Zephyr R. Teachout
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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
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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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There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.
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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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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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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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