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Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers.

Zephyr Teachout

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Zephyr Teachout
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 24
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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 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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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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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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A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
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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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I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.
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Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
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Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
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There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.
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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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One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.
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My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.
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People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?
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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.
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I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
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