Why only the rich run for office: Part 2

Here is the second half of a very interrupted interview I did about who runs for office in the United States – and who needs to. (The first part can be found here.) It's a good book, and a good conversation. I hope you enjoy it! (And I hope you run for office!)

Why We Don’t Have Working Class Politicians, w/Prof. Nicholas Carnes: Part 2 - The Best of All Worlds

In this second half our conversation, Prof. Carnes and I talk about his experience running a candidate training workshop, and what people say they want in a politician. We also talk about my research, which begins to points the way towards identif…

Buzzsprout

Coming up

First, there was the goal. Then there was the research. Then there was the movement, based on the research.

And now – without pay, without funding, without institutional support or recognition or resources of any kind – comes the next phase of The Plan.

As the Republican party systematically attempts to strip data, and science, and simple realities, and observable truths from our lives, we cannot simply resist. We must rebuild, even faster and even more ambitiously than they destroy. So amidst the piling wreckage – that's what I'm working on doing.

And I'll talk about it more, very soon.