Nonetheless, you can see the appeal of it for two formerly big national parties that are now shriveling up and want to get those votes back or want to keep from being swept away, you know. Well, of course I can. It's just such a violation of the core principle of a democracy that I just don't think you, you know, either you have to change the name of the system, it's just, you know, it's an autocracy run by people with power and everyone else shuts up or you have to stop doing that. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean, you, well, you have, you know, you have, you've interviewed Callan Giorgescu on this, on this show. (39:18–39:34)
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