And amidst this, a diminishing faith in the ideal of democracy, the value of democracy, in part because of its inability to deliver on these material concerns, but also because Amidst being told that there wasn't enough money for so much of this kind of an agenda here, there were billions of dollars being sent for wars abroad. It really stayed with me in that for many of those New Yorkers, and I would argue for, for many Americans across the country, it's not necessarily a question of … (03:22–03:32)
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