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All right so Sydney thank you so

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much for being here.

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So let's just start off really easy.

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Tell me about yourselves.

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Yeah, I'm

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an incoming junior at UW-Milwaukee.

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My major is political science and

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I'm a minor in economics.

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And you are the Vice Chair of

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College Dems? Yes.

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Yes, I am.

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And what do you do for college kids?

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Basically, really we're just

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trying to get people involved

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and that really is like

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the format of like meetings,

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weekly emails, and also

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just like general outreach during

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like tabling.

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And what got you into politics?

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Well, it really kind of started with

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my familial background, I would say.

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My parents are both very,

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very interested in politics,

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especially democratic politics in

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Milwaukee.

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My dad was a part of the labor

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union. My mom, she's a

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professor.

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importance of

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getting involved in taking

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that personal right of civic duty.

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And you told me a little bit earlier

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that you actually had, like,

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gone out and been active in politics

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from a young age. What was that

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about?

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my dad, big Obama

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fan, probably the biggest Obama

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fan I've ever met.

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He was a big fan in

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2008 and then once me

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and my sister got a little bit older

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in 2012, we were really

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able to go out in canvas and

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door knock and I was like six.

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So I don't really remember, I

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remember being extremely cold,

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but also I remember the the

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importance of it and how you know,

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we were doing that and then he ended

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up being elected.

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And in my mind as a kid, I was like,

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I did that, you know.

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I was the one who allowed him

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to be there.

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But also it was just kind of

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the feeling of, you know, I can

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make a change here.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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And so you're a young

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person, right?

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I've been told.

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So as a young person

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that's engaged in politics, tell me

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what what are you experiencing

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as a challenge right

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now?

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the biggest challenge is

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lot of young people don't

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think that the older people

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in office are seeing eye to eye with

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us and whether that's you know

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rising tuition costs,

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rising cost of living.

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you know hourly pay jobs,

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not a lot a us have salary

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positions. So, that

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can kind of bring

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a few...

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Monetary issues when it comes

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to, you know, paying for gas that's

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over $4 or paying

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for groceries like basic necessities

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that aren't as

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cheap as it used to be.

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take on this responsibility of

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getting more than one job plus

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balancing, you know just being

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young and also balancing school

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and life and family life.

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It's just all kind of becoming.

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more about, like,

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old people not understanding.

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Do you feel like that's something

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that's, like part of the parties

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right now, or part of the current

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wave of politics, that there's, you

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know, like this sort of divide

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between old people and younger

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people?

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I mean, like, you kind of see this

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a lot throughout history.

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I think a lot when I think about it

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is the 1970s

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when women were fighting for

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reproductive justice.

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didn't think that older people saw

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what they saw as, you

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know, abortion being this right.

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time, older

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people maybe just want to

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keep things the way that they are,

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and young people are a lot more

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progressive.

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then it tends to flat line a lot of

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our like big issues.

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just not a lot through line,

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but like there sometimes is.

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tell me about the coll...

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Obviously you're a Democrat, right?

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Yes! So what about the Democratic

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these concerns for young people?

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better way of being

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progressive, you know.

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Republican Party wants to

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go back and

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wants to kind

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of end and cut all these

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things that really have been

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really productive for a lot groups,

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you know, whether that's

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stamp benefits, EBT, you

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now, they were cutting funding for

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that which has helped so many

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people, especially in my city of

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Milwaukee.

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And, yeah, I'm sorry,

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I don't wanna end that.

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That's fine. Do you want us to try

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that over? Yeah, for sure.

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What was the question again?

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Sorry. The question was, what about

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the Democratic Party do you think

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are addressing young people's needs?

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I guess, I think the Republican

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progressive, especially when it

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comes to issues like stamps and

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EBT, you know, and I

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think, like I said before, younger

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people are just a lot more of

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a progressive group.

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They want to see things change,

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and the Democratic Party,

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while maybe sometimes

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their policies

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may be a little bit progressive

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for some.

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I just think that they have a really

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good job of understanding that

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the world needs to change, and it

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needs to progress forward.

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okay to

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have a little bit of progression and

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to have that disconnect

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with another side so

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you can get what you want at the

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Yeah, yeah.

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And so we were talking on the phone

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last week about sort of the gender

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divide in politics.

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I want to get your thoughts on that

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Do you think it's one party is

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pushing one gender away?

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more gender? What do you think is

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going on there?

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overstating the issues

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of one gender because

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of progression.

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men had this

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very secure position in

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society, whether that's in the home

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being the bread winner, whether

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that's economics being the

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smarter person.

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has really pushed women out

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of this kind of hole.

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the ones that, you know

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understand that you

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know life isn't just a man's

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job, it's also a woman's job and

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uh... You know when you think about

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want to make men

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out to be the minority

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group, when it's very

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much not that.

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you do a lot of work in politics,

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but outside of that, have you

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experienced any of that kind of

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tension in your daily life at all?

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I think that I'm

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very fortunate to be a part and

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be around many people that don't

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just see me as a woman

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or doesn't just the historical

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notion that women have had.

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do understand the importance of

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a woman and really does understand

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the important of equality and

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equity.

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earlier today that it had a really

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interesting framing on this.

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It said like, yeah, men are

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doing, you know, worse politically

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maybe, but like, or

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no, sorry, I got that back.

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as good as they used to, like

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they're not getting.

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women are, and they're not maybe

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getting as many jobs as women are,

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but women are doing worse

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politically, right? You had like the

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Me Too movement,

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Dobbs, right, like Hillary

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and Kamala, they both ran

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and they didn't get the presidency.

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Do you think that sort of

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helps even divide, or do you think

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sort of like a symptom?

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What are your thoughts on that?

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probably deep in the divide

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across party lines,

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but I think within the party it

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really did just make us more closer

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and it really made us understand

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that we have a lot more to fight

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for other than just

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fighting against Republicans.

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We have to strengthen the

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base so that we can be able to

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take on people like Donald Trump.

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I think that, totally.

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So moving away from gender,

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another stat that I saw was that

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young people are more independent

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and outside of the parties.

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They're still obviously voting

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within the party because like, we

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only have two.

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But you know,

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what do you make sense of that?

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Do you think people are upset with

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the parties? Do you just think people

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want new ideas?

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Why do you think our generation is

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so independent?

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Well I think, you know,

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I think a lot of the times like you

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said you know I think there's a lot

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of anger within Democrats because

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a lot of people just see

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Democrats losing everywhere.

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You know we lost or

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I guess Kamala lost you

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know in 2020 or 2024

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and then Hillary lost in

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2016 like you said and

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I think a lot of the time it just

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doesn't seem like Democrats are

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doing enough for young

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people.

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Even though it's kind of

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hard to get kind

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of that support across

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the aisle so then you can get things

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done.

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But I think a lot of the times like

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young people are just very

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independent and

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allows themselves to think for their

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own and I really admire that.

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Yeah, and so as a young person

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in politics, what do you see other

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young people doing right now that

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you think is great?

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Well, I think a lot of the time

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they're taking, you know,

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their own initiative to

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do the research, to go out,

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to go talk to candidates.

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You know, I thing a lot the time

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what makes young people now very

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unique is that we

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have social media and we have the

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internet to be able to do that

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research and to be really able to

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get an answer for ourselves.

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Neither, yeah.

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And going back to college,

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Democrats, were you

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one of the, I'm

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sorry, I

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misremembered.

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Are you one the founding members of

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UW-Milwaukee?

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I'm not, that was our past

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president, Sydney, no they're

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Sydney, she was

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the founder.

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Okay, but you've been involved since

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more or less the start.

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Yeah. Can you tell me a little bit

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about what you guys have been doing

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to build that up?

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, really, we're just trying

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to just get people interested in

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politics. I think that's really been

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the issue, is getting people,

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you know, interested in, well, why

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would I vote if I feel like nothing

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changes?

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Well, we want to show you what could

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change if someone who we

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don't want office is here, or

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we can show you the changes of what

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we do when we really come together

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and get someone in.

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And I think with college Democrats,

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we were really able to hone in on

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whether that's, you know, tabling

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events, whether that is just...

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Events with different

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people around

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Milwaukee, like aldermen's,

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and we really want to have

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whoever the gubernatorial candidate

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is, we want them to come and speak.

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So we just really want people to

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just really be excited to

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go in so then they'll be more

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inclined to go to the polls, so then

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there'll be inclined to tell their

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friend, hey, you know, go vote,

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or even like, just...

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Walking around with the sticker, you

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know, like we have stickers that we

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give out, we have pins, like,

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we try to make it as

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fun and as lighthearted as

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possible so then we make politics

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a habit.

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Okay, and do

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you have like a specific like a

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success that you from this time that

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you've been with college gems that

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you think you're really proud of?

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Yeah, I think one of the biggest

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successes that we've had was we

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put on a

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candidate forum for

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two of the

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Assembly 19,

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I believe.

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Yeah, sorry, wait can I redo that

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because I completely forgot.

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No yeah, so we were really able

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to, wait sorry,

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thank god. Yeah,

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um, so basically we had

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a candidate forum.

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For Assembly District 19 for

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Ryan Clancy and Bridget Manianchi

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and that's where we invited, you

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know, community leaders, students,

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my mom came, so many

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people came, we had questions and we

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were really able to flesh out these

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candidates and see what they would

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do for us.

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So I think that was really, I'm

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really proud of that because I think

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they had a really good turnout and

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we're really all able to come

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together and.

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Learn about these different

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candidates, even if we didn't know

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anything about them before, we

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really did leave learning something

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important.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And you mentioned it a little bit

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earlier, but I want to know your

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thoughts on social media.

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How do you think that's affected our

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generation, since we've, I've

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had Instagram since like 10, you

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know? Right?

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How do think that has affected us?

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Yeah, I think social

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media has been friend

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and foe, you know friend

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is like you can really look up

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anything and you can get that

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knowledge, you don't have to go to

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a library, you don't need to ask

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someone who's already biased,

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you can go find unbiased

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websites.

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Foe is that a lot of the

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time people can go to the wrong

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places and find that information,

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Like, a lot of people go to TikTok

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for their sources and it's like...

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A lot of time TikTok is just people

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talking to a camera with opinions,

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it's not real backed up knowledge.

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So I think people can

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be misinformed and disinformed

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and you know, there's a lot of

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people out there who want you to

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believe one thing and

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it can be really indoctrinating

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sometimes.

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So it's just

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being able to tell what's

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real and what's not and like,

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obviously social media literacy is

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really important now, you know,

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with AI and...

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You know, internet deepfakes and

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stuff like that.

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So I just think that it's

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been, it's hard

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to juggle.

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Yeah yeah absolutely um

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two more questions for you yeah so

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this is going to air like

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september 25th so way after the

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primary we don't totally

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know who the democratic candidate is

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yet but it's i think at this point

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either going to be Crowley or Hong

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right

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Right?

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They're both not 68-year-olds

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like Tom Tiffany.

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No.

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So my question for you is,

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do you think that has an

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impact? I mean, the last Biden

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was, he was hit on for being

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old. Trump is starting to be hit on

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from old. Lindsey Graham just died.

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What do you, do think the age of

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politicians has an effect on youth

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vote?

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Oh absolutely, I think that

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a lot of the times when

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we see someone

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who's a lot older,

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we just don't feel connected.

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You know, you can talk to your

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grandparent, but you don't really

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feel super connected like they

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understand how you feel.

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And I think having younger

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candidates really does open

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up the pool for us to,

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you know, have greater ideas, you

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now? It's not just people who

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have been informed by the past, it's

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people who are also informed by the

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present and the future,

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and who will be leading the future

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which is Gen Z.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So final question for you.

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You can take your time with this.

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Do you have a message for

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politicians as a young person about

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what you want them to know?

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I have to make this good.

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I have make this really good.

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Take your time.

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Um, ah, let me think.

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I mean, I guess

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mine will be, we're

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here for you just as much as you're

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here for us, you know,

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as much we want to help you get

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somewhere, you also need to help us.

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And I think that a lot of

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young people are helping, you know,

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with the Francesca Hong campaign,

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you know, the David Crowley

548
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campaign, and even with, you

549
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know, Sarah Rodriguez,

550
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who just dropped out.

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I think a lot of the times.

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It's really backed by young people.

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A lot of the biggest movements have

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been backed by the youngest crowds.

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So I just think that we shouldn't

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lose sign on that.

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You know, if it's just not even

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just 19 year old, 20 year olds, 21

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year olds but like 10 year olds 11

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year olds like starting them off

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young.

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You know you shouldn't just allow

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people

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to just cloud your judgment

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especially people who are older.

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You know and I think a lot of times

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We should be really pushing

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towards the future and I think a lot

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of the politicians who I see running

570
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for the governor seat really

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do want young people a part

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of the future.

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And that's what I like to see.

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Any final thoughts, anything you

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feel like we've missed on that you

576
00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,608
really want to say?

577
00:17:23,609 --> 00:17:25,789
Um, vote.

578
00:17:25,790 --> 00:17:26,909
Vote August 11th.

579
00:17:28,490 --> 00:17:29,589
That's what I want to say.

580
00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:31,790
This is going to air September 25th.

581
00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,200
VOTE NOVEMBER!

582
00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:40,259
One last thing before I cut, we've

583
00:17:40,260 --> 00:17:41,559
got to get what we call room tone,

584
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,719
so it's just 20 seconds of the

585
00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:43,979
sounds around us like the air

586
00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:44,879
conditioning a little bit of the

587
00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,139
street helps us smooth out some

588
00:17:46,140 --> 00:17:47,159
audio issues in post.

589
00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:48,160
Yeah, that's fine.