Guy Nohra, "Not On Our Watch"

Uh, the warning I wanna say to America is that for the last, for me, maybe 10 years that I've been paying attention, 'cause I started running for office, but even before I was paying attention, we are so polarized right now as a country.

And if anybody's listening, uh, usually your audiences tend to be more sophisticated.

It, it...

Yeah, I'm worried about the people in the middle that just are busy taking their kids to soccer and making sure their grades make, and so on and so forth.

They're not paying attention.

We're so polarized.

I can't think of one issue, Clay, I can't think of one issue you and I can be like right now and not have people on 180 degrees from each other on it.

Um, I've seen, I see the, uh, the rhetoric.

Uh, eh, the, the rhetoric, you, you know, when you...

As the rhetoric increases, I see you less as a human.

So if I'm on social media and I, all day long I read about a certain group, and a rhetoric, and, and, and adjectives that are sent to them, I stop humanizing them.

What happens when I hu- humanize them? It's very easy for someone to help me demonize them.

And when, when I demonize them, what do I do? I kill 'em, 'cause we've gone that far.

Or if somebody tells me to kill, I go kill 'em.

And, you know, w- we've had our shares of awful tries of assas- assassinations and real assassinations.

So that's how it works.

It, it, it, it climbs very, very, uh, uh, insidiously until it becomes dehumanization.

So that's Guy Nohra.

That's me watching, you know, somebody at Starbucks get in a fight 'cause somebody's wearing a MAGA hat or whatever.

That's just, that's what I'm talking about.

But if you go into s- into, into, uh, political science, uh, uh, you know, I c- I can list you four things that are here.

You know, polariza- polarization, politicization, disbelief in all of the institutions.

Have we da- We...

You've seen the data, right? Um, uh, uh, Congress, I don't know, 20, 22%.

Uh, uh, uh, yeah, even less.