been better than. this we are portraying things as if it s never been worse. all of these identity issues isn t of being weaponized for i think purely political purposes. ainsley: what do you think about folks that might disagree with some progressive issues? well, i think the whole thing about this is that we have become very bad at thinking about any of these things because they have become an incredible dereks in our society about thinking. particularly about speaking. thinking out loud. as a result, a whole load of bad ideas come into the system. we just had one in recent days where the pop singer sam smith has said that he has come out as what he called nonbinary. having previously come out as said called gender queer. he doesn t know what any of this means. none of us do. it doesn t mean anything. but he is demanding that everyone changes the language they use. and the bbc and the u.k. and others have done that they have said they instead of he. and nobody is allowed to say