lose, and there are a whole host of lessons, the value of a dollar, what it s like to punch a clock, et cetera, et cetera, but human interaction at a time when too many are blind closed doors on social media, including with adults, can you quickly speak to that? i always say if you are working for the summer, try to get a job where you re talking to people. ic think of three examples. one would be if there s a golf course nearby, public or private, they re always looking for cad dies, and these kids wok really really hard, and they re talking to the people playing golf, and they re getting advice, and learning how to, you know, they re getting that emotional intelligence by talking to these folks. another job that s great is working in a restaurant or behind a bar, like you don t have to be 21 to work in a restaurant. there s a role that my son did called being a bar back, where he was just basically refilling glasses, putting ice and
(ambience of room, crickets, scrolling content on phone) they re off from school, but not really home. images and videos. social media, fine-tuned to suck them in. and steal them away. alone you can t stop it. together we will. join us. ( ) wherever you go. wherever you stay. all you need is one key.
assertive figure so they re not as inclined as they were with previous presidents to give him credit when things turn around in the economy the way they are doing right now. the bigger factors are systemic, as you said, the polarization we have. we get news that reaffirm what is we believe, and it s hard to break out of that. i don t think joe biden is going to do it, but i don t think anyone else could do it either. thank you, andrew. i appreciate your time and the piece you wrote, and to andrew s last point, i can t think of anybody on the stage when the republicans debate on august 23rd or among any of the democratic candidates, i just can t see anybody who conceivably is going to have an approval rating of what, i don t know, 60 what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media, i ll read some throughout the course of the program. what do we have, katherine, from the world of twitter. stop procting him every minute and hiding his lies and refusing to do investigation. are you kid
cluding social media. this is hard to believe. as recently as 1984, ronald reagan won 49 of 50 stat against walter mondale. mondale carried only his home state of minnesota. in 1972, richard nixon won 49 states. george mcgoverns had not even his home state of south dakota. our elections are decided by a half dozen swing states, everything else locked in and predetermined, not only that, we re increasingly living among the like minded. consider this, most people in america live in an area that was one handily by one presidential candidate in the last election. there are roughly 3,100 u.s. counties. in 1980, there were only 391 that were won by 20 or more points, a landslide. by 202 that number hadrown to 1,726.