... SO, AS YOU JUST NOTED, OUR BOOK IS CALLED "THE POLITICS INDUSTRY," AND WE LOOK AT POLITICS, NOT GOVERNMENT, BUT POLITICS, THE COMPETITION BETWEEN POLITICIANS, AND ALL OF THE SURROUNDING ACTORS, AS AN INDUSTRY, NOT BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN LOOK AT IT, BUT BECAUSE IT'S SUPER HELPFUL TO LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, WHICH IS TO SAY WE, AS AMERICANS, ARE VERY USED TO BEING CONSUMERS. WE'RE USED TO BEING CUSTOMERS. BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE USED TO THINKING ABOUT HOW TO GROW THEIR COMPANIES AND GET MORE REVENUE AND MORE GROWTH FOR THEIR COMPANIES, ETC. SO, WHEN WE LOOK AT POLITICS AS AN INDUSTRY, IT HELPS US, EITHER AS CUSTOMERS OR AS BUSINESS LEADERS, TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S SO DYSFUNCTIONAL. I'LL JUST GIVE A HINT AT IT. WHAT WE LOOK AT THE INTEREST, THE PUBLIC INTEREST, THE CITIZEN, IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT CUSTOMER. AND POLITICS IS NOT BROKEN. IT'S ACTUALLY WORKING EXACTLY HOW IT'S DESIGNED TO WORK. BUT IN THE POLITICS INDUSTRY, WHEN WE LOOK UNDERNEATH THE HOOD, THE POLITICS INDUSTRY HAS NOT BEEN DESIGNED TO PUT THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND SELLING PROBLEMS FOR CITIZENS. IT'S BEEN DESIGNED TO PUT THE INTERESTS IN THE POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL THESE POLITICIANS AND THE LOBBYISTS AND THE CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS IN THE MEDIA, EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS, WE CALL IT THE POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. THE HISTORY HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO PUT THEM FIRST. AND WHAT WE SEE IS, THAT'S WORKING. IT'S WORKING SUPER WELL. WE DON'T EVEN NEED THE AVERAGE VIEWER OF THIS TO LOOK AT STATISTICS. THEY CAN JUST LOOK AT IT FOR A MOMENT. YEA, YOU KNOW, TOTALLY MAKES SENSE. WE CAN SEE ALL THE TIME WASHINGTON, D.C. IS THRIVING. THERE'S MORE COMMERCIALS. IT SEEMS EVERYBODY HAS MORE POWERFUL AND MORE MONEY AND MORE, MORE, MORE. BUT, II, THE CUSTOMER, THE VOTER, ARE SUPER DISSATISFIED. HOW IS THAT RIGHT? AND SO, BY AGAIN, LOOKING AT IT AS AN INDUSTRY, WE EXPLAIN WHAT'S GONE WRONG. BUT THE PURPOSE FOR THAT EXPLANATION IS SOLELY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE IN THAT DYSFUNCTIONAL DESIGN COULD WE INTERVENE TO CHANGE THE DYNAMICS SO THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST BECOMES THE MOST IMPORTANT CUSTOMER? AND THAT'S WHAT WE ASK OURSELVES. WE ANALYZE, WE DIAGNOSE, AND WE ESSENTIALLY PRESCRIBED BECAUSE WE CAN NOW IDENTIFY THE MOST POWERFUL CHANGES WE COULD MAKE. ...
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