Are Our Best Days Behind Us?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Both parties are upside down by quite a bit. It's
basically a tie. So we'll call it sixteen points. Both
parties are upside down by sixteen points in terms of
a positive feeling or a negative feeling. Both parties at
least three equal. I mean, it's actually seventeen for Democrats
fifteen for Republicans, but it's within the margin, Barris, so
let's call it sixteen. But both of them pretty good,

(00:22):
solidly upside down, more people disliking than liking. So I
don't know what you do with that information. Uh, same
with uh, both both presidents, both vice presidents, current and
the most recent. What I'd love to see is perception
of the Republican Party among Republicans, Democratic Party among Democrats. Right,

(00:43):
but this is a big picture. We're going big picture.
We're uh, we're at sevent of the country says we're
on the wrong track. It has been that, as Chuck
Toud pointed out on Meet the Prece yester date now
for over a year. That is by far the longest
streak of being over seventy since Meet the Press, which

(01:04):
is the longest running show in the history of television. Uh,
it's been over seventy of Americans think we're on the
wrong track for over a year, which is a record.
Also a record best years are behind us at fifty
eight percent our best years as a country to come
or behind us record high percent of Americans they are
best years behind us. I think I'm in that category.

(01:25):
Are if you have to pick one, which do you pick?
Behind us? Our ahead of us, behind us? And I'll
tell you why. Summer domestic politics, this stuff we rant
and rape about all the time. I won't go through
the list. Ever since the women got the vote, I've
felt that way. Oh boy, oh we had to go there.
Uh you know, I was actually thinking about this A
great deal is I was reading about various geopolitical conflicts

(01:47):
and thinking about what is it the Thoughclidean trap or
something with the rising power and the great power and
they gotta fight. I thought, BOYD had the preceding thirty
years was a weird blip in history. Yeah, we're our
empire was was mostly peaceful, incredibly prosperous, A little blippertwo there,
and they're unchallenged essentially for supremacy and a good times

(02:11):
and it happens. I mean, so I'm a cheerleader. I
love the country. I'm a cheerleader, and I'm a mostly
optimistic big picture most of the time. Small picture, I'm
very pestimistic. Big picture, I tend to be optimistic. But
um uh, it happens. It's in nineteen I don't know,
pick the right year, nineteen thirty eight. If you're a
Britain sadn know. I think our best years ahead of us.

(02:33):
It doesn't make you. That makes you a dunce, doesn't
make you some sort of leader, right right, Well, you
know in many ways speaking of aging in the summer,
sweet summer, departing, Uh, my best days are behind me
in a lot of regards. Maybe not, that's clear all
of them. That's clearly true. But what am I gonna do?

(02:55):
Put my head in the new snow. I'm gonna make
the best of what I got. Uh. That's funny if
you bring it back to your own person. Yeah, are
your best days? Well, it depends on what you mean.
I got a few more bucks to go out to
eat if I want, which is nice. But you know
I used to be young and handsome and study. As
far as you know, those days are gone. Let's face it,

(03:19):
this is so depressing fro