Leave Your Bubble, Find Your Country – DTH Episode 330 with Wesley Warshawer
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Wesley Warshawer grew up in Tucson in a house full of difference — different religions, politics, and backgrounds — and never thought much of it. That changed in 2017, when a poll about the American electorate made him realize how disconnected he'd become from half his own country, despite years spent studying and living abroad.
So he did something about it. He sold sold most of his stuff, got in his car, and spent 18 months living and working from towns across red America — Bismarck to Biloxi — asking open questions instead of yes-or-no ones. Instead of “are you for the wall,” he'd ask people to paint him a picture of what fair immigration policy would look like. The answers, again and again, sounded a lot like what he'd hear back home in California.
Wesley and Wilk get into what that means for how divided the country actually is, why ridicule culture — yes, the “crush the libs” and “owned by facts” clips — is doing real damage, and why the fastest way to understand your own country might be to leave your bubble and just start asking questions.
Find Wesley's writing and more about his travels at wesleywarshawer.com.
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