History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.