This line really got my attention: I'm skeptical of any possibility of anybody voting themselves out of this trouble (14:18).
Here it is in context:
All over Europe, you see the rise of alternative political movements. Said before and I'll say again, I'm skeptical about any possibility of anybody voting themselves out of this trouble. But the instinct is there. People want political alternative. So you see it all over. You know the Alternative for Germany for example, the AFD, where the response of the regime is to try and make the AFD illegal. You know surveilling its would be candidates and arresting people just for posing, being a threat to the incumbents.So the the trust in the in the political system, not just for me, but for millions, billions of people, is gone. What do people do then if the mechanisms that they've been told to trust are demonstrably useless? What do you get? Well, apart from anything else, you get loss of trust.
I am not sure that Oliver, who I quite like and appreciate, really believes this. He's skeptical. But I for one have absolutely come to believe it. The problems of the United Kingdom and continental Europe will not be solved at the ballot box.
Absolutely not.
And sadly, I will take it a step further with this question: In the United States, can we solve the political differences between left and right at the ballot box?
I am skeptical.