00:00Globalization created situations where numbers of people were suddenly becoming the losers
00:06in the changes that were being made.
00:08I think people look at the world through the lens of their experience and their experiences
00:12are really very different.
00:14People who live on the coast or major cities basically all share the same cosmopolitan
00:21values.
00:22This is the group that is often misleadingly called coastal elites.
00:26And suddenly you're no longer surrounded by people who are different from you.
00:32People who spend their lives in the major cities of the world, the concentration of
00:37wealth and innovation, don't have much idea what's going on in Kansas and Nebraska and
00:43the like.
00:44So you get not just an economic division across these different places, but you get a cultural
00:50division.
00:51And it has to be apparent to people throughout our society that the people who run our institutions
00:55and have a lot of power and money in American life care about their situation and are trying
00:59to help them.
01:00That's not apparent enough nowadays in America.
01:02They start to see these coastal elites as people who aren't concerned with real Americans,
01:09people who are basically out of touch.
01:11And that might mean that all of these different factions are now being fused into two giant
01:16factions.
01:17But everybody in the country starts to see themselves as a Democrat or a Republican and
01:20to think that if my side loses, if the other side wins, that is the end of days.
01:26That is the big danger.
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