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“When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.”

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Rainn Wilson

Rainn Wilson, born on January 20, 1966, is an American actor best known for his role as Dwight Schrute in the television series 'The Office'. He gained widespread popularity for his character and has a diverse career that spans stage, television, and film. In addition to his acting, Wilson is also active in social causes, focusing on mental health and environmental issues. more

“The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.”

“So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.”

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