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When you're out there in america, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. the direction from the top, from the president, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.
-George Saunders
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When You're Out There In America, Meeting

George Saunders
When you're out there in america, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. the direction from the top, from the president, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.
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