How to have a say in how society is built w/ Tessza Udvarhelyi

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  Ted audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Let me tell you one of the most dramatic moments from my time as a middle school student.

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  I had run for and won a seat in student government.

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  I was very happy about that.

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  Now, unfortunately, the student government meetings often happened at the same time as other extracurricular activities that I was already doing.

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  So at the first semester that I was on the student government council, I ended up missing about three meetings over the course of the semester.

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  My friend Ben was also in student government.

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  And while he was reading the bylaws, something that I think no other representative had ever done, he discovered that if anyone missed three or more meetings, there was a provision in the student government that said that the other representatives could hold a vote to impeach that member.

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  And Ben thought that that was a hilarious idea, and so did the other kids on the council.

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  So they held a vote, and they successfully impeached me.

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  I was the first, and to my knowledge, the only 8th grader in my school's history to ever be impeached.

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  I was stunned.

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  But you know what?

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  I was also impressed.

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  You know, I love a good bit.

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  So while that ended my political career right there, it may very well have planted the seeds for my comedy career to begin outside of middle school.

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  One of the big areas where we humans express our views about how we would like the world to be is in politics.

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  And on today's episode, we are going to talk about politics.

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  We're going to talk about political organizing, and we are going to talk about elections and freedom and democracy.

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