Benita Conde and John Marklin
Recorded
December 1, 2022
50:56 minutes
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ddv002216
Description
One Small Step conversation partners Benita Conde (47) and John Marklin (67) exchange their lived experiences. They connect on the parallels in their seemingly disparate political journeys, voting as independents outside of parties that have disappointed them, and John shares about how January 6th changed his life.Subject Log / Time Code
John (J) and Benita (B) talk about transformational moments and John shares about January 6th changing his life.
B shares why she believes her life in the arts and a wide variety of friends influenced her parents' politics changing in the last 15 years.
B speaks to her experience observing predatory capitalism in the advertising field. She shares how getting sober and finding spirituality and idealism brought her to look for candidates who lift up as many people as possible.
J talks about the need for a two-party system, thinking issues through, and political parties being too "dug in" to their beliefs.
B reflects on their commonalities, the parallels in their political journeys, and how this is happening in so many places but it is not getting platformed.
Participants
- Benita Conde
- John Marklin