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"Trump is the end result of a progressive move to take our party from the center to where it is today. Democrats are going to run head long into what they're seeing with a rejection of their progressive movement and a struggle with the center," Anthony Arnold.

"We have to have a reckoning in this country with our past. But, when you get only 44% of the voters to turn out, you kind of get the government you deserve. I am not one of those to put all of this at the foot of racism. Trump carried counties that Barack carried twice. It's something else and it's just mystifying," Dick Arnold.

"Germany is a really good example of this reckoning with our past. Because of everything that happened with the holocaust, Germans are very aware of their past. So there has been this constant reckoning with its past," Sean Haefeli.

"Our oldest has autism so we have quite a bit of interaction with heath care providers. We've gone around, and around, and around. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, jumping from wait list to waitlist," regarding healthcare, Anthony Arnold.

"I'm a passivist. So, no, I don't own guns...but I agree with people having the right to own them," regarding gun ownership, Alex Krohannon.

"One of the most recent things I learned about is that there is a new resistant strain of HIV, which I didn't think was possible," host, Joshua Hyde

"Our oldest has autism so we have quite a bit of interaction with heath care providers. We've gone around, and around, and around. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, jumping from wait list to waitlist," regarding healthcare, Anthony Arnold.

"I'm a passivist. So, no, I don't own guns...but I agree with people having the right to own them," regarding gun ownership, Alex Krohannon.

"One of the most recent things I learned about is that there is a new resistant strain of HIV, which I didn't think was possible," host, Joshua Hyde

"I think the Republican immigration plan is to make life as miserable as possible for anyone who wants to come here. They just want to sound rhetorically tough and ultimately just kick the can down the road," Anthony Arnold. "The Republican party has descended into a non-fact based party. The rate at which [the president] lies is staggering," Sean Haefeli. "We've been in Afghanistan since 2001 -- so thats 18 years. The poor people there -- it's true, if we were to leave, the Taliban would probably take back control. But what are you going to do? We can't stay forever. But what Trump did in Syria is so arbitrary and and that is wrong and I think that it's going to come back and have a lot of ill effects for us," Dick Arnold."

Dick Arnold: "I was born in Martinsville, Indiana. It was a great place to grow up. We didn't have a lot of money, but their was a lot of love in the family. My father was a democrat but Mom went either way. Now, I was aware of the reputation that Martinsville had and their were certainly some hooligans in town that give rise to that reputation, but most of the folks in the town didn't know any black people. But my mom -- who didn't know any black people either, had a strong sense of right and wrong. I think I got that from her."

Recap with Joshua Hyde:"I don't have a fear of losing my right to bear arms, but we do have to find some sort of space where we can make a true impact on reducing gun violence. We have to change our minds about how we see guns versus the preservation of human life. Again, I don't want the right to bear arms to go away, but I don't want to continue as we are with a rising death rate due to people choosing a gun to solve a problem. Sometimes, we can unknowingly create a context for bad things to happen. I think that we have done that with guns. Now, its time we take responsibility for this."

Recap with Joshua Hyde:"I don't have a fear of losing my right to bear arms, but we do have to find some sort of space where we can make a true impact on reducing gun violence. We have to change our minds about how we see guns versus the preservation of human life. Again, I don't want the right to bear arms to go away, but I don't want to continue as we are with a rising death rate due to people choosing a gun to solve a problem. Sometimes, we can unknowingly create a context for bad things to happen. I think that we have done that with guns. Now, its time we take responsibility for this."

Joshua Scantland: "It's impacted my childhood. I've had multiple family members affected by addiction to opioids -- lost a step mother to addiction and some friends. Now, as a physician I'm seeing it with my patients. Ultimately, that's what drives my concern with this.

'The opioid crisis' is a product of political corruption (opioids are just a classification of drugs. It’s the policies around those drugs and their uses that have come from political corruption).

I want 'nontransparent and unethical campaign' contributions out of politics. That's why I support Bernie Sanders because he wants to get money out of politics."

Joshua Scantland: "It's impacted my childhood. I've had multiple family members affected by addiction to opioids -- lost a step mother to addiction and some friends. Now, as a physician I'm seeing it with my patients. Ultimately, that's what drives my concern with this.

'The opioid crisis' is a product of political corruption (opioids are just a classification of drugs. It’s the policies around those drugs and their uses that have come from political corruption).

I want 'nontransparent and unethical campaign' contributions out of politics. That's why I support Bernie Sanders because he wants to get money out of politics."

Alexis Morgan: "The effects of slavery are still present and hurting our country. Reparations, and I hope that it is more than just money, can be the beginning of healing, becauses it acknowledges a great wrong that has been done. There's never been a resolution to what has happened to black people in America. But I don't think this current administration has to capacity to understand how far-reaching this issue is; but likewise, I don't think the black community is really excited about reparations, either -- and I don't know why."