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Unboxing America USE CASE Natalia Freed sat across from her parents at their kitchen table. Her parents looked like they might be wishing they could be somewhere else, but 22-year-old Natalia grinned with excitement. She had been trying to have this conversation with her parents for months now: why she had decided to start calling herself a democratic-socialist. Her parents, both lifelong Democrats, had been surprisingly dismissive of her decision, attributing it to a youthful phase. That was why she had ordered the box that lay before them, with the words DEMOCRATIC-SOCIALISM printed prominently on the top. It came from Unboxing America, a service with the mission of helping families unpack politics together. Natalia heard about it on The Ezra Klein Show, one of her favorite podcasts. On their website, Unboxing America had dozens of issue boxes to choose from—even some that were new to Natalia, like CONTROLLING 5G—and promised to regularly add more options. Natalia opened the box and pulled out a set of activity books for herself and her parents, as well as a “manual” with a balanced set of facts about democratic-socialism for them to go through together. Unboxing America encourages families to write down and discuss any points where they want to dispute the manual, as well as reach out to the company
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