can and somebody will, y'know?  But I don't see it.  It's just a top-down structure, it's a soft-money conduit, and, y'know, and like Nancy Pelosi, she's gonna lose the election again, and it's just like, what's the definition of insanity?  Doing the same thing—wrong, wrong thing—over and over again.  Republicans, they have a real big demographic problem, because they're the party of old white people, and they're not reaching out to folks." - Meaning and context.">
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Yeah, I was a Democrat for about four or five years—active Democrat—and I thought I could reform the party; maybe I wasn't going about it right, maybe somebody can and somebody will, y'know?  But I don't see it.  It's just a top-down structure, it's a soft-money conduit, and, y'know, and like Nancy Pelosi, she's gonna lose the election again, and it's just like, what's the definition of insanity?  Doing the same thing—wrong, wrong thing—over and over again.  Republicans, they have a real big demographic problem, because they're the party of old white people, and they're not reaching out to folks.

— Krist Novoselic

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Yeah, I was a Democrat for about four or five years—active Democrat—and I thought I could reform the party; maybe I wasn't going about it right, maybe somebody can and somebody will, y'know?  But I don't see it.  It's just a top-down structure, it's a soft-money conduit, and, y'know, and like Nancy Pelosi, she's gonna lose the election again, and it's just like, what's the definition of insanity?  Doing the same thing—wrong, wrong thing—over and over again.  Republicans, they have a real big demographic problem, because they're the party of old white people, and they're not reaching out to folks." in the context of "20:00–20:38" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Source: Wikiquote: "Krist Novoselic" (Quotes, "Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems": Krist Novoselic, interviewed by Nick Gillespie, "Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems", ReasonTV (19 June 2014)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Krist Novoselic

About Krist Novoselic

Krist Anthony Novoselic II (16 May 1965 – present) is an American rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana.  Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC (Joint Artists and Musicians Political Action Committee).  Since 2008 he has been board chair of the electoral reform organization FairVote.