About this episode
Today is a special US presidential election edition of Factual America . Americans are heading to the polls. Will they re-elect Donald Trump? Or will they opt for a change and vote for Joe Biden? We can’t say either way with any certainty. What we can say is that America is a polarised society. And whatever the result, the politics of division are here to stay, so it seems. That division and polarisation are captured brilliantly in Boys State , the Sundance Jury Prize Winner from filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss. The documentary shows what would happen if you put a thousand teenage boys together and put them in charge of the political landscape of America. Despite the hand-me-down politics of their parents and grandparents, can a bunch of Texas teenage boys provide hope and point the way ahead? We found out when we caught up recently with Amanda and Jesse from their home in California. “It’s a little bit like the Stanford Prison Experiment, but for the Government.” – Jesse Moss